Digital Photography. Do We Really Need All These Mega Pixels?

Author: admin  //  Category: Pixel Outpost
What a day yeasterday was! I awoke feeling like some vicious dwarf had spent the complete evening sanding my throat with sandpaper while brutally swapping my grey matter with lime green jelly… yup I had man flu.  The morning didn’t get that much better as I then spent what felt like an age driving around Northampton General Hospital hopelessly striving to park so that my son could show up at his hearin...

Is Pixel Advertising Dead?

Author: admin  //  Category: Pixel Outpost
A popular question which is being posted around the internet by the business gurus of the internet. After the runaway success of Mr. Alex Tew of a certain homepage. Well I felt like it’s time that someone started putting across a few points after all the negative media that this question is attracting. The Answer is simple NO Alex Tew gave birth to a new and exiting form of advertising medi...

Pixel Advertising: Fad or Trend?

Author: admin  //  Category: Pixel Outpost
Pixel advertising is an innovative marketing concept introduced by 22-year-old Alex Tew that allows advertisers to buy advertising space on a per-pixel cost basis. The more pixels an advertiser buys, the larger their ad and the greater the chance that it will be clicked on. Selling one million pixels at $1 each, Alex’s Million Dollar Homepage has created quite a buzz in the news media and has easily reached i...

How to Shoot With an Extremely Shallow Depth-of-Field

Author: admin  //  Category: Photo Blog
So you’ve saved every penny, and your piggy bank is full to bursting. It’s time to cash that in money and buy a new lens. And what better choice than a fast prime lens? These offer plenty of benefit’s, and we’re going to dive into one of those benefit’s today: that shallow, professional and silky shallow depth of field. Read more… ...

100 Beautiful Examples of Backlit Photography

Author: admin  //  Category: Photo Blog
Recently, we looked at how to set up amazing silhouette shots using strong backlighting. Today we’ll see that silhouettes are just one possibility for what to do with a good backlight. Creative backlighting seems to be extremely common in nature photography, but can produce excellent effects in other areas like portraiture as well. Here are 100 beautifully backlit photos to give you some ideas for how to setu...

Digital Archiving Workflow for Beginners

Author: admin  //  Category: Photo Blog
In this video, we take a look at how best to import, convert, rename and archive digital photography files. Solutions for backing up images and working with a Digital Asset Management system are also explored. It’s a great introduction to your media workflow! Watch the VideoWhat to Expect Read more… ...