Weekly Photography Links: 04/09/2010

April 9, 2010 @ 9:45AM

Weekly Photography Links: 04/09/2010

By Damien Franco

Discovered Photography

feature shoot has a nice collection of images and a short piece on New York street photographer Robert Herman.

New York Portraits has a nice collection of images showing NYPD and their horses.

I’m sensing a theme here. I’ve had aspirations of moving to New York lately and this stuff isn’t really helping at all.

You really can tell this couple still loves each other even after being married 60 years. Amazing photographs of L.O.V.E.

MOMA + Henri Cartier-Bresson = Perfection!

In the Photoblogosphere

ADIDAP is giving away a Smugmug Pro account.

CreativeLIVE is a website where you can learn photography through internet courses from some of the leading Internet Photography Celebrities for free!. I highly recommend checking it out and virtually attending some of these courses.

Love the idea behind macro photography but don’t have the cash for the expensive lighting equipment? Weekly Photo Tips has a great video on a DIY Macro Photography Lighting Kit. Nice.

Have you noticed a shift or change in the modern trends of Landscape Photography?

Motivation is knowing what comprises the craft of photography. 50% in camera and 50% in software?..not how I wish it was, but it may be how it is.

Photo Gear

John Keatley reviews his Hasselblad H3II-31. W.A.N.T.

Post Processing

Image editing software like Adobe’s Lightroom isn’t just about editing your work or throwing your images in folders. It’s about making your life easier and getting work done faster. Smart Collections does exactly that.

If you still have yet to get your feet wet in Photoshop here’s a great tutorial for beginners. It’s simple but highly relevant.

Comments

Anonymous

1 year ago

50/50 seems excessive to me. I would argue a good photographer it's more like 80% camera/20% software. Sure you use software to "get the image you want" but if you're starting from crap you have a lot of work ahead of you... which I guess would make the 50/50 more of a reality. I am probably like 98/2 and that 2% is in DPP adjusting white balance and maybe lens distortion although I don't rely on that as much with new lens. Although I'm also not going out on photo shoots for 10s of thousands of dollars.

Still haven't messed with lightroom all that much (I use picasa since I just can't justify the $300 or whatever for lightroom, although people seem to really like it)