Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Can a photographer find happiness switching from Apple’s Mac OS X to Windows Vista? This photographer is going to find out in a controlled experiment. Yes, at Daylight Photo we still have our eight Mac machines up and running and that’s not going to change, at least not in the ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
I’d also be interested to hear how you got the effect in your Forgotten America photos… - Matthew Botos
This one's for you, Matthew (and everyone else, of course). I'd like to talk about how the Forgotten America series was created by using this image as an example.
This is ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Process your own black and white film
Today's video is something really different, we'll take a break from lighting this week and get back at it next Monday. It's fun to change things up, it keeps things interesting and it seemed like this video could fill a need.
There are a ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
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The past few weeks I’ve managed to get a quick video up on Thursday but this week we’ve been pressed for deadlines at the studio. I’m attributing much of the good business fortune at Daylight Photo to the good kharma coming from the website here, so let‘s hope ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Have you ever been in a creative rut? The ideas just aren't coming to you and when they are, the results are disappointing? I'm sure we've all been there. This is the story of how I dealt with one particular creative drought.
A couple of years ago my photo studio was ...
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