So I was schmoozing through my inbox today and saw a new one from Photojojo. Looks like Jenelle Norris has posted her entire book about how to manipulate 600 and Spectra Polaroid… FO’ FREE! She even tell you how to manipulate 600 film like SX-70. It even has a nifty diagram of the anatomy of a Polaroid film pack. I’m pretty stoked and am looking forward to trying out her various methods. You should definitely take a look at the book:

Polaroid 600 and Spectra Film: Manipulations and Creative Techniques

Photocredit: gliesh’s SX-70 manipulation, Fire Point

Alright - Photojojo mentioned this in their 10 Ways to Love Polaroid newsletter but didn’t give any specific instruction, so in the spirit of Polaroid Awesomeness, DIY and being green I have put together a little tutorial for you on how to make these sweet Polaroid frames. It’s fairly simple, looks great and gives your pictures that extra kick of DIY hipness.

Observe.

Full instructions after the jump!
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Ah it all makes sense now thanks to Photojojo.

How to use the Unsharp Mask too in photoshop.

Now, I’ve played around with it before to get the “Jill Greenberg/Dave Hill Effect” - as noted here (Jill) and here (Dave). But it was mostly blindly following the tutorials. I had played around with it on my own, but never saw much use.

Now, after reading this article on Photojojo, I can actually pretend to know what I’m doing with it.

Thanks Photojojo!

[Sorry for all- classes have been keeping me wicked busy (yes WICKED), I haven’t had a chance to finish this entry, I thought I would have had it done a long time ago- but I guess, get what you can from it now- I’ll have it finished soon enough - and def check out APUN]
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Tomorrow I will be attending the Aperture Road Tour 2.0 seminar in downtown Washington, DC. A full day of digital photo management and the wonders of Apple Aperture. I hope to bring you live updates of the session with hints, tips, cool tricks on digital photography and Aperture workflow. If for some reason I can’t get an internet connection or I don’t have an appropriate place to type; I’ll be sure to post a wrap up of my day later tomorrow night. (The workshop is 9am-6pm). You should also expect to see attached my review and favorite new features + upgrades in Aperture 2 that I promised you.

If you’re interested in going, there are still 62 seats left. You can even get in for free- just comment on this post and I’ll email you back the username and passcode to register for free (If not, it’s $79.00 for the day - not sure if that includes food, but I hope so…).

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I do want to make it clear that I am in no way employed, compensated, affiliated, or such, with, by or for either Winkflash or Mpix.I put in another order to Mpix with the color correcting on this time, the results? Less than spectacular, but not ALL bad. For the details, make the jump (more…)

v. Alright, so the results are finally in. After a few days of research on multiple review forums hosted by both general consumer and photo specific sites, I was stuck between two candidates. Mpix.com and Winkflash. Both got really decent reviews. I even found one review where the user did in fact compare the two as I have. Yet, when he did so, he was making prints at 11X14+ and using some of their premium paper. He also had a slightly different purpose. Seeing as my printing purposes called for economy I wanted to compare each site on their barebones options. In his tests, he gives Winkflash as the winner, but only by a hair. My results are similar but not as black and white (sorry, I had to). I’m a bit more subjective on image quality (but it’s kind of hard not to be) but I also objectively examine speed of delivery, packaging, price and functionality of web ordering. For more details keep reading. Or you can skip to the bare results here. (more…)

It ain’t pretty (on the inside at least) but it’s mostly functional.
Star Wars references aside, this is it. The new and official Adam Dexter Photography blog. The skin you see is a heavily modded and edited (by me) Kubrick, with influences from N Design’s Phoenix and Unsleepable 2.0. I like it so far. It still needs a few tweaks here and there, nothing is perfect, but it’s getting there.

So, here I’ll be posting news, recent pictures and work, DIY projects, tips, tricks and hints, and well, anything else I feel like.

Here’s something photo related: I have DIY tips on how to take the perfect Myspace picture here. You better read, I mean, you do want to be ’scene’ don’t you?

But First thing being, completely unphoto related- well, depends how you look at it.

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