November 16th, 2008
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On Veterans Day, my class went downtown Riverside. It was deserted because of the holiday, but that suited our purposes.
For one thing, parking was easy to find and we didn’t have to pay the $1 an hour.
See the larger version of the pictures from our photowalk.
November 15th, 2008
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Before my class was cut lose to for their photowalk to see what they could find downtown Riverside, I helped them with their silhouette assignment.
We had already gone over the details but I felt they needed a little more guidance.
What is needed?
A bright background preferably relatively uncluttered.
A subject which is not well lit relative to [...]
November 4th, 2008
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Not one to watch too much tv, I recently came across this “Reality tv” show called “In Harm’s Way.” I’m not sure what the premise of the show is but this segment caught my attention.
I wondered to myself how could you concentrate on your task at hand–photography when you have a camera crew following you?
I’ve [...]
October 18th, 2008
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A bad economy and a presidential election coming to a close has way of pushing everything else into the background.
It’s to be expected then that even photographers feel they want to or can influence the outcome of important events like this Presidential election.
When I read about Canadian-born photographer Jill Greenberg and her portrait session with John [...]
October 17th, 2008
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Ask yourself these questions:
Will your present computer run Adobe’s Photoshop?
I’m going to assume you plan to edit your images and you’re using Adobe’s Photoshop CS3. If you haven’t bought this, just know at the time of writing this, Adobe just released the latest CS4 version. So dig into your computer’s documentation and look these up.
Mac users, minimum [...]