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Well, everyone was busy talking about the MacBook Air, so I decided not to. You will not find one article on said laptop in this list. You’re welcome.

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I have been waiting for this moment for quite a while… I have made a significant upgrade from my trusty Nikon FT2 to the Nikon F3HP. I was introduced to this camera by a friend and I have been pining over it ever since. However, I really did not feel the need for more automation until I began moving toward photographing people - after a few sessions, I really felt that auto-exposure would be a significant help. After a few serious hours with the camera, I am already blown away at how enjoyable it is to shoot with it.
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During some preliminary work on an upcoming photography article, I had been going through the normal process of taking the RAW format photos from our digital SLR to JPEGs to put on the site. Somewhere through that process I happened to notice a large discrepancy between the colors of my original RAW format photos to the resulting JPEG images. Frankly, I do not know why it took me so long to notice such dramatic differences - my only thought is that I rarely examine the saved JPEG to the original photo. Either way, I was pretty disgusted with what I saw and so I thought I would try to do something to fix it.
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I have recently become interested in using colored lens filters for my film camera when using black and white film. Colored lenses can dramatically impact the grey tones and contrast when shooting in black and white - results you would otherwise not get from a “naked” lens. When shooting with film, I like to stay out of Photoshop as much as possible other than basic cleaning. Sure, I could increase the contrast of a photo with curves or levels, but why not do it the old-fashioned way instead. Let me tell you, the latter is much more fulfilling. Nonetheless, for those of you who do not have lens filters and/or would rather simulate it in Photoshop, these digital lens filter Photoshop actions will be the next best thing. Below I write about what colored lens filters do to black and white film and how Photoshop can roughly simulate it.
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A motherload of links this week. I truly hope you enjoy this week’s links because it took me an extraordinary amount of time to collect them and put the list together. There are a lot of articles this week so get your reading glasses ready. Are there any specific subjects that you would like addressed in the future? Give me a holla’.

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