Aperture 3 brings a stack of new features to managing and processing your RAW photo library. One of the features I like most is the powerful brushes tool. Combine Aperture 3 with a Wacom tablet and you possibilities are endless. Obviously with a stack of time you can pretty much enhance a photo to near perfection but I decided to put Aperture 3 and a Wacom Bamboo 2 (read our … [Read more...]
Cafe Galleries : Good or bad?
I have been approached on a number of occasion to put my work in a number of cafes and have never really got around to getting the work on the wall. I know a number of photographers who have gone down this route and haven't actually yielded any real benefit and in a number of occasions it has ended up costing the photographer money for printing and framing. One example, … [Read more...]
Review : Below the Horizon (eBook)
I am methodically working my way through a series of eBooks on photography and I am determined to bring the best to the pages of SevenbyFive. This week's read was "Below the Horizon" by Dave Delnea. Another essential classic in the $5 eBook series, this forty page publication looks at understanding light at the edges of the day. There is no doubt the extremes of the day, … [Read more...]
Photo Profile : Brian Carey
We are all potential artisans. I use the word artisan rather than artist because I am a blue collar, nuts and bolts kind of guy and I think artisan is best suited to me! Being an photographer has different artistic possibilities. We could use photography to create “our” reflection of our environment, our life, a visual expression of the world around us. Or we could use it as … [Read more...]
Photo Profile – Neil Hargreaves
Like a large majority of photographers, my interest in photography started as a child. Actually, I think my initial interest was actually in the cameras themselves, rather than the images they produced. My curiosity was roused by the buttons and levers, the curious noise the shutter made when I played with my father’s cameras, secretly and out-of-sight in an upstairs … [Read more...]