I found a few hours last night to catch up on two weeks worth of RSS feed joy.  Here’s what I found interesting and hope you will too.

Photo courstesy of raymondbPhotos via The Upgraders pool on Flickr.

from JMG Galleries

Flickr Collection on Getty: Why I’m Not Taking Part

Last week Flickr announced the launch of their second phase of the partnership with Getty Images.  This program provides Flickr uses the opportunity to sell certain photos through Getty’s services.  Jim provides an insightful view of the program with what he sees as the downfalls and risks.

from Digital Photography School

The Biggest Secret of Photography

DPS shares the most evasive of secrets in digital photography, you cannot take a photo if you don’t have a camera with you.  They follow-up with a poll asking Do You Take Your Digital Camera With You Everywhere?

DIY Lighting Hacks for Digital Photographers

How to Replace Sky in Photoshop

Two tutorials from DPS,doing what they do best.

from TWIPPHOTO.COM, Paul Burwell Photography, and Steve Creek Outdoors

10 Tips for Photographing Wildlife

Learning Wildlife Photography – Monopod Usage

Steve Creek Outdoors

Two articles on wildlife photography followed by Steve Creek’s blog where he practices his own tricks on various wildlife from my homestate of Arkansas.

from Camera Dojo

Understanding Exposure with the Exposure Triangle

A very good article for a beginning photographer or a refresher for the rest of us explaining how ISO, aperture and shutter speed relate.

from Time Outdoors

Time Outdoors is the blog of a Civil Engineer in North Carolina.  He is now preparing to fulfill a life-long goal of hiking the Appalachian trail and record his journey through photography.  This journey is a colossal undertaking.  After reading Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail) I’m looking forward to a first hand account as it happens.  Maybe someday Sherri and I will follow in their footsteps.

If you’d like to follow his journey I’d suggest you start here and then subscribe to his RSS feed.

Stay wide and be prepared to zoom!

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With an upcoming redesign of WorthPoint, I’ve been knee-deep in the development of a new Wordpress theme, definitely a new venture for me.  I haven’t had the opportunity to get my hands dirty and develop anything for quite awhile professionally.  While I’m putting the theme together, most of the heavy lifting is being provided by our crack staff in Columbus, OH (thanks Jason).  This effort is keeping me busy but its nice to be part of a development team again and not just managing the schedules.

I’ve ignored my RSS feeds for most of the week but slowly catching up this evening.  Here’s the ones that caught my eye and another great photo from The Upgraders group at Flickr.

By the way, you can find these bookmarks and more on the new Digital Photography Community over at Mixx.  Join me there won’t you?

Least Sandpiper; Photo courtesy of jameslj of The Upgraders group on Flickr.

from Digital Photography School

10 Ways to Top Your Best 2008 Photographs

What everybody Ought to Know About Posing for Portraits

DPS released a new redesign of their site and structure this week. Stop over and check it out.

from Jason D. Moore Photography

Workflow Friday:  Michael Garlington

from Photoinduced.com

Real World Review – Canon G10 – A Weighty Decision in the Point and Shoot World

I normally will not list hardware reviews but being a Canon S5 owner I am interested in it’s successor, the G10.

from Martin Pot – Photography Blog

10 Reasons For Getting Your Kids Into Photography

My daughter took up photography without any encouragement from us but our son is less inclined.  This post shows good examples of why photography for kids can be fun and beneficial.  there is a great shot of Martin’s 10 year old son with a lens that probably larger than his head but he’s holding it like a pro.  This is a follow-up to his previous Getting Your Kids Started In Photography post (first the how, then the why).

from XposurePro

How to Photograph Lightning

Tips for taking and extremely good examples of lightning photos.  I’ll have to revisit this post in the summer months.

from Change.gov, The Office of the President-elect

The official presidential portrait of Barack Obama has been released.  It was taken by the newly announced White House photographer, Pete Souza.  What makes this newsworthy for this blog is that it was the first presidential portrait taken with a digital camera, a Canon 5D MKII.  Take that Nikon!

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Darkest Sound; Photo courtesy of Scott Hall of The Upgraders group on Flickr.

Here’s what I’m reading this week:

The Photographer’s Rights

Your rights and remedies when stopped or confronted for photography.  Written by Bert P. Krages II, an attorney from Oregon.  This is an interesting read as Bert does a good job presenting the can’s and cannot’s of public photography. (PDF file)

from Digital Photography School

How to achieve a shallow depth of field with a point and shoot?

Playing with Fire – How to Photograph Fire

How to Photograph a Convention

From my favorite source of digital photography learning on the web comes three good subjects this week.  The first is a forum topic and the next two are blog posts.

from XposurePro

How to photograph star trails – Top Star Trail Photographs on Flickr

Even if you’re not interested in taking shots like this you need to go check out the photos here.

from DIYPhotography.net

Stabilizing Your Camera In A Driving Car

Go read this – like you’ve never taken a photo while driving your car

from Photojojo

Sensor Dust is Evil.  Here’s How to Banish It.

The last of my how-to links this week.  Good overview of the how’s and why’s of sensor cleaning.

from New Media Photographer

Would Ansel Adams be a great digital photographer?

This post includes a 17 minute video of an interview with Ansel Adam’s son, Michael.  The discussion concerns Adam’s mastery of his equipment and post-processing in his darkroom to create images not quite in line with reality.  He would probably be a master of Photoshop today.

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Every Friday I plan to start posting interesting links that would be of interest to beginning to intermediate photographers (and maybe even you more advanced readers might find something you didn’t know too).  I’ll also highlight a few of the great photos in The Upgraders group on Flickr (you can see more in the widget on the right).

Photo courtesy of Juveelord on Flickr.

Here’s what I’m reading this week:

Operation Photo Rescue

If you are looking to fulfill that resolution you just made to volunteer more, here is your chance to achieve it while employing your love of photography.  OPR is a “Volunteer network of professional photojournalists and amateur digital photographers, graphic designers, image restoration artists and others. OPR’s mission is to repair photographs damaged by unforeseen circumstances such as house fires and natural disasters at no cost to the people who own them.” They’re looking both for volunteers and funds to help support their very worthwhile cause.  If you are able to donate time then visit their website for details.  If you can donate money then visit their Facebook Cause page.

from Digital Photography School

21 Settings, Techniques and Rules All New Camera Owners Should Know

10 Hot Photography Tips and Tutorials from 2008

DPS has published two great collections of links for the new digital photographer.  This is a great time of year for these posts as there are many with new Christmas cameras.

from Photojojo

New Year’s Just Ain’t New Year’s Without Photo Resolutions. Happy 2009!

from Scott Kelby’s Photoshop Insider

Happy New Years (from my 80s disco band)

My apologies to Scott but as a fan and a child of the 80s myself I cannot let this pass.  Scott has graciously, or maybe it was by force, posted a picture of his ’80s disco band, Rumor Hazit in his New Years wishes.  Its a must see for any fan of Scott (you know who you are)!

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