YouTube – Food Ad Tricks: Helping Kids Understand Food Ads on TV.

For the record, I’ve always believed that a somewhat unsharp portrait lens is actually more accurate than a clinically sharp one. Not more accurate to the forensic reality, perhaps, but truer to the way our brains perceive faces: we are very good indeed at seeing faces, and we tend to reflexively emphasize the enduring features [...]

Glass presents two problems to the photographer that make it difficult to light. First is the reflective nature of its surfaces, and second is the way glass transmits light. While there are several standard approaches to solve the problems involved with lighting glass, understanding the basic nature of light’s interactions with the glass gives you [...]

Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5 L II Tilt-Shift Lens Review.
One more in the list of lenses I would love to have but can’t quite justify and definitely can’t afford.

Panasonic Leica 45mm F2.8 Macro OIS Lens Review: 1. Introduction: Digital Photography Review.

Epson Stylus Pro 3880 Hands-On Review.

Digital Night Photography: Test Exposures, Noise Reduction, and Image Stacking « Joe Reifer.
Dawn has been asking about techniques for night exposures. Here’s another of the types of things that night photographers do. “Stacking” multiple exposures is a way to get rid of some of the noise that comes from long exposures by averaging it out–this [...]

The very idea of a set-side, aka: National Park, is an idea that separates man from nature – indeed an idea that, at its core, separates man from his very nature as an integral part of nature. We are it. It is us.
via Photography that aims at being true, not at being beautiful because, what [...]

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 Review | Digital Camera Resource Page.
Worth reading even if you have already purchased a GF1 just to see some of the tips about software, configuration, and controls.

The Online Photographer: What Does Expensive Mean?.

Chad Kirkpatrick – Witness to Beauty – DESIGN and PHOTOGRAPHY | Canon Tilt/Shift Lens Reviews.
Reviews of the new Canon 17 and 24 MkII TS-E lenses.

 
Robert Frank’s Elevator Girl Sees Herself Years Later : NPR
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Panasonic DMC-GF1 Hands on Preview: 1. Introduction: Digital Photography Review.
Could this be the camera that makes the Micro 4/3 system viable? It sure seems like it.

I normally don’t let my battery run down too far I decided to see how far I could take it and, even with a bit of Live View thrown in and plenty of review and playback, I got 833 pictures on 1 charge in the 5D MkII. I still have about 1% battery left but [...]

7 Photography Projects to Jumpstart your Creativity.
A few interesting possiblities here, including the idea of doing a photowalk every week and creating a 100 strangers project.

Polychrome II Nice pictures of the polychrome wood in the Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal, and a few sentences about the typical character of Canadians.