August 2010

I moved to a new apartment with a garage last month. I think the very first thing that crossed my mind was: “that could be an interesting place to take portraits”. The old bricked wall in the garage caught my attention immediately and I thought it could be a very interesting background for pictures, especially because of the pattern they give. Continue reading “Garage’s Bricked Wall as a Background” »

It’s official: I’ve switched over to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3. I know that some of you followed previously my experience with testing Apple’s Aperture 3 when it came out. Unfortunately, the processing speed of RAW files in Aperture 3 became simply unacceptable for me – waiting for 4 minutes for a program to process some adjustments within an image can be painful and a big time-waster as you can imagine.

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Many aspiring photographers try to find their ways not only on how to enter the photography market, but also on how to effectively and efficiently learn the art of photography. Some of these people find themselves in a rather deadlock – they have the basic knowledge but they can’t progress anywhere from there. Such situations quite often occur when we start by reading lots of articles about photography and learning the theory but we forgot the most important thing about photography: it’s about taking pictures!

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