Digital Photo

The DAM Book, Second Edition--New from O'Reilly: Digital Asset Management ...

Sebastopol, CA—One of the main concerns for digital photographers today is asset management: how to file, find, protect, and re-use their photos. The best solutions can be found in The DAM Book, Second Edition (O'Reilly Media, $49.99 USD), ...

[Publish Date: May 04, 2009]

David Pogue's "Top Ten Tips of All Time" for Digital Photography - O'Reilly ...

By Mary Rotman

If you're ready to jump into digital photography or would like to increase the skills you already have, David Pogue's Digital Photography: The Missing Manual is just what you need. In this brand new book, bestselling author David Pogue provides a no-nonsense guide to the entire process, including how to buy and use a digital camera, get the same photographic effects as the pros, manage the results on your Mac or PC, edit photos, and share the results with your adoring fans. Here are David's "Top Ten Tips of All Time" for digital photography.

[Publish Date: January 16, 2009]

CS-4U - Creative Stimulus For You! - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

By Rick Sammon

No doubt these are tough times - times that can get one down, emotionally and creatively. But heck, are you going to let a tanking stock market sink your digital imaging creativity? Hope not! However, if the winds have been knocked out of your creative sails, here are a few ideas that may stimulate the creative artist within. At the very least, I hope they distract your from the stock market chart, which looks like a bad - a very bad - histogram.

[Publish Date: March 06, 2009]

Speaker: Bob Goldstein: O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference ...

Bob Goldstein, CEO of Apeer Inc., has guided hundreds of businesses through the transition from traditional to digital imaging. He was founder and president of ZZYZX Visual Systems in Los Angeles, California, where he developed businesses in high volume image scanning, digital retouching, QTVR services, stock photo databases and digital distribution networks, fine art digital printing, interactive media projects, web site design, and digital photo studios. He then became president of the Altamira Group, which produced the Genuine Fractals line of digital imaging software. He is a senior analyst with the Future Image Report and has consulted with such companies as Eastman Kodak, Apple Computer and HP.

[Publish Date: February 09, 2009]

Black and White for the Digital Era - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

By Harold Davis

What is the appeal of black and white photography? After all, we see the world in color, and a gray day is emotionally perceived as depressing and monotonous. Historically, black and white is easy to understand. Monochrome photographic processes were invented long before color. Even once color arrived on the scene, it was largely "yellow box": you snapped the photo,...

[Publish Date: January 08, 2009]

Should You Choose to Accept - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

By Harold Davis

On Photo.net recently Hannah Thiem conducted an interview with me. I think it's the best exposition about my work to date. (Suprada Urval's excellent interview with me covered very different ground.) As part of the interview, Hannah and I proposed an assignment: Photograph a flower in a unique way—in a way that nobody’s seen before. The top three submissions are...

[Publish Date: February 05, 2009]

Changes - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

By Harold Davis

Since the world is always changing, photography is largely about capturing states of things---scenes, objects, or people---in the process of change. A single image can intimate the before, and the after, and resonate with events to come. This sense of time is what gives many photographic images their power. My process of working on photos after they've been taken is...

[Publish Date: February 01, 2009]

From Architecture to Fantasy - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

By Harold Davis

Between committments at Macworld at the Moscone Center I wandered over and indulged my dome photography habit by photographing the dome in the Westfield shopping mall in downtown San Francisco. I believe the dome itself is antique, but it's placed in an entirely modern shopping mall. Cameo, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. It's easy with most domes...

[Publish Date: January 22, 2009]