Rick Sammon

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Digital Darkroom
Playing With Pixels
Add Motion To Stills
Rick Sammon  |  Feb 01, 2001

I'm a still photographer: I shoot only still pictures. Video? It's cool, but I like to capture individual "frozen moments in time." However, I often like to convey action--and the grace of a moving subject--in my still...

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Digital Darkroom
Playing With Pixels
Adding Speed, Motion, And Excitement To Photos
Rick Sammon  |  Dec 01, 1999

Want to add some pizzazz to your existing photos? One way to accomplish this goal is to create the feeling or impression that a still subject is moving. With Adobe Photoshop, it's relatively easy. Here's how to do it.

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Digital Darkroom
Playing With Pixels
Adding, Changing, And Jazzing Up Color
Rick Sammon  |  Jun 01, 2001

As photographers,
we love to photograph colorful subjects. We sometimes travel to exotic
locations to photograph people dressed in colorful garments and costumes.
We frame brightly painted buildings in our viewfinders. We focusou...

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Digital Darkroom
Playing With Pixels
Cool Tools For Hot Pix
Rick Sammon  |  Sep 01, 2000

Hi there, thanks
for checking out Playing With Pixels. This time around we'll take a quick
look at some of the cool tools in Adobe Photoshop that can help improve
your images--and your image among your photo pals. Don't havePhoto...

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Wildlife
Playing With Pixels
Digital Imaging And The Wildlife Photographer
Rick Sammon  |  Mar 01, 2000

Just a few years ago, serious wildlife photographers would not be caught dead without a set of telephoto lenses, camera supports, a selection of medium speed and fast films, polarizing and warming filters, flash with a flash extender, and perhaps a...

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Digital Darkroom
Playing With Pixels
Experimenting Opens Up A New World Of Creativity
Rick Sammon  |  Apr 01, 2000

Someday, when you are sitting at your computer and have nothing to do, open a picture in your photo imaging program and try this: go to Filters and apply each and every filter to that picture. You may find that some filters make your picture look worse...

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Digital Darkroom
Playing With Pixels
Make A Digital Montage
Rick Sammon  |  Apr 01, 2001

The photo montage--a
picture or several pictures within a picture--has been around for decades.
In the 1930s, for example, famed Harlem photographer James Van Der Zee
created montages in camera and in the darkroom. His mostfamous...

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Digital Darkroom
Playing With Pixels
The Digital Darkroom, Changing The Way We Take And Make Pictures
Rick Sammon  |  Oct 01, 2001

One of the coolest things about digital imaging is that it has changed the way we take and make pictures. Big time!

I experience this almost every time I shoot. Knowing that an...

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Outdoor/Travel
Post Cards From The Freezer; Photographing Antarctica Digitally
Rick Sammon  |  Aug 01, 2006

"Antarctica is a separate world...it is the presence of ice, from the first occasional fragment, escalating in shape, form and frequency, and finally dominating all else, that brings assurance of arrival in Antarctica."--Mark Jones, from Wild Ice: Antarctic Journeys (available on Amazon.com)

Taking pictures in Antarctica is easy. Point your camera...

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Outdoor/Travel
Post Cards From The Land Of The Thunder Dragon; Bhutan’s Buddhist Culture Is A Draw For Travel Photographers
Rick Sammon  |  Oct 01, 2006

Compose your scenes carefully, and the pictures you take today in Bhutan will not look that different from the ones you might have taken 100 years ago in another life (Buddhists believe in reincarnation). Walk through the dzongs (temple/fortress), experience a festival, hike to a remote location in the Himalayas. With a little imagination, and if you turn off your satellite phone...

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