It’s hard being a photographer – you always strive for perfection in ever shot, even your snap shots. Sometimes you just want to tidy up a photo quickly – especially those imperfect snap shots. Usually my snap shots right out of camera tend to be really dull, lifeless and lacking in contrast. I’ve always wanted a way to quickly and easily fix them up – now I’ve created just the action to do so!
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Who Needs an Assistant when you have TriGrips?
Came across this great article from Terry White today When I don’t have a photographic assistant via the Imaging Insider.
The LastoLite TriGrip comes in a number of different flavors. There’s are the 18″, 30″, 48″ and the jumbo 58″ sizes. My personal opinion is don’t waste your time or money with an 18″ reflector. I’m going to focus on the 30″ variety because I find 30″ to be the best value. It is my Goldilocks: not too big, not too little and not too expensive for the immense amount of use it sees!
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Where to Find Wide Seamless Canvas and Muslin for DIY Photography Backdrops Online
Finding seamless muslin to use for photography backdrops or to dye for photography backgrounds is a bit tricky depending on your location in the world.Here is my resource collection of online retailers to help you find places anyone can order seamless muslin or canvas at least 10′ wide.
I’ve dyed canvas before and it sure was a learning experience but in the end I ordered canvas backgrounds from B&H Photo Video instead of making any more. Many people are far more creatively inclined or have specific needs – this resource is for you.
Removing Gaffers Tape Using Photoshop’s Patch Tool
It’s easy to remove distractions like gaffers tape and paper tears from a background of your photograph using Adobe Photoshop. In this video I use Photoshop’s patch tool to remove distracting gaffers tape from a seamless background to enhance the photograph in less than 5 minutes. I’ll walk you through all the steps and help you see how quick an easy it is to enhance your shots!
Tech Corner: Photographers, Backup Your Work!
Top 5 reasons to backup your work:
- Just Because!
- Your computer is less likely to die if you have a backup (Murphy’s Law)
- Redundancy is your friend
- Hard drives die – all the time
- It takes over night to do a solid backup – it takes between 3-5 days to find out that you can’t recover anything from a dead hard drive.