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Photography Video Tutorials

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published March 3, 2006

Scoble points to a new video-tutorial based photography tips site. Be warned though, unlike 99.9% of photography sites the content is not free.

Just Show Me How is a cool new site with tips for digital photographers and there’s a blog along with it too. Done by award-winning photographers. Pulitzer-prize winners and all that. Lots of fun, and has videos and such too.

The tutorials have tiny previews and the video quality looks pretty good, longer samples jump a bit due to the streaming. I presume if you purchase you get to download it in full. Right now the tips are very much at beginner level and I have to agree with what some commentors say, there are the same topics covered for free all over the web. They do have a weekly free video (this week is sunsets).

For some odd reason Robert gets some heat for recommending it. What’s the problem people? If you don’t like it just don’t use it, give the guy a break. Sheesh, anyone would think he was putting a gun to their heads.

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Merge Good Bits of Bad Photographs

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published January 18, 2006

Scoble points to a new piece of software from Microsoft Research that allows you to take the good bits from bad photographs to make one great shot. For example if you have taken two snaps, one where someone blinked and another where someone is pulling a face, you can take the open eyes and the smiles and make a new good picture!

Microsoft Research Group Shot

MSR Group Shot helps you create a perfect group photo out a series of group photos. With Group Shot you can select your favorite parts in each shot of the series and Group Shot will automatically build a composite image.

You know what? The results are pretty good! Below is a composite of several truly awful pictures where there was at least one person in each pulling a face. Even though I am still not entirely happy everyone is smiling properly it is a heck of a lot better than the originals!

Thanks Microsoft!

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