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Choosing Your Photography Portfolio Website

One of the most important marketing tools for photographers today is a well-designed photography portfolio website (see also Two Basic Steps to Promote Yourself as a Photographer). You can be taking the most amazing pictures with the world’s best camera, but if no one knows about you and your images (your brand), then all the time you have invested into photography is without much purpose…

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Photographing Close to Home

The Craft & Vision team has released yet another beautifully designed eBook today. Close To Home (Finding Great Photographs in Your Own Backyard) is the latest in the Craft & Vision eBook line-up. This inspiring ebook by Stuart Sipahigil is about the challenges of finding the extraordinary in what we’ve come to see as mundane…

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15 Fine Flickr Examples of Minimalism in Photography

Minimalist photography emphasizes simplicity and objectivity and in essence minimalism is where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features. Minimalist photography is a truly beautiful genre and many people might be surprised about how difficult it actually is to capture a successful minimalist image that works…

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Catching Up After an Unwelcome Break

Mon Dieu! Usually I enjoy every day, I think we should, but really I wouldn’t have minded doing a time-warp that had skipped the last 5-6 weeks altogether. I didn’t manage to write a single entry for the blog, let alone make any new photographs. After going through a period of extreme stress in August my immune system decided to let its guard down…

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How to do Advanced Toning in Photoshop CS4 – Part Two

In many cases you can add a touch of sophistication to your monochrome images by adding some subtle toning. Often toning your monochrome images can also help you emphasize a particular mood or feeling in your images. This four-part series on advanced toning will show you how…

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How to do Advanced Toning in Photoshop CS4 – Part One

In many cases you can add a touch of sophistication to your monochrome images by adding some subtle toning. Often toning your monochrome images can also help you emphasize a particular mood or feeling in your images. This four-part series on advanced toning will show you how…

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Photos 1440

“There are 1440 minutes in a day. In these minutes photographers capture a moment. These moments make up a day which lasts forever.” This was the introduction to a recent exhibition held at the State Library of New South Wales where I have also had the pleasure to give a presentation of some of my own photography…

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Thousands of People Find Spencer Tunick’s Photography More Gimmick Than Art

In March 2010, as part of the Mardi Gras festival in Sydney, Australia, more than 5000 people stripped down for the official shot by the American photographer Spencer Tunick. Tunick said the aim was to create a human base for the Sydney Opera House, but an article in the Sydney Morning Herald today discusses whether Tunick was successful or not…

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Chasing Reflections by Eli Reinholdtsen

The team at Craft & Vision has released a new eBook titled Chasing Reflections by Eli Reinholdtsen and this one I’ve really been looking forward to with great anticipation. Chasing Reflections is the third in the series ‘The Print & The Process’. Eli Reinholdtsen is a creative photographer who, through her unique and skillful approach to reflections, captures moments and juxtapositions that are truly an art form at its finest…

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