How to take great group photos
August 14th, 2010
I was searching some material about group photography when I found this article on the digital photography school webiste. It quickly shows how great group photos can be made.
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Inverting photos in Lightroom
February 28th, 2010
I started to convert some of my old 35mm negatives into digital images. Just as a test I stuck a negative on the window and made a picture of it using my 5D. Then the trouble started, Lightroom does not have a “invert colours” option. Lucky for me I found a website with a handy preset which does the trick. Keep in mind that all your sliders invert as well. This means that if you want to make your picture brighter you should lower the aperture slider.
78 Photography rules for complete idiots
September 11th, 2009
Gawno.com has a really interesting article on their website. It is called “78 photography rules for complete idiots” which visually shows a lot of do’s and dont’s in the world of photography. Really interesting for starters, mind refreshing for the novice.
(c) gawno.com
Canon’s wedding photography masterclass
September 1st, 2009
If you are new into wedding photography this could be something for you. Canon uploaded a master class about wedding photography to their website. It gives you insight in the world of wedding photographer Jeff Ascough who takes wedding pictures since 1994.
Canon's website
Optimizing Adobe Lightroom
August 3rd, 2009
Macperformanceguide.com posted a really interesting article about how to optimize your Adobe Lightroom performance. It turns out for example that when exporting 100 images, you can better export 50 images twice since Adobe Lightroom starts to process them in parallel. More tips can be found in the original article.
Optimization chart (image from macperformanceguide.com)
Example model release forms
June 23rd, 2009
It might be the case that you are going to do some more professional photography. In this case it is useful to have a contract telling you and your model what you can and can’t with the photos. These contracts are so called “model release forms”. Yuri Arcurs was kind enough to share some example contracts which can be found on his website.
contract example (taken from Yuri Arcurs website)
Online tilt-shift tool
May 30th, 2009
Tilt-shifting is a special photography technique, which requires special lenses. If used a “normal” picture looks like as if it has been taken in a miniature world. Now there is an online tool, called TiltShiftMaker which can create these images artificially. You simple upload your picture, adjust the parameters and download your own tilt shifted picture 
TiltShifting a picture of mine
Tilt-shift example
Backstage in a stock photographers’ studio
May 25th, 2009
Yuri Arcurs gives us a guided tour through his photo studio. The video gives you a very good impression about the studio of a stock photographer.
Yuri Arcurs showing around
How to develop film using coffee and vitamin C
March 27th, 2009
