Blog Posts That Caught My Attention This Week

Jake Garn published a video tutorial on dodging and burning in Photoshop to enhance portraits. The tutorial guides you through a process of enhancing images with those tools in 15 minutes. Check it out here.

Stephen from Appletell thinks that Apple displays suck. Good post with some interesting points. Go here to read it.

Freelanceswitch focuses on actions to get things done. Read it and use it. I found some good advice for myself.

Remember my article on using more than one library in Aperture? Ben Long from Inside Aperture has a different opinion. He calls his post: One Library To Rule Them All. He offers good arguments in favor for using one library.

Of course, David Hobby had a couple of good posts this week. I liked Assisting On The James Balog Iceberg Shoot for several reasons.

• David’s approach of sharing encourages other photographers and assistants to share their experience.
• Strobelights are used in a landscape photography context, where you wouldn’t normally expect it.
• Jeff, who wrote the article gives great hints on how to work with Nikon’s CLS (Creative Lighting System) in very difficult circumstances, where you wouldn’t expect the system to work and would normally use remote triggers like Pocket Wizards.
• The post forced me check my camera manual!
• The results are amazing. Check them here at Nikon. There is also a video giving some more background info.

If you are a .Mac user, you can learn here, how to embed the .Mac Web Gallery into your own domain. Mac OS X Hints is a great resource for tips and tricks, using Macs.