Lensbaby 3G review — Photography Podcast #15

March 29, 2007 By Leave a Comment

This pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast‚features‚a review of the Lens­baby 3G which is a tool (a lens actually)for the traditional‚and dig­i­tal SLR‚that allows you to add unusu­ally artis­tic depth and blur effects to your pho­tographs. You can download‚this pho­tog­ra­phy podcast‚directly‚by click­ing the pre­ced­ing link‚or lis­ten to it almost imme­di­ately with the embed­ded player.

Here are some Lens­baby 3G exam­ple images (click to enlarge)
Note the blur­ring effects in each photograph

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Stock photography — Interview with Andre Nantel — photography podcast # 14

March 20, 2007 By 2 Comments

This pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast‚fea­tures an inter­view with Mon­treal pho­tog­ra­pher Andre Nan­tel. In this inter­view we talk about macro pho­tog­ra­phy and we also talk about Andre’s per­sonal expe­ri­ences with the tra­di­tional (Alamy‚& Acclaim Images)and micro (Shut­ter­stock & Istock­photo) stock photography‚houses. Other links in the show include Lise Gagne’s work at Istock­photo. You can download‚this pho­tog­ra­phy podcast‚directly‚by click­ing the pre­ced­ing link‚or lis­ten to it almost imme­di­ately with the player below.

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Handcoloring photographs — Photography podcast #13

March 8, 2007 By Leave a Comment

This pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast dis­cusses hand­col­or­ing or hand­paint­ing your pho­tographs. This tech­nique involves actu­ally paint­ing a pho­to­graph. We talk about hand­paint­ing both tra­di­tional and dig­i­tal pho­tos. You can download‚this pho­tog­ra­phy podcast‚directly‚by click­ing the pre­ced­ing link‚or lis­ten to it almost imme­di­ately with the player below.


In the first image I hand­painted the major­ity of the image using Mar­shall oils. It took a good 5 hours to paint. In the sec­ond image, which was toned before handpainting,‚mostly the back­ground is hand­painted.
Extra‚hand­col­or­ing pho­tos tip links

2 of the books I rec­om­mend on the topic are:
Cre­ative Photo Print­mak­ing
Hand­col­or­ing Pho­tographs: How to Cre­ate Color Images from Black and White Photographs

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