Photography Links: social change and political change, photography blogs.

Social / Political change through Photography:

Photography contest promotes healthy image of aboriginal peoples

Lesbian Photography - Blatant Image

Tee Corinne, Photographer

Discussion on Representation of the Female Form in Photography

Photography blogs:

FEM Photo Blog

mjau

Silly Photo Stuff - Celebrity Lookalikes!

http://www.myheritage.com

BBC Britain in Pictures

The BBC had a recent series on BBC4, called Britain in Pictures, where photographers were encouraged to send in their photos of Britain's buildings. For recent weeks, a 'red button' channel on the BBC's digital network has been showing some of the pictures, in rotation, that members of the public have submitted.

I was rather overjoyed to find that (at least) 3 of my photos were shown on TV.

These were:

Manor Lodge, Sheffield


Hutton's Buildings, Sheffield


and Scarborough Castle

Interesting Links

Been gathering these for too long, without posting. Apologies, therefore, for length and lack of form!

The Center for Fine Art Photography

Kiyoji Otsuji's photo art : Arts Weekend : Features : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)

San Francisco Sentinel » Blog Archives » HIROSHI SUGIMOTO – Retrospective of photographer’s work at the de Young Museum, July 7th – September 23rd

Photographs of Photographers. Shame that pornification gets everywhere though >:-(

'Real Photographer' Keith Arnatt At The Photographers' Gallery - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage

Royalty free photography on SnapVillage | Digital Camera Review

Teaching photography just one part of Greg Spira’s plan to help indigenous Bolivian women find a political voice

Understanding Histograms

Introduction to Filters for DSLRs

northjersey.com - Montclair Times Community

BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Photos bridge Arab-Israeli divide

How to love photography | Reviews | Visual Arts | Arts | Telegraph

Your majesty, you were one of the luckier subjects . . . - Times Online

TrustedReviews - Photography Tutorial – Dynamic Range And How To Fake It

Making a Modern Photo Look 'Vintage' using Elements.

Turning this:

into this:

1. Open the image you want to work on


2. Check you are working in 'RGB' mode (Image > Mode >RGB)


3. Duplicate background layer


4. Window > Artwork & Effects


5. In the Artwork & Effects palette on the right, choose the third icon along, then below, choose Photo Effects and Image Effects


6. Highlight 'Tint Sepia' and drag the highlighted icon onto your image


7. Filter > Noise > Add Noise


8. Alter this as appropriate


9. Bottom left - set foreground colour to a cream colour


10. Layer > Fill Layer > Solid Colour
    
11. Select the cream colour you chose. OK


12. With your Colour Fill layer highlighted, but its 'eye' icon deselected (so you are working on the fill layer, but can't see it), use Elliptical Marquee Tool to draw an oval around the part of the image to be framed. Use the arrow keys to move the shape around


13. Select > Feather > 25 (or so, experiment!)


14. Make sure the Colour Fill layer is selected, and select the 'eye' icon to its left, then Edit > Delete


15. This will show you the image in sepia, surrounded by a cream frame


16. When you are happy, Select > Deselect


17. If the framed image is off-centre, then Layer > Merge Down will merge the frame and sepia layers


18. Highlight Background Copy layer and Fill Layer as before, using exactly the same Foreground colour which should still be selected


19. Reselect sepia framed layer and select the Move tool. Move the image to a central point, then deselect


20. Layer > Flatten image