Friday is here - and here’s a little bit of inspiration for you. Smashing Apps has a collection of 23 photo’s that you’d believe were photoshopped, but aren’t.
A little site news here.
I’ve added a new page - Stock Images. Here you can browse and search for free stock photos and images from Big Stock Photo all without leaving the comforts of this site.
I hope you’ll take advantage of it.
Smashing Magazine has a line-up of 35 stunning photographs of cities, monuments and landmarks.
It’s well worth a look.
35 Examples Of Beautiful City Photography
Here’s a list of 60 great Photoshop actions geared towards retouching, tweaking and color-correcting your photo’s. They range from mildly interesting to some really excellent actions. DesignM.ag has the action on the actions…
I know, I know - I’m sorry…
60 Photoshop Actions for Photo Touch-Ups and Enhancements
Boston.com has an article with some incredible pictures of London taken at night from a helicopter. The photographer Jason Hawkes shot these images with a camera attached to gyro-stabilized mounts from a Eurocopter AS355, using Nikon gear and either a 14-24mm or a 70-200mm lens. Awesome!
More of London from above, at night
Here’s some great tips for saving some money when it comes to lighting for your digital photography.
Check it out over at Digital Photography School.
DIY Lighting Hacks for Digital Photographers
More good stuff from Smashing Apps. A list of 31 texture packs - ranging from low rez to great high-rez textures for use in your photo-montages, digital art etc. You can never have too much stock imagery in my opinion.
Collection of 31 High Quality Texture Packs
Canon recently released the EOS 5D Mark II digital SLR as the successor to the excellent 5D. The Canon EOS 5D Mark II features a full-frame 21.1 megapixel CMOS sensor, HD movie recording capabilities and a DIGIC 4 Imaging Processor. StevesDigicams has an exhaustive review below.
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
If you haven’t seen it yet - here’s the 1474 megapixel photo that David Bergman took of President Obama’s inaugural Adress. Follow the below link to read about it.









