PHOTOGRAPHY BLOG

If you’re like me, you may have taken tons and tons of digital photos with your trusty digital camera, but never took the time to organize them. It’s certainly not a good idea to have thousands of photos lying in your hard drive totally disorganized. For one thing, it’s going to be very tough to find a specific photo for viewing purposes.

So what can you do to put those photos into some semblance of order? Well, this article will show you how, so read on. We’ll assume Adobe Photoshop Album is used as the photo management program of choice.

Step 1: Get a Good Photo Management Program
The first step in organizing your precious photos is to get a good photo management program. Some people maintain that you don’t need a dedicated program to organize your photos - they prefer to use native Windows XP features to do the organizing … full article.

I took this photo one cold winter day, at sunset, which in winter happens very early here in Oulu, Finland. So it was around 3-4pm. For the taking of the photo I had gradient gray and sunset gradient Cokin mount filters on my camera. I did some postprocessing on it. First I created three jpg files from the original RAW file, and then blended them so that I get the detail in the foreground more obvious … full article.

See the latest gallery of Best Photos of the Month - August #1, 2008.

What should we expect from a $3000 Sony Alpha 900? Can you imagine that is a 24.6 MP FF DSLR camera comes with some really impressive features and built quality? Just before that only the Canon 1Ds Mark III in the market offering 21MP resolution and asking more than double of the current price for a Sony Alpha 900.

Since Nikon released the D3, we have been focusing in the debates on higher ISO performance and pixel quality in the past year. The release of Sony Alpha 900 sets a new direction in the DSLR development - higher pixels inspiration. There are only very few people would have Sony Alpha 900 hand-on experience, based on some very limited image samples, Sony Alpha 900 is not particularly impressive in terms of image quality comparing with the Canon 1Ds Mark III, well, but it is a very usable camera … full article.