2010 May | The Digital Photo Experience

5.18.10: Tuesday’s Talented Twitter Find – Mike Bright

May 18, 2010

Hey Gang, We have a cool weekly feature here on DPE: Tuesday’s Talented Twitter Find. Each Tuesday I choose a photographer who I find on Twitter who is . . . well, talented! I find ‘em by reading an interesting tweet and then by clicking on his or her web site. This week’s Talented Twitter [...]

The Edge of Light: What about the shadow…?

By Eddie Tapp

May 18, 2010

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As a professional photographer, I sometimes look for the shadow before anything else especially when shooting a product or portrait. I’ve had clients ask me if I could get rid of the shadow. My first though is why didn’t I use a flash on camera, actually my first thought is “are you kidding…? Shadow creates [...]

The Edge of Light: Be the chip

By Eddie Tapp

May 17, 2010

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Seeing light and transforming this visual awareness into how the digital chip will see light is something we learn from experience. Consider the ingredients that will determine this from your camera’s settings (My Menu or Picture Style etc.) where you establish the contrast, sharpness, saturation, color tone, filter effect and even color space for a [...]

Maybe See You Out West

By Rick Sammon

May 17, 2010

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Hey Gang – I’ll be in Arches, Bryce and Zion May 30 to June 6 – leading my landscape photography workshop. If you spot our group, please say hi. I’ll be the dude in the black hat. We’ll be shooting from dawn to dusk – following my tip: You snooze you lose! I’ll try to [...]

Finding your Creative / DPE LIVE Podcast Episode #4 May 11, 2010

By Juan Pons

May 17, 2010

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“Finding your Creative” DPE LIVE event, featuring Eddie Tapp (http://www.eddietapp.com), Rob Sheppard (http://www.robsheppardphoto.com) and Judy Host (http://www.judyhost.com/), they answered questions on learning to see creatively submitted by YOU, plus, as always provided lots of useful information on being creative with your photography! The next DPE LIVE event is scheduled for June 13th at 8:00pm EST [...]

The Edge of Light: I can see the light…!

By Eddie Tapp

May 16, 2010

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[Editors Note: This week we have Eddie Tapp on a weeklong series titled "The Edge of Light" which is a series of articles on seeing light. We'll have one article day starting today Sunday, and continuing all the way thru Saturday!] We’ve all heard the phrase “See The Light” which takes on the meaning of [...]

DPE Flickr Pool Favorites for May 15th

By Juan Pons

May 16, 2010

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As always the 15th of the month is a special day around DPE, and one of those things that makes the 15th special is that we get to announce our favorite images from the DPE Flickr Pool. And this months picks are: Congratulations to Talke Photography & Jan! If you would like to enter for [...]

What Does Your Photography Mean To You?

By Rick Sammon

May 16, 2010

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Images Copyright Rick Sammon. All rights reserved. Left: Original image. Right: Midnight Filter in Nik Color Efex Pro. This is a joint post along with a post on my personal blog. I’m posting it in two places because I am trying to generate as many responses as possible to the question below. The Nik Summit [...]

Palm Springs Photo Festival / DPE Podcast Episode #12 May 15, 2010

By Juan Pons

May 15, 2010

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Rick recently attended the Palm Springs Photo Festival and while he was there he took the opportunity to interview a whole bunch of the other instructors, in this episode of DPE we have interviews with Vincent Laforet, Canon’s Tim Smith and Marshall Electronics’ Bernie Keach. However we start off the podcast answering a whole bunch [...]

Mixing Brush Madness

By Randy Jay Braun

May 14, 2010

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Upon opening my new box of Adobe PS5, I jumped right in to explore the new tools. My instant favorite is the wet mixing bristle brush. Using the wet mixing brushes is like putting “liquify-warp-smudge” on steroids. I hastily made a couple of images into “paintings”, as I toyed around with the new PS5 settings. [...]