A photo a day form planet earth

Today one of my photos got featured in A Photo a Day from Planet Earth, a photographic blog where, as its owner explains: There will be a picture posted daily taken somewhere on this Planet.
Among many interesting submissions, this one really amazed me
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Join the Red Bubble

Red Bubble is an artists community and site where anyone can display and sell their own artwork (prints, greeting cards and t-shirts) and also share their writings. It’s relatively new but already counts a lot of members from all over the world and it promises to become a valid alternative to Flickr and Imagekind.com.
I decided [...]

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Flatbed scanner photography

One of the things you’ll start doing once you have your flatbed scanner is starting to photograph objects with it. It’s a fascinating technique which I’ve just began to explore. It seems to me it can give great and stunning results.
In this article you’ll find tips on how to get the best out of your [...]

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Digital Lith Prints

As I’ve previously mentioned I use B&W Styler Pro photoshop plug-in to convert my photographs from color to black and white. One of the many interesting filters that come with B&W Styler Pro is the lith film filter. I must admit my knowledge about lith film and prints was shamefully scarce until I came [...]

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Converting to B&W – My experience with B&W Styler Pro

I really like B&W photography even though I’ve never really practiced it. With the advent of digital cameras I rediscovered the tremendous visual potential a black and white image can have. I did a web search and found lots of tutorials (here), on how to convert from color to B&W but then I felt the [...]

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Imagekind.com featured memeber

Well, I woke up this morning and saw I’m today’s Imagekind.com featured member Nice surprise indeed!

Technorati Tags: imagekind, silvia+ganora, prints+for+sale

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To clone out the paper cup or not to clone it out?

Paper cup and green wood – ©2007 – Silvia Ganora
I usually make use of the clone tool at the beginning of my workflow to clean the image of dirt and dust spots. I seldom use it to clone out main elements of the scene, thus substantially altering the scene itself – apart from occasional disturbing [...]

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Flowers under a different light

I picked out the following photos from my archive to show how sometimes we can take shots of flowers in a way that presents them under a different light. What do I mean by different light? Simply that flowers are not only good subjects for birthday postcards, calendars or stylish still-lives. If we are curious [...]

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Black and white, color or both?

At the beginning of the year, I decided I had to have another photoblog for my black and white photography. I had been experimenting in PS and had come up with a considerable amount of shots I was ready to show off.
I’ve always been shooting color and only after I bought my digital camera I [...]

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Got my ImageKind mediakit!

As you can tell from the badge at the bottom of every post in this blog, I now have a free gallery on ImageKind.com site. ImageKind is a relatively new printing service for artists. They offer a wide choice of high quality papers along with framing and matting.
They are now offering a book of their [...]

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