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How to Easily Replicate a Photo’s ‘Look’ Using Curves

Check out this cool tutorial video on how to mimic a photo's style using curves in Photoshop.

Incredible Color Photographs of Early 20th Century Russia

Check out these beautiful early 20th C. color photographs from Russia by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.

The collection is housed at the Library of Congress. Click here to see the rest and learn more.

Great tip to correct color casts in your photos

This short video shows you how to use color theory to correct color casts. It's a great idea and quite easy to do.

Lighting 101

Very cool lighting tutorial with minimal gear - and minimal budget - from Strobist (with free PDF download 2.7mb).

Contemporary Photo Practice and the "Networked Lens."

Here's an interesting read on contemporary photo practice and the (possible?) paradigm shift to "networked lenses" as a (the?) new definition of the medium.

Who's talking about photography and literacy?

Check out this interesting blog post by Marvin Heiferman addressing the ubiquitous presence of photography in contemporary culture -- and the lack of conversation about what all of that activity could potentially mean.

Is academia addressing the changing practices in the medium and associated photo-literacy? Is the language of photography destined to a fate similar to Latin: assimilated into many other languages and rendered irrelevant on its own (except, of course, for academic study)?

This post by Charlotte Cotton from the Aperture blog addresses a related topic: Are institutions (schools, galleries, museums) addressing innovations in photography?