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I had an email from a friend recently asking how I keep my files organized. With the coming of the new year, what better time to look at the system you use to manage your images and see if there might be a better way.
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Well, here it is Christmas day, and I'm working on holiday cards. I'm not normally a procrastinator, but I always seem to be doing these at the last minute. This season, though, I'm getting it done much faster and more economically, and they look better too.
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Most of the time we keep an eye on the shutter speed to make sure we don't get blurry photos. Occasionally, though, we're watching the shutter speed to make SURE we get blurry photos.
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I'm just back from leading a photo trek to Maui for American Photo (http://www.mentorseries.com). I do about four trips a year like this, and we had just over thirty people joining us. The second day we spent driving and shooting along the road to Hana, and after dinner that night most of us headed to the beach for a little light painting.
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Last year while shooting winter photos in Yosemite National Park, Nick Didlick (a friend and Blue Pixel Associate) came up with a unique (and low-cost) way of shooting time exposures. I was reminded of that recently when I needed to do the same thing, and didn't have a cable release.
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When it comes to photography, people always want to talk cameras and lenses. Yes, they're important (and I like to talk about them too), but one tool that doesn't get enough chat time is tripods.
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I recently went to a friend's wedding and took along a little point-and-shoot I could carry in my pocket. When it was all over I had a nice set of photos, and wanted to share them with the family. Rather than send a bunch of small prints, I wanted to give them one large print to commemorate the day. My favorite way of doing this is by using the Free Transform tool in Photoshop, and this can be done with either full-blown Photoshop or Photoshop Elements (I used version 4).
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Occasionally we at Blue Pixel find ourselves being interviewed and written about, which was recently the case for myself and Alex Stevens.
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Its a phrase we all know about that indicates you're in danger, and something that came to mind during a trip I just returned from.
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For the past several months I've been buried with projects, and junk has piled up in my home office. Add to that I've needed to make some major computer and networking changes, and that means it's time for a major office overhaul.
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