Monthly Archives: April 2010

3 New Favorite iPhone apps for Photographers

The world of iPhone apps for photographers continues to expand and innovate beyond anything I could have imagined just a few short years ago. I recently shared my 5 favorite iPhone apps for photographers. I’ve since discovered the following 3 new photography apps that just blew me away: The Photographer’s Ephemeris – I’ve been looking…

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HDR Photography Processing – Macro Example

It seems the most popular HDR photos are taken by travel photographers who have the luxury to travel around the world to exotic places. HDR Macro photography is great way for hobbyists to create interesting HDR photos that rival the travel HDR shots without requiring a extensive travel budget and in most cases without having…

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How to make your own iPad wallpaper background

[updated 7/16/2011] The Apple iPad has landed! The feature that amazes everyone is the iPad’s vivid LED-backlit IPS display which makes an awesome platform to show off your favorite photographs. Another exciting feature is the ability to customize the iPad wallpaper background. At launch of the iPad 1, the default background on the iPad has some…

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Lightroom 3 Beta 2 – Hobbyist Review Part 2

It has been a few weeks since I posted Part 1 of my Lightroom 3 Beta 2 Review and a few things have changed. Adobe has released Camera Raw 5.7 beta which fixes the issues I was having when editing in Photoshop and Apple released Aperture 3.0.2 with many fixes. After finding out Aperture 3.0.2 had several…

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Creative Commons a Hobbyist Photographer Perspective

I’m a hobbyist photographer who is not seeking to make a primary income with my images rather I enjoy posting and sharing my images with others for the love of photography and not so much for monetary gain. Sure, I wouldn’t hesitate to accept a nice license deal of one of my images but its…

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