Recently, I received a few photos of Urumqi, China and they look like standard EOS-20D photos. Not that there’s anything wrong with them but when we take photos, realistic is usually not on our minds. Ignore digital manipulation for a bit here; we’ve been maipulating how our photos look like for a long time. When we choose a specific film, we’re already altering what the REAL picture looks like. Some film like Fuji’s Velvia for example tend to be very saturated with deep greens and blues. I find that the EOS-20D’s out-of-camera JPEGs are a tad undersaturated and soft.

Urumqi Market (un-adjusted)

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Jennifer Apple at PhotoshopBlog has posted a list of a few tips that can help speed up your Photoshop workflow. You can find the tips here. There’s also two Photoshop tutorials I’d like to highlight that will come in handy for any photographer; Fixing over-exposed photos and fixing under-exposed photos.

If you’ve got a fast connection, a bit of spare time (!!!) and your favorite beverage with you, then feel free to browse through Canon’s technical library here.

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures. Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
~ Harry Callahan

Serendipity

Adobe has a little section here for photographers but if you don’t have time to go through them, here’s a list of some pretty interesting acrobat documents that you can take a read.
– Understanding Digital RAW Capture
–Raw Capture, Linear Gamma, and Exposure
–Digital photography workflow
–Making the Transition from Film to Digital
–Highlight Recovery in Adobe Camera Raw
–Black and White Conversion Tutorial

Oh, as a side note, here’s PC World‘s article on the cost of home printing.