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My Cooking Diary →
I’ve learned from watching Gordon Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmare that unless done professionally or at least tastefully, photographs of dishes on a menu should always have the effect of making those courses incredibly appetizing to eat and not horrified by how it looks.
I think it takes an art to be able to photograph food that comes across like this but Mike Matas has nailed it with the launch of My Cooking Diary - a site design by him and his girlfriend Sharon Hwang. Every recipe sincerely looks delicious and I can personally vouch for this one so far. I made it yesterday.
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Creating iPad Albums With Lightroom →
I use Lightroom to exclusively managed all of my photographs and the only reason to ever launch iPhoto is to import albums that I sync onto the iPad or iPhone. It’s a process I’m not too fond in replicating and one that I now do less of thanks to a neat preset by Matt Kloskowski.
Carry with you any album on your iPad by exporting it directly from Lightroom. It’s a huge timesaver especially if that particular album has more than 75 photos that you would normally have to first export from Lightroom and then import back into iPhoto if you used the traditional method.
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A camera, like a guitar, is just a box with a hole in it. Until it is placed in the hands of a true artist, it will not make music, only noise. What do you want your music to sound like?
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Charging to Submit
I don’t enter photography contest as much as I’m suggested to but I’ve changed that about me because it’s really a great assessment in seeing how your photographs stack up against others as well gaining the exposure that comes with winning one. Some are free while others require a fee but I confess it’s the latter that I veer to the most.
What’s wrong with free ones? Absolutely nothing but you must consider that because it’s free, the amount of entries are going to be considerably higher whereas if you pay, there’s the obligation to place extra thought on the caliber of the material that’s being submitted as oppose to submitting just because there’s a wide open door to do so.
Not always the case but a perfect illustration of this would be similar to the amount of comments a blog may receive. Are they always insightful, relevant and do they add value to the topic at hand? Absolutely not but then again there’s no velvet rope at the front to contain it unless you’re one that likes to deal with moderating comments on Wordpress.
I know I don’t which is why I side with the Sun Chronicle’s recent decision to charge $0.99 for a comment that any reader might consider submitting. Unless one has something valuable to contribute, one’s less likely to pay for something’s that’s often abused. Like Marco said, hopefully submissions would “be more civil, more intelligent, and better written.”
I can’t say that I’m overjoyed with every single one of my photographs but the ones that I feel more strongly about are the ones I don’t ever have any reservation paying $20 a piece when submitting to a contest. Whether I win is another question but at least I can stand firmly behind what I think adds substances to a less-likely-to-be saturated environment.
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Presetpond: Sharing Lightroom & Aperture Presets →
A neat community for sharing, discovering and downloading presets for 2 of the most popular photo editing software Aperture and Lightroom. Signing up is free and so is downloading any of the many presets that aim to spruce up your photographs. Bookmarked.
