Digital Photo Buzz

Lots of new articles up on Digital Photo Buzz lately. Here are a couple of the most recent articles we have:


Photographers Spotlight – Toky Photography

Photo of the week 4-2-10

Photoshop CS5 Content aware

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Keeping your documents organized

And here is a little bit of our most recent article on "Opening yourself up to new things"

http://digitalphotobuzz.com/opening-yourself-up-to-new-things

Sometimes I find it really interesting the journey life can take you on when you start to open yourself up to new opportunities. I know that change and new things can be hard to take on sometimes. We all get in our comfort zone and it’s hard to leave that place where we feel comfortable and take on something new. But when you open yourself up to new things you will be amazed how much you will grow.

As an artist I constantly get inspired to create new things. Sometimes it might just be creating a new type of image, doing something I have never done photographically. Sometimes it might be starting a new venture like this website was. My normal routine would be to get inspired start planning things out and then a little bit of doubt would come in and make me put the project on the side for awhile. After a few weeks it would be out of my mind and I would be on to the next thing.

Last year I finally came to the conclusion that failure really doesn’t matter. What other people think of me doesn’t matter and that fear and doubt shouldn’t make decisions for me. I told myself that if I got a vision to do something I would see it through completely. There have been a lot of things I have been doing this past year that all haven’t worked out the way I might have thought from the start but have been such an amazing experience so far. This website actually just began as an idea I had to give people that took my workshops a place to go and get some additional information. I thought I could add a tutorial a week and just give them something to keep growing after taking a workshop. After the first few weeks though other people found the site and I started getting more and more traffic from all over the web. I started posting more and more articles and more people kept coming. It turned into something so much larger than I would have ever imagined and I have some really good things to come later on for this site.

read the full article here:
http://digitalphotobuzz.com/opening-yourself-up-to-new-things

Understanding White Balance

Couple new articles on http://www.digitalphotobuzz.com, check out the latest one on creating a custom whitebalance. Here is the first part of the article:

We have received a few requests for posts dealing with white balance and it seems like there is a lot of confusion around this topic. The white balance in your camera is its way of trying to figure out the color temperature of the light when you are shooting each image. Most cameras come with a few standard settings for your white balance; Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Shade, Florescent, Tungsten, Kelvin, Flash and Custom. Getting your white balance correct (and even knowing what should be correct) can be a very detailed and tricky task. There is lots of science behind it, but we will give you a simple yet full explanation of white balance and some ways to help get a good image in camera.

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Photoshop tips and tricks

From a recent post on our digital photography site:
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Keyboard shortcuts can really be such a huge time saver that after awhile you will have a shortcut for everything. In photoshop there are preset shortcuts and you can also create your own shortcuts. Here are some of the most common photoshop shortcuts:
General Shortcuts
Hand Tool –> Spacebar
Apply Last Filter –> Cmd-F
Switch between open documents –> Ctrl-Tab
Viewing
Fit on Screen –> Double-click on Hand tool or Cmd-0
Zoom in –> Cmd-Space-Click or Cmd-Plus(+)
Zoom out –>Option-Space-Click or Cmd-Minus(–)
Rotate through full screen modes –> F

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Photography tips and tricks

Thanks to everyone who has checked out our Digital photography tips & tricks website so far at http://www.digitalphotobuzz.com. I have been amazed with the great response so far and am excited to have a lot of new articles, reviews and photoshop tips coming to the website this week. So check it out and leave us a comment :)

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New photography tips website launched!!!

As most of you who know me or read my blog often know that I have a huge passion for photography and teaching. I love to share my passion of photography with everyone and can talk most peoples ear’s off when it comes to the art of photography. I love teaching the workshops that we offer but those are normally only a few times a year. During the rest of the year I always have some great tips and ideas that I sometimes share on this blog but have so much more to share. I have decided to create a brand new website that will be for photographers and photo enthusiasts. This new website will include shooting tips, lighting information, critiques and discussions, product reviews, workflow solutions and much much more. I am excited to be able to share all of the behind the scenes information hat goes into creating our artwork and share even more my passion for photography with the world. I hope for this to be a site where people can learn, be inspired and join in conversations about photography and art and look forward to forming a new community of photographers.

The website will be updated with 2-3 brand new articles every week so check back often or enter your email in the box at the top right to be emailed all of our new articles. The website address is: http://www.digitalphotobuzz.com

I am excited to be able to give back to the photography community which has been so good to me. When I started my photography path back in High School I never would have imagined where it would lead me. It has been an amazing journey so far and I am excited to keep growing and moving forward with my art.

Hope to see you all there!

– Mark
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