Thinking photography — but not doing it…

One of these days, I’ll start doing my own photography again and talking about it. Until then, fortunately, others are filling the gap.

• Do Not Fear the Sun: Our perception of strong sunlight includes its harshness. In bright sun we squint, shade our eyes, reach for sunglasses. Sunlight feels harsh even though it can be flattering for some subjects. I like to photograph buildings in hard sunlight. People or flowers, not so much.
• DIY Soft Box: Use What’s Around you.
• Intro to B&W Photography with Lightroom: Getting started couldn’t be simpler, after having imported your image into Lightroom and moving to the Develop module, notice that at the top of the “Basic” panel Lightroom offers a choice of Color and Greyscale “treatments”, switching from one to the other is as simple as clicking on one of the names—but not quite yet.
• Saturday at the Studio: There were two interesting things for me from this shoot. Instead of editing a whole bunch of photos, I decided up front that the max of photos I would use was going to be 5. And so I narrowed down my picks accordingly and didn’t even take a second look at any others than those 5. [[Interesting concept. I'm going to have to experiment with that as a way to get to the best-of-best quickly...]]
• Better Black and Whites
• Changing the Crop Orientation in Lightroom
• Using Lightroom2′s Target Collection
• Making it Second Nature
• Gotchas in Lightroom B&W Conversions
• Smarter Sharpening with the High Pass Filter
• Fixing Blemishes in Lightroom
• Eight Tips for shoting extremely wide angles
• Correction Multiple Problems in Photoshop
• Lunar Rainbows (massive jealousy, I’d love a few days in Yosemite right now)
• Early Morning Cable Car Riders
• Variations on a two light theme
• Burning and Dodging with adjustment layers and masks
• Human Roadblock
• Answering the Phone “after hours”
• My Photography Workflow 2009
• The Split-Grad
• Shake your Tree Today
• Hurry Up, Lightroom!
• Pricing Prints
• A Low Price Brooklyn Studio with a community philosophy [[ this would be fun to try setting up around here sometime; basically, a photographic co-op]]
• What I look for in an assistant
• Why vs. How
• Packing the Bag
• A Quick and Effective way to Enhance Contrast in Photoshop
• Life is Good. Photography is fun again
• Making Fine Art Prints: An Introduction
• Dude, where’s my blog?  And other SEO thoughts on Photo Blogs

See? that wasn’t so bad, was it?

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