Twin City Camera Club | THe Webmaster's Corner

THE WEBMASTER'S CORNER

The Featured Section and a place for an explanation or observation.

The website is a work in progress and constantly going through changes. Check the What's New page for things that have been added or changed. In some instances it will be necessary for you to refresh your browser to see the latest additions.

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The Twin City Camera Club Website was awarded Third Place, Large Club category, in the 2010 PSA International Website Competition.

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It's all about photography and having fun.

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Featured Section:

How you would do it?

Share your recommendations, tips and
techniques.

Shared Recommendations

As the name implies, the following links are being recommended by TCCC Members that have found them to contain helpful information, tips and techniques or tutorials that they would like to share with you. We all have favorite websites and receive newsletters with photography related things we enjoy. The Shared Recommendations feature is something I hope we all use to help each other out. Some of the links will be known to you and may even be in our regular resources and links pages. Unlike a link there, the ones listed here will be links used by a member. I hope that you will share your favorites by sending me an email with your recommendations to tmccall@twincitycameraclub.com

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These are from Ted Post.

www.gavtrain.com

Lots of good tutorials and Photoshop tips. His October 13th blog talks about two free file recovery utilities.

http://photoluminary.com/2011/02/hdr-tutorial-photomatix

Good article on how to do HDR.

http://www.fhotoroom.com/store/products.asp

The website has three free plug-ins for special effects in Photoshop.

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This one is from Tom McCall. www.TipSquirrel.com TipSquirrel | Nuts About Photoshop is a website dedicated to learning and using Photoshop, Lightroom and Photoshop Elements. Every weekday they produce a new tutorial, article, quiz or product review with a connection to Adobe Photoshop. Great stuff, check it out and try it, you’ll like it. For those of you that use it, you can also find Greyson TipSquirrel on Twitter; Facebook; Google+; Vimeo; and Flickr.

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The FREE and easy way to transfer big files or photos.

This recommendation is from your webmaster, Tom McCall. I've been using this file transfer service for over a year and have found it to be very helpful and easy to use. Wetransfer.com is a web site that allows you to
send up to 2 GB in files per transfer to other people "Free."

To use the service, the user enters the file(s) they want to send (up to 2 GB per limit, per transfer), the email address(es) of the people they would like to send the files to, their email address, and any comments the user would like to add. To enter the files, the user clicks on “Add files”, and an upload window is opened which allows the user to browse their hard drive for the files they wish to transfer. The user can add as many files as they wish as long as the 2 GB limit is not exceeded. When the user presses the “Transfer” button, the files are uploaded from the user's hard drive to the Wetransfer.com site. At this point, a confirmation email is sent to the user, and email(s) are sent to the recipient(s) containing a download link to the file(s). The recipient simply clicks on the download link, and a download page is opened in their browser where they can choose where to place the files on their hard drive. The recipient then presses the “Ok button” and the files are transferred from the Wetransfer.com site to the recipient's hard drive. A confirmation email is then sent to the user letting you know that the file(s) have been downloaded.

The user can send the files to up to 20 recipients per transfer. If the user needs to transfer more than 2 GB of files, they can simply do so with another transfer. Files are kept on the Wetransfer.com servers for 2 weeks then deleted. The site makes its revenue from the advertising logos and images which are shown on the file upload and download pages. I click on a few from time to time, it takes you to the advertised site, just to help keep the web site.

Screen shot from Wetransfer web site.

Wetransfer.com

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Bud Friesen recommended signing up for Free email newsletters from Tim Grey, a photographer and educator in digital photography, at http://www.timgrey.com. I did and now receive the Ask Tim Grey Newsletter, where Tim responds to questions on Photoshop, Lightroom, Bridge and Camera RAW. I also signed up for Elements Weekly, where he offers tips and answers questions on Elements. I find them easily understood and informative. Bud also purchases a publication, Digital Darkroom Quarterly from Tim Grey.

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I said some of them would be Free!

This recommendation is from your webmaster, Tom McCall. I've been receiving email notifications about Plugins from Harald Heim for years. It is a wonderful resource not only for free Plugins but for all kinds of Plugin information and help. Instructions, tutorials, reviews and even a forum about Plugins are only a few things offered on the site. The Plugin Site offers various resources for Photoshop, Lightroom, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro, Photo-Paint, After Effects, Premiere and other applications. They also develop their own products, including Photoshop plugins, external editors for Lightroom and standalone applications. This is one you need to check out and while you are at it you can sign up for The Plugin Newsletter.

Free Photoshop-compatible Plugins http://www.thepluginsite.com/resources/freeps.htm

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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. - Ansel Adams

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value... - Ansel Adams

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. - Ansel Adams

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We say: to take a photograph, and we also say: to make a photograph. It is curious that the language should afford this fine distinction. In the first case, the photographer is the witness to the occurrence; in the second case, he is the creator. Philippe Halsman (1906-1979)

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From Murphy's Law:

Dowling's Law of Photography: One missed photographic opportunity
creates a desire to purchase two additional pieces of photographic equipment.

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While developing this website there have been times that I've wanted to be able to speak more personally to all of you when you visit. I hope that you are able to easily find your way around the site, see everything you came to see, enjoy your visit and return often to see more. The site was developed to provide members and visitors with a central location to find information, see images and assist in improving photographic skills.

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It's all about photography and having fun.

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The Photographic Opportunities Pages

I've been involved in photography most of my life. We live in a visual world, filled with images in books, newspapers, magazines, on TV and the Internet. I enjoy looking at photos and when I see really good ones I'm always interested in where they were taken. Since I spend most of my time taking photographs when I travel, it helps to have locations in mind to minimize the time trying to find the good places to take photographs. We designed the Photographic Opportunities Pages with the idea to do that for you by providing directions to locations that our members have found. We want to show you places to get some great photographs. Then encourage you to visit Southwestern Michigan and the surrounding area to get the pictures that will WOW your friends and family. Starting out we are limiting the locations to around 50 miles or so from here. After we see how that goes, we will consider opening it up to more distant places. Our members have taken photographs all over this wonderful country and have lots of favorite locations they would like to share. Check back often because this idea is new to our members too. They will need time to locate and identify the photos and provide them to me. Then I prepare the images, test the mapping directions, make corrections and then add them to the site.

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Your suggestions are always welcome and please share your thoughts on how the site can be improved.
Please let me know if you have questions or encounter any problems during your visits.

Use this link to email me Webmaster

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