PictoBrowser make photo slideshow for website or blog
PictoBrowser - Free Picasa and Flickr slideshow for your website or blog.
PictoBrowser is a neat slideshow builder that helps you to easily display your Picasa or Flickr photographs on your website or blog. See the example slideshow below, built from one of my Flickr sets.
How to build your own photo slideshow
This photo slideshow tool is very easy to use and recommended for all skill levels. You simply load the online builder, type in your Picasa or Flickr screen name, then customize to your liking. Once completed, mouse click the tab that says ‘Get HTML Code’ to copy and paste into your blog or website. Can’t be easier than that!
PictoBrowser is freely available as an online slideshow builder at: PictoBrowser
Or as a Wordpress plugin, offered as a free download from: Kumara Sastry
Requirements
All you need is a website or blog, as well as a Picasa or Flickr account.
Photography podcasts, download free photography podcasts 530 episodes
Photography Podcasts including 530 Episodes
Shown below is a list of photography podcasts that I have found useful for photographic information and inspiration. All the photography podcasts are free to download. Many you can subscribe to through itunes, for a regular fix of encouragement. Others, you can download to your PC / MAC, or view from the website. Either way, they are definitely some of the best photography podcasts I have come across to date …. Enjoy!
Free Video Podcasts For Photographers
1. Chase Jarvis Photography IPod / IPhone edition - download 27 free podcasts from 
These podcasts include behind the scene video footage of how award winning Chase Jarvis creates his images. Podcasts include: High Speed Photography, Packing Photography Gear, High Speed Strobed Sequences.
2. Within The Frame Podcasts - download full free 20 podcasts from Peachpit
3. Pixel Perfect (Large Quicktime) - download 25 episodes from
Learn Photoshop and Illustrator tips from digital artist Bert Monroy. Podcasts include: Color management, skin softening, moonlit landscapes.
4. 10 Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips - download from
Get a weekly dose of Photoshop Lightroom tips for digital photographers including: importing RAW+ JPEG’s into Lightroom, merging multiple Lightroom catalogs, sharpening workflow, tips for laying out prints, saving files between Lightroom and Photoshop and much more.
5. Photo Walkthrough - download from
31 quality video podcast tutorials on post processing photographs.
Free Audio Podcasts For Photographers
1. Depth of Field with Matt Brandon - Download 8 episodes from Peachpit
Listen to humanitarian and world/travel photographer Matt Brandon, as he talks about the lives and adventures of working
photographers from around the world including: David duChemin, Matt Brandon and Gavin Gough.
2. Digital Photography Tips from the Top Floor - download 50 episodes from
Includes both audio and video podcasts. Non tech, short tips you can put into action straight away. Includes tips on wedding photography, prime lenses, light, preparing for exhibitions, focus rings, Q&A’s and much more.
3. The Candid Frame A Photography Podcast - download 23 audio podcasts from
Interview podcast where you’ll be inspired by the thoughts of established and emerging photographers including: Nadine Brown, Dane Sanders, Dan Winters and others.
4. Martin Bailey Photography Podcast - download 237 episodes from
One of my favorite podcast subscriptions, includes tips like indoor portraits, ambient light, interviews, assignments, fine art prints, IPhone apps for photographers, camera gear and equipment and much more.
5. TPN Digital Photography Show - download 98 episodes from
Digital photography tips and tricks. Useful and lighthearted look at digital photography.
If you have any podcast favorites of your own, feel free to mention them in your comments so we all can share 
Buy a cable release for your SLR camera
Quick Photography Tips:
Quick photography tips for those who don’t like reading or just don’t have the time!
#10 Why you should buy a cable release for your SLR camera
Tip 9 talked about turning off the image stabilization on your lens when you have an SLR camera sitting on a tripod. If you followed this advice, you should have noticed sharper results.
“Hey, I want even sharper photographs” I hear you say! Instead of pressing the shutter button down yourself, invest in a cable release for your SLR camera.
I can’t count the amount of times I’ve seen photographers with tripods, but no cable release. Doesn’t this defeat the purpose? The reason photographers use tripods, is to reduce camera movement when taking photographs. So why touch the camera at all? Use a cable release instead!
when to turn off IS and VR
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Quick photography tips for those who don’t like reading or just don’t have the time!
#9 When to turn off IS (image stabilization) and VR (vibration reduction)
Many DSLR camera lenses now come with an option to turn off IS (image stabilization for Canon) or VR (vibration reduction for Nikon). You’ll find this on / off switch on the side of the actual lens. One thing I’ve noticed with friends and family who are just starting out in SLR photography, is that they tend to turn this on and never touch it again. However, there are times when you should turn it off.
For example, I was photographing the Sydney Opera House recently with a Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L IS lens, and for the life of me, I could not get a sharp image. Then it hit me, because I had my camera sitting on a tripod, I turned off the image stabilization and bam I suddenly got sharp photo’s. When IS / VR is turned on, it causes the camera to look for vibrations, which in turn, can cause vibrations.
So next time you have your camera sitting on a tripod, turn off that IS / VR switch on the side of your lens for sharper results.
DSLR camera user manuals on your iphone
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Quick photography tips for those who don’t like reading or just don’t have the time!
#8 Read your digital SLR user manual from your iphone
Before I purchased an IPhone, I use to carry around manuals in my camera bag for numerous pieces of equipment, including: camera EOS manuals, lens manuals, flash manuals and so forth. Then I discovered a neat little IPhone application called, PDF Expert, which in short is a professional PDF documents reader.
Now whenever I purchase a new piece of equipment, I transfer the PDF user manual into my IPhone documents reader. Saves carrying around extra weight in my camera bag. The IPhone application also has a good search function, so no more looking through the manual book for exactly the information I’m after. It’s fast, efficient and very user friendly. Click the iTunes button below to download the application.
How to better focus with a macro lens
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Quick photography tips for those who don’t like reading or just don’t have the time!
#7 How to better focus with a macro lens
Anyone who’s purchased a dedicated macro lens, will understand what I’m talking about when I mention ‘the lens swimming’, if set on auto focus. This is especially true when photographing moving bugs and insects. One of the best ways to overcome this is to turn off your lens automatic focus, placing it in manual mode instead. It’s really not as hard as it sounds to focus manually, it just takes a little practice. Personally I support the DSLR, with my left hand underneath the camera, moving the focus ring with my fingers.
Photography - smooth backgrounds with telephoto lenses
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Quick photography tips for those who don’t like reading or just don’t have the time!
#6 How to get a smooth or faded background in your photo’s with a telephoto lens
Achieving a smooth background in your photographs isn’t as hard as it first seems for beginners. Firstly, set your camera’s F-stop to a low number, for example, 4.0. Secondly zoom your telephoto lens out. In the example below, I had mine zoomed out to 200mm focal length. Then move as close to your subject as possible, while still allowing you to focus properly and take your shot. The lower the F number, the more zoomed out your lens, and the closer you are to your subject, the nicer the smoothness.
photographing portraits with a dedicated macro lens
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Quick photography tips for those who don’t like reading or just don’t have the time!
#5 Use a dedicated macro lens for portraits
Macro lenses aren’t just for flowers and insects. A dedicated macro lens can also be your best portrait lens. Take this wedding portrait below for example. It was photographed with a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens. A fast F/2.8 was perfect for indoor lighting.
How to photograph through glass or cages
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Quick photography tips for those who don’t like reading or just don’t have the time!
#4 How to photograph through glass or cages
If you’re at the zoo and are faced with an animal that is caged or behind a glass window, zoom your lens all the way out to its maximum length, stand as close to the glass or cage as possible, then focus through the glass and onto the animal. If your lens doesn’t do this automatically, then turn the focus ring yourself manually to show the camera exactly where you want to focus. Also make sure you’re not standing in front of a crack or scratch in the glass. Otherwise the camera might want to focus on that instead.
poor mans multi point star filter effect
Quick Photography Tips:
Quick photography tips for those who don’t like reading or just don’t have the time!
#3 How to use your camera settings to get a multi point star filter effect
If you’re a photographer who likes multi point star effects, but don’t
want to lay out the cash for a filter, you can get a similar effect by
setting your camera’s F-stop from anywhere between f/11 and f/22,
depending on the circumstances.
