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As a forum member who limits their contributions to the stuff in my head and not my wallet, I don't have access to the Private discussion and chat functions here. But @hark was kind enough to forward me a screen shot of the kinds words folks posted when I reached 5000 posts the other day, and I...

Those of you who have been around here for a while know that I've been flipping through various handles within watermarks and whatnot, looking to eventually establish a company name to do business under. It was always going to be Backdoor Hippie Photography, but as I started talking to people...

Saw on another forum that Google has released Nik Analog Efex Pro 2. Normally this is supposed to update automatically, but this never seems to happen for me so I just downloaded and installed the new version. The interesting thing is that I now have both Analog Efex Pro and Analog Efex Pro 2...

@DaveW, I know you use an Epson R2000 at home. I've got one and am starting to print some stuff for a gallery (first run) and I'm finding I need to do a considerable amount of lighting adjustments from my screen to what I'm seeing on the printer. In my testing it seems that if I do a Levels...

I'm an amateur photographer with a good job, a great wife, and no kids. I should save more money than I do, but I love stuff, and I'm really bad at denying myself a toy when I have a serious urge to try something. After reading this, I'm thinking that I need to replace my passion for gear with...

OK, so I was taking a picture this morning, a picture I'd done before and one that I'd planned and set up for - a chess board taken from above and lit from the sides. The one thing I didn't do, even though I thought in advance that I should, was once again take into account that I needed the...

With the myriad, "Is this dust or oil?" and "How do I clean my sensor?", questions that pop up here I was thinking about putting together a post on how to best avoid getting your sensor dirty. And while I may still do that, this post from Digital Camera is a good start to learning how to best...

onOne Perfect Effects 8 is once again being offered for free. This is a standalone piece of software that can also be invoked directly from LR/PS/PSE. It's got some outstanding filters in there, including an extremely effective texture tool. Their somewhat inappropriately named Dynamic...

I met with a gallery yesterday that would like to try and sell my work (yay, I think). To start they're asking for 3 framed prints to hang, and 10 loose prints to put in rack displays. The prints they have now are 5x7's and 8x12's matted on a thin white mat with a similar back and stuffed in...

I'd always heard that you don't need to worry too much about hackers and Macs, but it would seem that somehow someone hacked into my United Airlines frequent flier account. I barely use it anymore, and only used it recently to fly to FL and back, and to the best of my recollection the only...

I've been meaning to ask this for a while, and I understand the amount of time put in by the moderators on this forum already, so please know that I fully understand your time constraints and limitations. With that in mind, given the thought, time and effort that many forum members put into the...

Seems like wud let a month slip by, so before we run out of April, and because I like this idea so much, post your favorite shot taken in March of this year (then start thinking about your favorite for this month)... Here's mine. For all the abstracts I took and enjoyed, my favorite is the...

I updated my iphone's Flickr app last Friday. I don't remember receiving any kind of notification about this, but imagine my shock when I went to my Flickr page this morning and saw 20 photos taken with my iphone over the weekend, all uploaded immediately after I took them with no notification...

I thought about whether or not to post these in the HDR Challenge but decided to do this separately so as not to clog up the thread. In that thread I challenged folks to try different edits with a 3 shot exposure bracket series (see the challenge thread for the originals). One of the edits I'd...

Earlier today I posted a Tutorial about how to extract all the Dynamic Range you can from a photograph. In it, I questioned whether or not the dynamic range of the current array of Nikon sensors has eliminated the need to use HDR techniques in many cases since the sensors store enough light...

Do You Really Need HDR When Your Sensor Already Has High Dynamic Range? Scott had posted a thread called "Why HDR?!" earlier this week with a really fine example of how HDR photography can really change what you see in a photograph. I am by no means an anti-HDR person, in fact I used to shoot...

Something to aspire to for all of us who have ever stuck a 9-10 stop ND filter on our cameras. Thinking about maybe picking up a second. The Ethereal Long Exposure Photography of Darren Moore | Colossal https://www.flickr.com/photos/61094835@N07/

Canon Reportedly Charges Customers for Repair of Flawed Lenses With Known Issues - The Phoblographer My brother just paid $400 because his 5D got water damage in a situation that should have been no sweat for most DSLR's. I'm wondering if it's one of those unacknowledged problems?

Just got word from my brother that he's on his way out. I'm leaving lots of details out, but what's not mentioned in this NYTimes article is that while 40% of the newsroom staff is gone, 8 of the 10 full time photographers were let go, including my brother who had 19 years, one East Coast...