I’ve never attempt time-lapse photography, but I want to play around with it someday. This just gives me all the more reason. Amazing that this was done with a still camera!

DIYPhotography.net is a great place to browse for ideas on building your own equipment, especially lighting & studio equipment. Take a look at just a few of their step-by-step guides to creating totally new looks for your images!

So I’m not yet what one might call “up-to-date.” I’m gettin’ there.
On 18 February Art Wolfe had a great post by guest blogger Canadian photographer & writer Younes Bounhar called FINDING YOUR STYLE. In it, Bounhar offers five tips to help any photographer – professional, hobbyist or otherwise – better define their own personal style:

Study the work of other artists
Get off the beaten path
Try something different
Break the rules
Take photography workshops

Each tip includes a paragraph or two with some great thoughts on how to solidify your personality into each of your photos. …

Get some great tips on beginning – & keeping – your own photography business.

For anyone out there even remotely interested in photography, Photoshop, and/or web design, there’s this ultra-hip Seattle-based organization called CreativeTechs. Their primary focus is offering Mac support for small-to-mid sized companies, but that’s not why I’m posting about them today (although I have every reason to believe they excel at such things).
I bring them up here to raise awareness of their absolutely STELLAR live – & free – online training webinars. I’ve been attending since their June 2009 4-week photography class hosted by John Greengo – Art Wolfe’s photography assistant …

It’s worth mentioning something I’ve heard a great deal about & truthfully have long known, at least logically: photography’s tough. Bear in mind, when I refer to photography here I’m referring to all that the term encompasses: organizing, sorting, tagging, captioning, copyrighting, retouching, processing, to say nothing of actually taking the photo…