“Cleaning Up the Digital Clutter”

How to organize and utilize your digital images

The Digital Dilemma

The digital camera has definitely revolutionized the photography industry.  Per a number of studies, 70% of US households will own one by 2007, and the old phrase of “everyone’s a comedian” has morphed into “everyone’s a photographer”.  But the one universal aspect of the design that at first was a selling point, “email your photos, share them online and view them on your computer!” has created another dilemma. (read more >)

iView Media 3/ iView Media Pro 3

Primasoft’s Photo Picture Organizer Deluxe

Extensis Portfolio 8

Image Database Programs reviewed

Software reviewed

iPhoto

iView

Extensis Portfolio

Picture Organizer

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Side bar

the iPod tv slide show

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Apple’s iPhoto

(part of iLife ‘08)

“Compact Tripod Review”

Portable Tripods easy to pack & use on the go

Why a Tripod?

Although camera equipment technology improves every year, with manufacturers adding certain bells and whistles such as Image Stabilization, having a tripod can still be not only beneficial to your photography, but allow you the opportunity to capture many more images you never could have without one.

PLEASE NOTE - This article is not complete

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SherpaPod

Teeny Pod

VTP-815

Product images

Equipment reviewed

GorillaPods

REI’s tripod

Velbon’s Teeny Pod

and VTP-815

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Contact info

for all companies

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GorillaPod

“The History of Photography”

How 180 years shaped the ways of Image Making

I have always felt if you want to accomplish true greatness in any field or endeavor you cannot do so without understanding and appreciating the history of it.  With that said, knowledge of how photography evolved over its history can add yet another brick toward building a house of photographic experience.

Many are not aware the first temporary images were created over a thousand years ago by Ibn al-Haytham, a Muslim Persian scientist born in southern Iraq in 965.  Al-Haytham invented the camera obscura, also known as the pinhole camera, where inverted images were cast onto a dark wall through a small opening.  Even though the recordings could not be archived until certain chemical processes and technologies were later invented, it was the first known method of photography.  (read more >)

L’Atelier de l'artiste, an 1837 daguerreotype by Louis Daguerre