Weekend Links

One of the links suggests we stop doing wide angle verticals. I don’t know about you, but I still like them.
This week’s links:

We all have our own pet peeves, but here’s a list of 10 Photography Ones… just, uh, ignore that one about wide angle verticals :). (link thanks to epic edits)
Recently get a [...]


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Weekly Gimp Plug-in Review: FX-Foundry Part Two

If you remember from last week we left off with the Diffusion Filter. As a reminder, here’s the original image we’re working with:
Also, I took a suggestion from commenter Laura and I’m going to show both the original and the changed in side-by-side so you don’t have to scroll… now the way I did [...]


Photography 101: Playing with Shutter Speed

A while ago, I talked about exposure and how adjusting your ISO, aperture and shutter speed can affect the exposure of your photograph.
Later, I talked a little more about the magic of aperture and how opening our closing your aperture can result in either a shallow or deep depth of field.
Well. Today I’m going [...]


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Weekend Links

One of my photos from the Worldwide Photo Walk

Flowers make for some really beautiful photo subjects. The problem is, we’ve all noticed that, and we all have tons of flower photos. Here are 13 alternative flower photography tips to make your flower photos stand out.
If my links aren’t enough for you, check out DPS’s [...]


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Weekly Gimp Plug-in Review: FX-Foundry Part One

This week’s gimp plug-in is actually a suite of plug-ins called FX-Foundry. Their website, I felt, was lacking. No screenshots, examples, or how-tos, but it seemed to be a popular tool in the GIMP Users group on flickr, so I thought I’d give it a shot.
Anyway, you can download the suite by clicking [...]


Gimp: Some quick tips

The Gimp is a very powerful piece of software and it can take quite some time to figure out all the little things it can do for you to help make your photo editing routine easier. I know some of these things might seem a bit obvious, but I didn’t notice them all at [...]


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Weekend Links

This picture isn’t from today, but I did bike this boardwalk today
Just got back from a 10 mile bike ride and I’m stinky, you should feel lucky you can’t smell me through the internet.
This week’s links:

A while ago, I wrote about my workflow. If you’d like a different perspective, photodoto did a two-part entry [...]


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Wednesday Gimp Plug-in Review: Split Tone

I’m hoping to have another weekly thing going on here at iffles.com. After all, I did two weeks in a row of the Weekend Links, so that’s a good sign that I might be able to keep up with weekly things, right?
Well. Now I’m introducing Wednesday Plug-in Reviews! Did you know that [...]


Weekend Links

This photo was taken on a trail that you can find using the last link below
Here’s the weekend round-up of links!

All the tutorials I write on this site are for The Gimp, but if you use Photoshop, you might be interested in this: A-Z of Free Photoshop Plugins and Filters
If you are using Gimp, you [...]


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Misc. Housekeeping

This photo has nothing to do with the entry – but I said Housekeeping in the title, and this door is in my house. Get it? Housekeeping? .. yeah, I shouldn’t write entries so late at night
No new tips or tricks for today, but I did want to update you on two [...]


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