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David duChemin Interview // Podcast

June 4, 2010

A few weeks ago I had the privilege of interviewing renown photographer and all around good guy David duChemin. David came to my attention when he released his acclaimed book, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision. If you have not yet read this book, make sure to go and grab a copy, I [...]

Rick’s Southwest Photo Caravan: Process Day

By Rick Sammon

June 3, 2010

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Rick’s Southwest Photo Caravan: Process Day

We are 1/2 though our photo caravan. Everyone is getting great images. We spent some time today processing our images. Here is a 4-image, hand-held pano I created in CS5 using Photomerge. Back to shooting tonight and tomorrow. Explore the light, Rick P.S. Shoot Juan an email at email hidden; JavaScript is required /* */ [...]

Rick’s Southwest Photo Caravan: Day 5

By Rick Sammon

June 3, 2010

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We arrived at Bryce Canyon, Utah late yesterday afternoon. We shot for a while and then hit the sack early – because we got up at 4:30 AM today to catch the sunrise. Getting up early paid off! Today’s tip: Shoot HDR when shooting into the sun. For the top shot, my exposures were: EV0, [...]

Rick’s South West Caravan: Day 4

By Rick Sammon

June 2, 2010

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Here’s a shot from today’s first location: Dead Horse Point State Park , UT. Today’s tip: Keep your sensor clean, especially when working in dusty conditions. Always keep a sensor cleaning kit with you! I took this shot with my Canon 15mm lens on my Canon 5D Mark II. I also shot a pano with [...]

Autoexposure and Ansel Adams

By Rob Sheppard

June 2, 2010

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What if I told you autoexposure could bring you closer to the way that Ansel Adams shot? How could that be? I can tell you it works, so read on. And I challenge those manual exposure diehards to open their minds a little and see what is possible here. First, some perspective. In brief, Ansel [...]

Rick’s Southwest Photo Caravan: Day 3/Travel Day

By Rick Sammon

June 2, 2010

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Today we leave Arches for Bryce. We’ll stop at Dead Horse Point State Park on the way. Because we have a five-hour dive, I will not have time to post the Dead Horse Point pictures, so I’m posting a pictures that I took on the way from Vegas to Arches. We’ll be stopping at this [...]

6.1.10 Tuesday’s Talented Twitter Find: Darrell Davis

By Rick Sammon

June 1, 2010

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6.1.10 Tuesday’s Talented Twitter Find: Darrell Davis

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 Seven Wonders of Photoshop CS5 / DPE Podcast June 1, 2010

By Juan Pons

June 1, 2010

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As I am sure the vast majority of you know, Adobe recently released their newest version of their creative suite including Photoshop CS5. This new version of photoshop brings an unprecedented number of new and “magical” features. Juan and Rick talk about their favorite 7 new features which we have dubbed “The Seven Wonders of [...]

Rick’s Southwest Caravan: Day 2

By Rick Sammon

June 1, 2010

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I think there were 87 people in this scene when I took a series of three images for my HDR image of Double Arch in Arches National Park, Utah. Photomatix did a great job “crunching” the images. And . . . Photoshop CS5 ‘s Content Aware Fill did an amazing job removing the people, most [...]