Alaskan Rainbow photo by Eric Rolph

A Rainbow is something that has the power to stop you in your tracks when it unexpectedly appears when you’re least expecting to see one. They’re beautiful - but how do you photograph a rainbow?

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By Ray Silcox

POTTSVILLE (Aug. 5, 2007) - With recovery efforts into its third day in Minneapolis after the collapse of Interstate 35w, attention has turned to our local bridges, those bridges our families and neighbors drive over everyday and which pose the question, “Could the same thing happen here ?”

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10 Low Cost Ideas

Marketing your photography studio does not have to be expensive. I’ve used hundreds of low cost marketing strategies over the last twenty five years and managed to build my photography studio to the point where I am one the busiest and most successful studios in my city. Here’s a few tips for you:

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Anyone with the right camera equipment, and the necessary skills can set up a home business, marketing photography. You need only to convert a room of your house into an office, and then you can work immediately.

With modern technology in the form of SLR digital cameras, you do not even need the room for a dark room. You need only to have a personal computer and a photo-editing program. The standard is Adobe Photoshop.

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By Idan Lavi

One of the biggest benefits of digital photography over regular film picture taking is the fact these little devices actually give a photographer instant access to many different special effects. One of the most spectacular of these effects is the ability digital photography gives to switch instantly from color to black and white exposures. Rather than having to change out film types or drain color from a shot on a computer screen, digital photography does this on the spot.

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By RACHEL KONRAD
AP Technology Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Mar 27 - A new version of Adobe Systems Inc.’s Creative Suite software will go on sale next month, a launch that executives have billed as the most significant in the company’s 25-year history.

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By James Monahan

The first date. A grand wedding. The child’s first walk. A newborn. The sunset. An impeding storm. Leaves falling from the branch of a tree. The first birthday. The beach party. The housewarming. A reunion. Christmas. The annual Thanksgiving.

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By James Hunt

Photoshop is a computer program that can greatly enhance the images in your life. You can manipulate photos or home videos with photoshop to look or sound a certain way. You can do many things with this program; you can change images, backgrounds and graphics- all in the comfort of your own home. With a program like photoshop, who needs professionals anymore? You can become the professional and save yourself time and money by doing the work on your pictures and videos yourself.

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By B.L. Hill

Lighting your subject is, obviously, very important for the successful capture of the “perfect” image. The type and intensity of the light can dramatically change the mood of the photograph. Sometimes the effect is not obvious until the picture is developed. Even with the digital camera, although you can see an image immediately, the size of the view screen makes it difficult to notice some of the differences.

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By James Hunt

You’ve probably seen countless numbers of them, as you’ve grown up; family photo albums, collections of photos from vacations and special events, photo albums that provide a pictorial documentation of a child’s walk through life. Whether you’ve spent hours pouring over them or groaned every time that they’re pulled out, chances are that someone in your family has an addiction to photo albums. Providing a visual reference to relatives and happy times, photo albums have long been a tradition in many homes.

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