A weekly roundup of photography news and general photo talk around the Internet. Discovered Photography 40 Coffee Pots by photographer James StLaurent is available at Discovered Artists for a $325 as an 18×24 printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Luster. I love the cubism treatment used in this photograph. Photographers That Rock Regular readers of Digital Camera magazine will find a feature of Miss Aniela as a featured photographer. I’ve followed her blog for quite a while an
If you are going to own and run a home based business, having your own home office is an important aspect of your success. Although you could perform your duties at your kitchen table, this should be a last resort, as having your own space will enable you to differentiate your home from your business. It is essential that you have a place that is conducive to work. Having your home office in your living room isn’t favorable to getting work done. You will also discover that finding time to rest
Many companies find photo ID badge s awfully useful. They are a great way to enhance your security and quickly give info about the person wearing them. There are many different type of ID badges at a variety of price points. Easy plastic badges will be very cheap to make. Some of the more advances, and costly, ID badges will have magnetic keys to gain access to assorted parts of the building. The straightforwardness of which some people lose them is the largest disadvantage to using photo
Selling Your Own Home In A Tough Real Estate Market – Five Tips If you are in a tough real estate market and are looking to sell your home quickly, you might want to consider doing a For Sale By Owner. My wife and I recently bought a new house and after trying unsuccessfully to sell our existing house through a real estate agent for several months decided to try For Sale by Owner. We found a buyer within four days and closed on the house three weeks later. However, through our experience we
Have you ever seen horns growing from your grandmothers head in a photograph? Don’t worry, it’s just an optical illusion so she’s not gone over to the “dark side”.
But there’s a good reason for the horns. The human brain scans the scene and focus on what it finds interesting and eliminates the rest. This is all done subconsciously so you won’t even notice it. The camera can’t however selectively filter out information like your brain can, so you end up with everything that was in the view finder, not just what you thought you saw.
Your eyes also see the scene in three dimensions but the camera can only render the same scene in two dimensions. The result is that tree branches seems to grow from your grandmothers head and lamp poles from your house. Always look for and try to
this kind of problem, especially in portraits where they can be very distracting and certainly not very pleasing.
Distracting Background
Above is an example of a portrait having this problem. The tree seems to grow from my wife’s head (believe me, it’s just an illusion 
