Canon Professional Services (CPS) Europe’s latest issue has some interesting articles. Two of which I’ll highlight here. One is going back to the basics of Photography – Black and White, or more correctly, monochrome. It’s also a short tutorial on converting color images to B&W. Read it here. Another interesting read is the article on image sharpness, resolution and scaling. It provides some insight about the printing industry in general. Take a look here.

April 12, 2005

April 19, 2005

Wonder if they’ll let me win twice or am I being too confident 🙂
That said, looking at the quality level of the previous entries, I’d say quite a few people I know stand a very strong chance…

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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.