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Learning Adobe Lightroom–Foto Friday

I’ve recently got a copy of Adobe Lightroom version 3 and have determined to learn more about it and how to use it so I can expand what Jenn and I offer you, our readers.  For those who don’t know, Lightroom is, in my mind, an amalgam of various different Adobe products and concept rolled up into a product that can form the basis
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Virtual Camera Revisited – Foto Friday

As I look back on the digital photography class we just taught, one of the hardest concepts for the students to grasp and master is how the 3 pieces of the exposure triangle affect one another.   If only I had a… virtual camera – that would show the results of increasing the ISO, lower the shutter speed or changing the f/stop.  Now  I’ve
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Add Fun to Your Next Group Picture – Foto Friday

As Jenn mentioned in her last blog post, we just finished a 6 week course on basic digital photography at our local community college. While it’s always great to teach the exposure triangle, indoor and outdoor lighting tips and how to store and mange your pictures, we always leave the last class for a little clean-up of topics not covered and also a little
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The Miracle of Photography-NOT!–Foto Friday

Photography has been used since it’s start to challenge and change our minds, show the beauty around us, document everyday and world changing events. (See my earlier post on the power of photography.)  And of course it’s been used in advertising. I just wish it hadn’t been used for this advertising…. I assembled these album covers of questionable taste from a variety of sources
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I’m ready for my Closeup – Foto Friday

Want to play a little game? These are all extreme close-ups of common daily objects. While we’ve written about macro photography before, these are beyond what we can capture with our cameras and are actually done under a scanning electron microscope. Some of them are beautiful too. Get the answer to what it is by hovering your mouse over a picture. Fun huh? Did
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