SPRING IS IN THE AIR- and so is POLLEN!
these little sticky spores can create havoc on your sensors… remember
you have 3,000 little pixels going across about an inch, and Pollen is
about Pixel sized. They SUCK! Clean your sensors… and click here for more information.

LATEST ON LEXAR WA CARDS

I’ve sent my cards and
the non-Lexar Firewire reader for evaluation. Photographers who
use the new Lexar “W.A.” cards would be best advised
to only download images using the attached “Jumpshot USB”
cable that comes in the box. Using other card readers could result
in imperceptable file loss. click
here to see the thread.

EDDIE TAPP HAS JOINED THE MESSAGEBOARD AT DPN
- Eddie Tapp is one of the most renowned Photoshop gurus and experts on
color management. I’ve learned a lot from Eddie over the years, and his
expertise joins Claude Jodoin, our resident super-technical expert on
digital photography. Claude’s “professor pixel” and Eddie’s message
board have become a popular resource, Join these great gentlemen online
by clicking on these links. [Eddie Tapp] [Claude Jodoin]

HOW TO MAKE BEAUTIFUL DIGITAL ALBUMS
- Digital photography now makes it possible to have unbelievable
creativity in making wedding albums. Before, wedding albums were very
limited- limited to 1,2,3 or 4 images per page, and if you were really
creative you threw in a panorama print (woo hoo!). Now, the sky is the
limit. You can make beautiful panoramic collage pages, or tasteful
bevelmat books. My low-cost kits literally pay for themselves with the
first album- and you will achieve a brand-new look in your albums. click here!

Digital Cross Processing
- join our discussion about digital cross processing techniques
in-camera. No more screwing up everyone’s film by putting your neg film
in E6 chemistry! Join our discussion here

Digital Infrared
- Hear the latest techniques for infrared with digital
photography.  There are two ways to do this – 1) using a IR filter
that blocks everything above the IR range (but you  can’t see
through the lens) and 2) by removing the IR glass filter in your
digital camera (which ruins it by the way so do it on an old one!) you
can see through the lens or see the image in the electronic viewfinder.  click here

Strobe
Techniques – in digital photography, the key to great images is low
contrast. Compressed midrange tones are the main reason that images
look “digital”. Also, some cameras have a fairly inaccurate auto-white
balance, and flash really cleans these images up. Join our “flash
techniques” discussion here.

It’s here! My exhaustive print-tests and setting suggestions of the brand new Canon EOS1D -Mark II – after printing a ton of 12×18″ enlargements at the different settings on this camera, I’ll tell you the optimum settings for this screamer of a camera! click here!