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jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:30:17 PDT

As you may have guessed, the podcast that was delayed Friday is now compiled and ready for your listening pleasure. I would like to take another moment to thank Terry Reinert of TKR Photo for taking the time to participate in the interview series – not only is he full of useful information, but a [...]

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Stop crowning around

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:07:53 PDT

The best laid plans always seem destined to fail…or something like that, right? Well, such was the case for todays scheduled blog post. Today was supposed to be the day where I release the latest podcast for everyone’s listening pleasure. I’ve got all the prep content outlined and had a great conversation with Terry Reinert [...]

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Contest Updates

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:35:56 PDT

Today I thought it would be appropriate to take a moment and give some contest update announcements. First off, don’t forgot the OnOne Software Plugin Suite contest that is going on all month. Share your images over in the Flickr thread (with a theme of “Numbers”) to be eligible. Second, the winer of the Fotoquote Pro discount [...]

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The Rule of Thirds Revisited

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:30:59 PDT

We’ve all seen the term used, and the approach should not be a novel one to most of us at this point. Heck, I’ve even talked about it here before to a certain degree. But today, I’d like to take the Rule of Thirds and look at it from two distinct approaches: landscape and portrait [...]

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Mask Pro 4.1

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:23:33 PDT

Okay, I know the folks from onOne have been very generous with their contribution of a copy of the OnOne Plugin Suite for the latest giveaway here at Canon Blogger/Learning Digital Photography, but I have to say that I am literally blown away by this offer even more. As I delve into each tool more [...]

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Charge!

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:30:46 PDT

The time has come to say goodbye – that’s right, the time has come. You knew this day would happen – we all did. It was inevitable. It was a good run while it lasted, but there is no avoiding it. No tears please… No cries, no weeping, no condolences, regrets, or farewell parties are [...]

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Fireworks Friday!

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:01:14 PDT

In honor of the upcoming holiday here in the U.S., today is offically a no-blog day,as we usher in the weekend. Happy Fourth of July everyone!

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Win, Listen, and Bang!

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:30:24 PDT

This week’s show is a doozy – I talk about the latest contest, (#3 for 2009), have a fun conversation with Jason Loucks, then tackle some tips on photography fireworks. Of course the show always takes care of a couple listener questions and answers, so it’s 45 jam-packed minutes of photography fun. Here’s the show [...]

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Creative Composition – Vignetting Photos

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:30:02 PDT

In general we learn that placing your subject dead center in the frame is something to avoid – creatively speaking it can kill a picture. While this holds true as a general rule, I was walking into work yesterday morning and the sky was a brilliant blue, with the capitol bulding of Denver right dead [...]

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Let me count the ways…

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:01:50 PDT

The age old phrase of “let me count the ways” seemed like as good a theme as any to announce the newest contest from the blog here for the Learning Digital Photography podcast. I just got word from the folks at OnOne software that they really liked the post on Genuine Fractals – so much [...]

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Wacom Bamboo Fun: Hardware Review

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:30:53 PDT

The good folks at Wacom were kind enough to donate a Bamboo Fun to me for review on the blog a while back. In order to really get a full handle on it though, I wanted to use it within the context of my at-home work flow. You see, I’m not a newcomer to tablets, [...]

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Painting with Light

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:42:00 PDT

About a year ago, Joe McNally gave a talk at Google where he referenced the roots of the word photography. The two roots are photo and graphos, and the meanings are light and write. We so often hear of people “painting with light”, and after seeing a few people demonstrating how they use flashlights to [...]

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And the winner is…

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:30:00 PDT

Blooming Orchid, by photographer John Dunne, of Ireland. He’s got quite a nice portfolio of images too over on his Flickr photostream, so do stop over and give him a little kudos, pat on the back, congratulations, etc. as he’s won the Adobe Lightroom Contest here at Learning Digital Photography! His winning image (surprise surprise) [...]

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And then there were three…

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:30:18 PDT

First off, some software news that we all may want to stay abreast of – Adobe has released the latest updates for Camera Raw and Adobe Lightroom. The ACR update applies to CS4 users, Elements 7.0 users, and Premiere Elements 7.0 users, and includes raw conversion algorithms for the Canon 500D, the Powershot XS1 IS, the [...]

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Software Review – Genuine Fractals 6.0

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:26:40 PDT

Don’t get too excited – no software giveaway on this one folks, as I’ve not had a chance to call OnOne yet and see if they’d be interested in participating in a contest. Instead, I am working off a trial version of one of the premiere up-sizing software programs on the market – Genuine Fractals [...]

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Rocket Man!

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:30:25 PDT

Cleaning your gear is a maintenance ritual each of us must develop that suits our own style and behaviors. For me it’s lists…logical lists that I formulate after thinking about what makes sense to me, so I can do things the same way every time. For me it’s all about consistency and repeatability. While this [...]

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Extra Extra, read all about it!

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:08:54 PDT

It’s a rare Saturday that I make a blog post, but while waiting on a contractor to install some wireless at work, I had some time to do some writing and in the process, I came across an article I put together back in 2008 titled “5 Ways to improve your Photographs”. Though the article is [...]

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Friday Fab Five

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:41:44 PDT

For something new here on the blog, I thought it might be fun to share some of my favorite keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop. The idea here is that people will share their top five in the comments area and we can get an idea of many more keyboard shortcuts than we ever could have found [...]

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Seven Super Summer Tips

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:30:30 PDT

Since the podcast went live yesterday, the compositional theme was kind of put on the back burner, so I’d like to bring that back to the forefront today with something everybody likes…a list! For some reason lists of bullet points seem to generate a lot of feedback, and garner the most interest, so here we go [...]

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Reviews, Interviews and Vista Views

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:30:13 PDT

The latest episode of the Learning Digital Photography podcast is now live and for those of you picking this up in your feeds, make sure you stop over to iTunes or the via PLM to download the show. This week, I go into a little more depth on how I conduct reviews of hardware and [...]

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The Un-review Software

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:30:51 PDT

This week I am going to talk about the lack of software in the weekly software review. That’s right – the lack of it! You may be sitting there wondering which software item I am going to talk about, promote, or diss in some way shape or form, but instead of that, I actually want [...]

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Hardware review: Sigma 10-20mm

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:44:39 PDT

The review you’ve all been waiting for – the one to compete with my Canon 10-22mm review from a few weeks back! Well, there is no clear and decisive winner, so the wind is probably taken out of all the sails of those who were waiting for some smack-down talk. The reason? Some aspects I [...]

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Another Colorado Sunset [Flickr]

CBJason — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:43:04 PDT

CBJason posted a photo:

Taken a week or so ago, and testing some HDR methods, I pulled this one together...see the individual shots on the blog to be released later this morning as a part of my review on the Sigma 10-20

Finally some good news – it’s Friday!

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:30:50 PDT

Well, there’s some other good news too. Wacom delivered the something to me door yesterday to review here on the blog. I’ll be doing a more detailed write-up for both Windows and Mac in the near future, but thought y’all might be interested in the unboxing – seeing what you get from the good folks [...]

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Write it down!

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:30:58 PDT

Sorry for the lack of a post yesterday folks – for those of you that Twitter and have me on follow, you’ll know that we had our cars taken out from under our noses (literally while we slept) early Tuesday morning. By the time I woke up and got dressed for work (at 6) they [...]

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The Business of Selling Your Photos

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:30:51 PDT

As economic belts are cinched, and we start spending our dollars more carefully than ever before, I am getting email a lot from photographers asking “What should I be charging for this event?”, or “A client wants a digital negative, what’s a fair rate?”, and even, “How much is my work worth?” Truth be told, the [...]

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Black Drops 1 [Flickr]

CBJason — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:43:21 PDT

CBJason posted a photo:

David Hobby over on Strobist did a teaser last Saturday on how to capture water drops with one speedlight. I took the challenge and snapped away with a similar setup and my own light and various backgrounds. These are the ones I liked from that project

Black Drops 2 [Flickr]

CBJason — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:43:19 PDT

CBJason posted a photo: