The imaging section is fairly new to Planet Botch. It offers detailed reviews of retro photographic gear, along with coverage of imaging practices. Here's what's been added so far...
Photo Tricks for Free - 1: The Pro Sky GradientAdding that professional look to skies is a lot more simple than you may think...
Photo Tricks for Free - 2: Out of the ShadowsIf your backlit images are prone to heavy shadow and tonal imbalance, this is the tutorial for you...
Vintage Matchbox Cars Still Life ShootoutSome amazing, mint condition, 1970s Matchbox cars, photographed by three different cameras...
The Kodak V1003 Digital Compact Camera in RetrospectA look at the Kodak Easyshare V1003 compact camera of 2007. Why you might like it, and why you might not...
The Mysterious Fuji Finepix A403What actually was the Fuji Finepix A403, and why can you never find it in old photographic mags?...
The Fujifilm DX-5 and DX-7 Digital Cameras of 1997A brace of very early digicams. Let's fondly recall just how inept the technology was back in the day...
An Answer to the New Google Image Search?What the future might hold now that Google has chosen to appropriate photographers' content as its own...
Flickr's 1 Terabyte of Storage - Where's the Catch?Why the drastic increase, and can you trust Flickr to keep a whole terabyte of storage free of charge?...
The Fujifilm A204 Digital Camera (2003)How things change in the world of technology. Once upon a time, big and clunky was perfectly acceptable...
The Fujifilm Finepix 6800Z Digital Camera (2001)A classic digital camera which topped the consumer range back at the dawn of the new century...
Flickr 'Licences' Mean Nothing to FlickrThis 'image licence protection' Flickr has so proudly implemented... Who does it actually protect?...
The Fuji FinePix 1300More early digicam technology, and one of the first digital cameras targeted at Mr/Mrs Average...
The Best Way to PROMOTE Your Photos on TwitterAnyone can post their pics on Twitter. But how do you PROMOTE photos without giving them away?...
The Fujifilm Finepix A405 Digital CameraAnother obscure Fuji compact camera, which most retailers did not have anything whatsoever to do with...
IMPROVE YOUR TRANSPORT PHOTOGRAPHY...
Improve Your Transport Photography focuses, of course, on the transport genre, but it does have some fascinating and offbeat insights into outdoor imaging and processing, a lot of which aren't covered elsewhere. Visit the Articles landing page for access to the site's theory and tutorial matter.
The Ideas Galleries are also well worth looking at if you feel you're becoming a bit predictable and want some thoughts on changing things up.
Posted by: Bob Leggitt
