December 29, 2009

In This eNewsletter:

How-To – Make Your Computer Ready For Digital Photography

Industry Perspective – The “Photo Enthusiast” Market is Growing and More Enthusiastic than Ever

What's New This Month – Leaf, Lensbaby, Adobe, Gitzo, and Sigma

How-To – Crop & Frame For Impact

How-To – Digital Photography In Black And White

Vote! – Comment briefly on your airline travel camera packing strategy.

Workshops – Learn and Show

Shutterbug Forums – Your Photo & Digital Imaging Source

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Make Your Computer Ready For Digital Photography
Bypass The “Default Demons”
by David B. Brooks

If you have recently purchased a new computer, whether a PC with Windows or an Apple Mac, is it really ready for use as a digital darkroom, to support opening, processing and editing or printing digital photographs? With rare exception the answer to that question is a resounding NO.

The reason is simple. Although digital photography has increased in popularity in recent years and many computers are purchased with making photos in mind, personal computers are still made and sold for general home/office use. They are, if at all, set up when delivered to provide typical, general functioning, what in the industry is described as being set at “default” values.
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Crop & Frame For Impact
Find The Shot Within The Shot
by Jack Neubart

The moment you use the camera’s viewfinder to look at a subject, you are framing that subject. In essence, you are isolating that subject from the larger world surrounding it. And you are bringing the viewer into the scene you’ve defined in a way that focuses attention on that subject. It also means that at the same time you are framing the scene in the viewfinder, you are cropping out extraneous pieces of visual information. By that we mean you are getting rid of any peripheral visual elements that do not contribute to—or say something about—the subject (or center of interest) or the visual statement you wish to make.
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Digital Photography In Black And White
Seeing In Grayscale Tones
by George Schaub

Somehow, we accept black and white as quite natural, as a fair and reasonable representation of what we have photographed. But it is hardly that—the world is filled with color in all its hue and shades, from the brilliant azure blue of the tropical sea to the rich red of a rose. Yet, a black and white photo can be more evocative and emotional than the same scene in color. It can reveal the detail, design and texture of a subject or scene in a more powerful way, as if color is a distraction from what really stands before our lens.
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The “Photo Enthusiast” Market is Growing and More Enthusiastic than Ever
by Ron Leach, Publisher

Two leading industry organizations recently combined forces to release an interesting joint study on the status of the “photo enthusiast” market in the United States. PMA and Future Image, Inc. have concluded that the advanced amateur category—or photo enthusiast group—has doubled over the past decade as the transition from film to digital photography took place.
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