Foto Tip from Mark Alberhasky – Mark looks at how breaking the rules of photography sometimes is exactly what you need to do to create a killer image. “Rules are meant to be broken.” “Rebel” that I am (those of you who know me well are chuckling now), I can tell you that breaking some [...]
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What is the hardest part about making a great image?
Foto Tip from Mark Alberhasky – Mark looks at the state of mind required to find that next great shot, the photograph that blows you away and makes you ask “did I take that”? What is the hardest part about making a great image? Some might say, “Paying for the expensive equipment it takes to [...]
Give yourself permission to make great images
Mark Alberhasky looks at what it takes to make a great photo and how we stop ourselves from doing it. For those of you who have been reading my foto tips over the years, you may have noticed that they generally don’t deal with technical issues. The reason for this is that there is no [...]
The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed
Mark Alberhasky looks at what it can take to get a great photograph. In the process he examines a state of mind which can produce great results in other aspects of our lives as well. This photo tip has to do with learning how much effort to put into a picture, but it is also [...]
Fractal Art Series of Articles Started
A new series of articles on my experiences with fractal art has started I’ve begun a new series of short articles on my experiences with doing fractal art and on using the fractal programs. These articles are appearing on my blog site, www.digitalimagemakerworld.com The first article takes a brief look at the FractInt fractal program [...]
Digital Art Studio
Techniques for Combining Inkjet Printing with Traditional Art Materials Digital Art Studio Techniques for Combining Inkjet Printing with Traditional Art Materials By Karin Schminke, Dorothy Simpson Krause and Bonny Pierce Lhotka Published by Watson-Guptill Publications, 2004 ISBN 0-8230-1342-1 Digital Art Studio is a book about extending digital printing, mainly inkjet, by working with unusual media, [...]
Heat Wave Brownouts Destroy Computers
A UPS can save the day While many Americans scurry to buy an air conditioner to coolthemselves from the oppressive heat, a UPS for your computer shouldalso be on your shopping list, or you may be one of the unfortunateones forced to buy a new computer after the heat wave. Air conditionersmay keep us and [...]
Getting Referrals
Referrals are one of the best and also cheapest ways to obtain serious leads for your business. One of the principles in business is to examine how much it costs youto obtain a new customer. This can get complex but one of the aspectswhich is often ignored is the time you spend with a potential [...]
Privacy Policies for Web Sites
Having an effective privacy policy can be a key to a successful web site. A requirement for many web sites these days is a privacy policy. Inmany parts of the world government regulations affect the collection,storage and communication of information about individuals. There arealso international treaties affecting these areas. Many web sites collect some sort [...]
Digital Image Resolution
A confusing topic for beginners, here we look at image resolution. Colour for digital imaging purposes is defined by a number of channelsof data, one for each colour required by the system of representationthat we are using. A monochrome image requires only one channelfor the brightness or luminance. For colour images the two mainsystems are [...]
Starting Out – Film versus Digital Cameras
This article explores grain and noise, how they relate and other issues in choosing between film and digital capture. There are two ways to capture images photographically, use a film camera and scan or use a digital camera. Film Film is certainly, on the surface, the cheapest option. You probably already have a film camera [...]
When Size Does Matter â
Some images just need to be printed large. Whilst most of us stick with small prints, 4″ x 5″ up to 8″ x 10″, weare really missing out on things. Photographs, like all other forms ofvisual art, have a natural size. Highly detailed, intricate worksperform very well in the smaller sizes, such as 8″ x [...]
APC Power Protection
Uninterruptable power supplies are essential for anyone doing essential work on their computers. In far northern Queensland, in Australia, power problems are a regularpart of life. The region’s tropical weather patterns, including heavyrainfalls, lightening strikes and cyclonic winds wreak havoc onoverhead power lines, causing numerous blackouts and surges. That’s whyCairns-based freelance photographer, John Bujack, relies [...]
Introduction to 3D Modelling and Rendering, Part 2 â
An introduction to 3D for those new to it. 3D software offers many options in how we represent, and thus create,the objects that go into our scenes. In this part of the coursewe examine basic object representations. What Sorts of Objects In most real scenes, the objects that we might want toincorporate will be complex. [...]
Simple Lighting Equipment for Digital Photography – Tungsten Lighting
Good photography is often about good lighting and in all the noise about studio flash and advanced lighting the old favourite, tungsten, often gets forgotten. With all the hype about studio flash and the built-in flashcapabilities of modern digital cameras there is little attention paidto an old yet faithful technology, tungsten. Yet tungsten has much [...]
Introduction to 3D Modelling and Rendering, Part 1 â
An introduction to 3D for those new to it. What is 3D? For those of us used to working in Photoshop and Illustrator it isimportant to realise that all that work is 2D, or two-dimensional.Photographs of real objects or painting them from scratch in Painter,they are still 2D. This is because we are either working [...]
