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Flashlight Fill - B/W HDR

Another Gallery of My Nighttime HDR using Flashlight Fill My recent projects have included a series of nightscapes. The existing lighting in these images has been augmented with light painted into each scene using simple flashlight lighting techniques. NOTICE: [...]

Freedom of Speech - In Jeopardy

Photography plays a huge roll in exposing deception, revealing truth, recording our progress and influencing our future. Photography is a voice! Our future, our environment, our government, our well being will depend on our ability as photographers, artists [...]

Shaped Bokeh

Shaped Bokeh can easily be created by either cutting out a shape from a piece of black material such as paper, purchasing pre-made shaped filters, or by finding items with odd shaped holes. The images above were all produced from cutouts or from found "hole " [...]

Money V Art V Self

Money V Art V Self Your photo work is not a competition. It seems that there are tons of photography competitions being held today. Each one is a promise of some sort that many will see your work and the rewards of submission are also favorable. However, there [...]

Inspiration - Baldessari

Here is a fun video of the artist and photographer John Baldessari. [...]

Mastering Light through the Lens of Psychology: When Left Dominates Right

Zen in the Art of Photography

"When we can see, there is an infinity, whole galaxies, cosmos of pictures around us. . . . If one is missed, another will come along as sure as day follows night. "                    - Robert [...]

Great Photo Auction

Notice: The images in the gallery above as well as the names listed are samples of past contributors. The 2012 works will be available for preview on March 20.   Visual Studies Workshop's Annual Auction:   Visual Studies Workshop [...]

F295 Symposium: Further Explorations on the Idea of a 21st Century Photography

Announcing the 2012 F295 Symposium!  Continued Explorations of a 21st Century Photography June 7-10, 2012 | Pittsburgh PA USA We are pleased to announce that on June 7-10, 2012 F295will hold its 5th Symposium and 10th event! Over the past 5 [...]

The World's Most beautiful Chamois by Bruno D'Amicis

One of the many things I have enjoyed when giving talks in the US is enthusiasm. If you are a 'doer' then people appreciate it. There is that “can do” attitude – something, in fact, shared by my many Italian friends who always [...]

Top 10 or so…Photobooks, Photography Books and Photo Books of 2011

Top 10 or so…Photobooks, Photography Books and Photo Books of 2011 This may not be a complete list of Best Photo Books for the year 2011, but it certainly shows a broad range of great books chosen by a variety of sources. Links: Our Top Ten Photo [...]

Rethinking Digital Photography

The Gallery above shows images that were created using a few of the playful techniques detailed in the book. All images in the gallery are copyright John Neel. Open your eyes and RETHINK DIGITAL! Rethinking Digital Photography is not your average digital [...]

After 9/11 - Nathan's Book

After 9/11 - Nathan Lyons In light of a dark moment! "This is a beautifully designed book of photographs that reflect the many different ways people have expressed their sorrow of the 9/11 tragedy and their pride as Americans. The photographs are presented in [...]

How to Get Your Book Published

When I first thought of publishing a book I had no idea how to get it published.  I knew I had a great concept for a photo/inspirational book and that I could shoot powerful photographs, but with no experience I felt it would be an uphill battle.  I [...]

Blurb & Lightroom

Blurb have announced a new plugin for Lightroom that allows you to export images into Bookify books. With the plugin you can  Flow edited Lightroom images into Bookify™ (their online tool for simple photo books). Choose your book's layout and style [...]