Canon has announced the new Canon EOS 7D DLSR camera. This is the replacement for the Canon EOS 50D.

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This is the final part of my photographic process where I discussed sharpening in part 1, curves in part 2 and color balance in part 3.

As before, I do all of these in Adobe Photoshop.

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Girl doing a flip on the bungee trampoline.

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Jan Oliehoek is a photo manipulator from Leiden, Netherlands. He’s an expert in combining photos and making them into something photorealistic, but impossible.

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This is part 3 of my photographic process where I discussed sharpening in part 1 and curves in part 2.

In this article, I’ll be showing you how I adjust color balance to get the right the color in my photos right to where I remember them.

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This is part two on my photographic process.

After making sure I’m happy with the details of the photo. I move on to adjusting the colors. As you can see from the original photo, it’s a bit dull. There’s a bluish tint which makes the photo too cool for my taste. Basically for me, it feels like there’s a thin veil of gray in front of it.

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Here’s a video of a girl trying out the trampoline at the base of Blackcomb Mountain in Whistler, BC.

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As I got to the base of Blackcomb Mountain, I saw that there was several activities for children like mini golf, bungee trampoline, rope bridge, pony rides, etc.

I’ve never been to Whistler during the summer so this is the first time I found out there was some summer activities for kids.

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Today I’m going to show you my photographic process. Basically, after I have taken a photo and uploaded it to my computer. I check them over for color, sharpness and composition in Photoshop.

Here are the step by step process I use.

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So you’ve bought that expensive camera, you’ve taken photography lessons, you’ve read my blog (I hope). You’ve taken those wonderful photos of your kids or that amazing landscape. Then you upload your photos to your computer and they look horrible. What happened?

One of the things that new photographers forget is to calibrate their monitors.

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Here are some photos I took of my trip to Whistler, British Columbia over the weekend. Whistler is about 2 to 2.5 hours drive from Vancouver. Whistler is the host of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games which will be held from February 12 to 28 and March 12 to 21 for the Paralymic games.

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Canon announced the new Canon Powershot S90 which will be available September 2009.

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Canon announced the release of the Canon Powershot G11 today. It is the replacement for the Canon Powershot G10.

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There’s been several articles I’ve seen on the Internet where a photographer was harrased by police officers or security personnel for taking photos of something. It could be a building, a person or an event saying that taking photos is an act of terrorism or illegal.

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Recent photos of the candidates for this year’s Pasigarbo queen

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From Filipina on Flip Flops: Travel Tales and the City Life of a Filipina

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Southgate Mall opened yesterday – pay day, the new mall located in front of the MRT Magallanes/Mantrade Station in Makati City.

This is the same property that many are very familiar with – the forever under construction Southgate Tower. It isn’t anymore, after it was bought by Alphaland Corp, whose Chair and CEO, the former trade and industry czar Roberto Ongpin.

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Storefront in Steveston in Richmond, British Columbia.

They always have a classic look which is in keeping to the theme of the community.

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Kanta ng Metallica na ‘Enter Sandman’ ang parating kinakanta ng utak ko habang papalanding na yun KLM flght sa Schipol Airport Amsterdam. Papunta kasi ako sa Brussels, Belgium at ang connecting airport ko ay sa Amsterdam. Di na talaga na-correct yun maling lyrics na nabasa ko dati na ang sabi eh… ‘taaaayke my hends…off to Nether-Netherlands’, kaya tuloy yung kanta na yun ang parating nasa utak ko.
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I’ve been trying to expand my photographic skills and I wanted to try to learn portraiture. Since my last attempt didn’t work out so well. I kept my eyes open for another opportunity.

In the meantime, I’ve been researching some photography blogs to give me an idea of what poses would be nice.

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