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.
Photography
Adobe Lightroom
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
External links, Photography
Photography, tips
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
Photography
Photography, tutorial
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)
Photography, Software
Adobe Lightroom
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)
Photography
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
Photography
tiltshift
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
Photography
backstage, stock photo, studio
A week ago I received a link to this blog which shows you how to develop film using coffee and vitamin C. Pretty weird, but it seems to work great 
Photography
DIY, film, howto, Photography
