UPDATE: Bragging Rights Photo Competition

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Last week, we announced our upcoming photography competition entitled the Bragging Rights Photo Competition which begins in March.  This week, we are giving you a little more information about how to enter the competition and how to vote once the competition is up and running. Instructions and Guidelines When registration begins in March 2015, you will find all the information …

COMING SOON: Bragging Rights Photo Competition

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HardimanImages.com will soon be introducing an online monthly photo competition that will begin in March 2015.  The competition will run monthly and is intended to promote and encourage photographers of all skill levels to share their talent and show others how they “SEE” the world around them. There will be a different theme each month.  First, Second and Third Place …

Avian Reconditioning Center

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Located in Apopka, Florida is a wonderful facility that dedicates itself to the rehabilitation of raptors that have found themselves unable to survive in nature.  This location has been in operation since 2001 and has been open to the public since 2004.  Beyond rescuing birds-of-prey, they also conduct public education programmes and research. Carol and Scott McCorkle co-founded the Centre …

Andersonville National Cemetery

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Two years ago, Jim and I watched the Ken Burns documentary film entitled “The Civil War” and when we had finished watching all the episodes, we talked about visiting some of the American Civil War sites one day – one of them being the Andersonville Prison in Georgia.  This October we did just that. As we were making plans for …

Using Photoshop® to Edit Rim-Lit Subjects Using Luminance Selections

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This Quicktip video demonstrates how to set up for a Rim-Lit subject and then how to use Luminance Selections in Photoshop to make editing easy and quick. I learned how to set-up the photograph from Wallace Weeks at the Orlando Camera Club.  Luminance selections are very useful when trying to select transparent objects.  This video is best watched in full-screen. …

Glass Rim Lighting/Luminance Masking

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Last night we got together with a couple of friends to do some learning about “radical rim light”.  Our friends made some wonderful images and I thought that I would post one of my own.  I have taken several photos of this glass, however, in this one, I added a little different lighting to achieve the colour that you see …