Can you believe the wealth of information you can get from randomly browsing through peoples blogs? Well today I stumbled upon a website that will forever change the way I approach studio lighting. It has always seemed that studio lighting was the secret sauce that separated the novice from the pros. There were many occasions where I would see great lighting and wonder how it was pulled off. Now the secret of the sauce is out the packet.

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Shoot Baby is giving away a newborn baby posing ottoman. So anyone who is serious about taking newborn baby photos should definitely enter the contest. But then again, if you were really serious about newborn baby photos, then you would already have one wouldn’t you? Regardless, go to Inspire Me Baby and follow the rules and instructions. The contest ends on February 14th so take out that butt plug and get going.

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Mike Curtis from Macworld.com gives a very interesting tutorial on how to combine HDR photos with time lapse. What you get is a time lapse movie with vibrant details. HDR stands for high-dynamic-range, and is the ability for a image to show a high amount of detail in both shadows and highlights of a photo. So take a photo with a regular point and shoot during late afternoon, and you will either have a blown out sky, or black silhouettes. In order to bring out the details, then you’ll need to use a technique called HDR photography.

Watch Mike Curtis’s Video, it’s very hypnotizing.

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A lot of the portfolio sites I see today uses Flash technologies to display their works in a more interactive environment. In the past, if you wanted cool animations and effects on your site, you would need flash to do this. An HTML site was usually static, and having cool effects were hard to achieve. The pros of having a flash site is that it is compatible across multiple browsers, and you can achieve awesome animated effects. The con of having a Flash based site is that it has very poor SEO capabilities, and for any struggling photographer, having more eyes on your portfolio increases the potential for gaining more clients. So to summarize, Flash looks great but your marketing potential becomes greatly reduced.

So the only option would be to create a HTML based site, so all your content can be indexed by the search engines. But you no longer have to worry about the blandness of HTML, because since jQuery has been in wide use, there are tons of fantastic jQuery photo galleries created that will give your site the “Flashiness” it craves for.

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In the digital age where we are flooded by endless amounts of meaningless photos, all thanks to camera phones and digital cameras, every now and then we are confronted with an image that truly moves us. Well what kind of image is more moving than a person photographing his killer seconds before he gets murdered.

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In order to promote the Intel Core i5 Processor, the company has released a promotional film demonstrating its capabilities. I haven’t kept track of processor speeds since the Dual Core Processors came out, and so the Intel Core i5 Processor really doesn’t mean much to me. But what does impress me is the creativity put into the film.

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With the year 2010 ended, I thought I would take this opportunity to share some important SEO tips.

If you aren’t aware of it, SEO is short for Search Engine Optimization, which is necessary for anyone planning on doing internet marketing. Every site online is given a page rank by the search engines, and that page rank will determine how high the search engines should display your link. The goal is to have your page display on top of the first page whenever someone types in your keyword. So now that you have some background on the subject let’s get started with some seo tips.

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At a quick glance you might think “That’s a nice little portrait, and the chick doesn’t look too bad either”. Well, if you completely ignored the title, then that is a CGI women you are looking at. Lately, I’ve been seeing a bunch of these photorealistic CGI People, which probably couldn’t be done 10 years ago. When I was in Highschool I was lucky to take a class in computer graphics, so I know the difficulty to pull off a photorealistic person. There’s little nuances with the human face, and if it is even a tiny bit off, then the brain can easily detect that something is wrong.

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The only way to really experience a photo is by viewing it in Black and White. Once you strip a photo of it’s distracting colors, you will be left with wonderful lights and textures. I’m not saying that all photos should be black and white, because colors has their place, but there are qualities that exist in black and whites photos that make them absolutely beautiful.

Below is part 1 of a 2 part series that displays amazing black and white photos that will be sure to inspire your brains out.
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A little animated short that tugged on my heart strings. Enjoy

Thought of You from Ryan J Woodward on Vimeo.

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