Legal rights of photographers
Photojojo has a really interesting article on the rights of photographers. I knew some of these, but not all.Light & Dark CSS Designs
A CSS gallery full of LIght and Dark CSS designs. A niche, nonetheless an important one.Great Illustrator Tutorials
Here's a list of excellent Adobe Illustrator tutorials from smashing magazine.Strobist Basics
Paul Duncan has put together this excellent video explanation covering off camera flash basics. A great visual reference with photos explaining the differences between using different light modifiers.Stop using Trajan in Movies
This guy has an excellent video on the overusage of the Trajan font in movies. Trajan is a typeface based on carvings found on a Roman column that dates back more than 2000 years ago.Grunge Mania
One of my favorite sites Smashing Magazine has links to a ton of resources to fulfill your grungy style urge.Introduction to Metering
Digital Photography School offers up this great writeup how camera metering works. One of those obscure options in some SLR cameras.Reverse IP Lookup
Find out what other web sites are being hosted on your (or anyone else's) IP address.
My regularly updated comments on what's going on around the world of the web. Highlighting sites with flash help, great sites, photography tips, cool sites and other stuff.
This area contains online tutorials and articles on computer graphics, design, photography flash and ActionScript.
Unity through Repetition
Unity is a key concept of design which is especially important when designing campaigns. In this series of half page print ads running in a local hispanic paper for my radio station, the tough part was making all of the wildly different photos provided by record labels look similar. How did I do it? Click to find out.Sweet Lightning
I had to get a couple of extra flashes for an upcoming photo shoot and I couldn't get the Vivitar 285HVs that I love so instead I picked up a couple of Promaster 5750 and I was floored.Cutting & Protecting Vivitar 285HV Gels
Get perfectly sized photography color correction gels for a Vivitar 285HV and learn a fairly cheap and convenient way to protect them.Five Skills of Great Photographers
Understanding how to get a correct exposure is just the tip of the iceberg. To capture great images, you need to learn to master these five skills.Readability tips
Over the years, research into the readability of documents and personal experience has yielded important information relevant to graphic artists. Here are some of the important findings.Digital Photography
Digital photography has become an indispensible tool of graphic design. This lesson shows you the basics of photography. From the inner workings of the tools to tips on how to take good pictures.Photography: Improving photos with reflectors/ diffusers
Using reflectors with your photography is a fairly inexpensive way of improving the quality of your photos. The effects can be quite dramatic.Extreme Motion: Photoshop to Flash Part II
If you've finished the first part of my From Photoshop to Flash tutorial, you learned that transparent PNG's are the best way to export files and bring them into Flash. In this tutorial, I'll take some of the special effects you developed in Photoshop and teach you how to achieve the illusion of extreme motion in Flash.
