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At the End of the Day–
There was a time when making a phone call involved a person from the phone company physically pulling out a wire and then plugging that wire into a socket so that a caller could connect to whoever was being called. Now, those operators are gone and the industry runs so [...]

A Beginners’ Guide to Flash Photography-
Understanding the Studio Strobe Flash-
Part 64–
Other Issues to Consider
in Buying Studio Flash
The fast paced advancement of technology in designing and manufacturing of studio flash make it one of those gadgets that always comes with something new feature every time a new model is introduced in the market.
There is however some [...]

Your photos (4)–
An interesting article on the PetaPixel site last January caught my eye. The author, Michael Zhang was asking if people recognized great photography. He says he was inspired by the social experiment of Washington Post writer Gene Weingarten in 2007. Joshua Bell, a great and well-known violinist had just held an all-sold-out concert [...]

What’s it all about?
When looking good isn’t enough anymore
Turn, Turn, Turn
Ref.
To Everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
And a time to every purpose, under Heaven
A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time [...]

Guides on Resizing in Photoshop (Last Part)–
7.  Smart Objects
To minimize the loss in quality whenever you change (transform) the size of elements in an image, Adobe introduced Smart Objects in Photoshop CS2.
Smart Objects are special kind of layers (Image 15) that preserve its source content with all its original characteristics, allowing you to perform non-destructive [...]

Easing Pain with Pictures–
We start today’s column with some helpful news.
In the news last week was a study by scientists at Stanford University that looking at pictures of people you love can reduce the pain that you may be experiencing. These scientists used MRI brain scans while applying different levels of heat on the skin [...]

Making Yourself Look Good (Part V)-
There’s more to looking good–
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title:–Romeo, doff thy name;
And for that name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myself. [...]