Launched my new portfolio, focus is now on photography 2007 07 25

I have had See Me Create for about 4 years now and have done a bit of work under that name. Just about all the work I have done has been web related in one way or another. I'm ready to switch gears, I have all the equipment I need, save a telephoto/z

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How to create the LensBaby effect in Photoshop 2007 05 14

I will be the first to say right away that this technique does not exactly replicate what Lensbabies can achieve. In fact I discovered this technique without even having Lensbabies in my mind, but instead later realized there are some similarities. A

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Add life to your dull landscape photos 2007 05 09

This tutorial is not to replace great photography, but to instead help those of you, like me, who are hobbyists and don't have the expensive equipment to get the photos we want to get. You will need at least Adobe Photoshop CS2. This tutorial is base

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First photography prints for sale 2007 01 25

inPRNT! is an up and coming new artist gallery print shop, I'll let them explain what they do: What is this?inPRNT is a service that was created to help artists. We want to make creating and distributing art as easy as waking up and putting

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File Magazine 2006 12 04

So I had a photograph of mine featured on a really cool site called FILE Magazine. What is FILE? The purpose of FILE is to collect and display photographs that treat subjects in unexpected ways. Alternate takes, odd angles, unconventional observat

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My next purchase 2006 05 09

So I have decided on what I would like to get next. A SP AF28-75MM F/2.8 XR Di LD aspherical lens. This will perfectly compliment the Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 EX DC HSM lens, the Quantaray 70-300mm F4-5.6 LDO macro and my Canon 50mm F1.8 II lens. I do st

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Tilt shift, a Flickr phenomenon 2006 03 01

I read an article on Boing Boing the other day about a technique called "tilt shift", it's basically a method for creating a lens blur to mock depth of field on an image that wouldn't normally have it. For instance, this photo has a strong depth of f

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Columbia River...
Desert Oasis
By Joe Nicora