Kodak will include GPS in it’s camera range starting in 2009. GPS (the Global Positioning System) shows you where you are in the world by checking with satellites orbiting above us. The location information will be stored in the EXIF information of the image, and will be able to be retrieved using common software.

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It’s no longer a case of saying “One, Two, Three, Smile” then taking the photo. Instead you can press the “Smile Shutter”, and your camera will automatically take the photo when your subjects smile!

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Remember the saying ‘never work with children or animals’? That includes photography! But I’d be tempted to extend the definition when concerning photography to include pretty much all people in general. Most of the people you photograph will be kind, helpful and friendly, but you’ll sometimes find a subject that wants their pictures taken a [...]

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Every year or so, something radically new invades our digital photography world. I predict this technique for image resizing will be this year’s contribution. Until now, if you wanted to resize a photo, you could either resize the whole image, or crop parts of it. This means you either lose detail of your subjects, or [...]

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I think this has got to be nirvana for simple money making – doing what you love and getting paid for it. Would you like to use your new found photography skills from following my tips to earn lots of money? It’s possible and it’s very easy with this new training system called Camera Dollars.

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Think your photos are great? Think you could win a competition or two? Be aware of the fine print before entering any Internet photo competitions… you might save yourself a lot of grief. Search for “Photo Competition” on the Internet, and you’ll be greeted with lots of ads and websites that run photo competitions for [...]

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I’ve had a lot of people email me recently asking if there was an independent review of my book available. I’ve had a number of newspapers review my book, but they normally don’t place anything online for me to show people. Here’s a review I found from Rayman Lee, a very satisfied customer, who also [...]

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Today I announce the five “Power of 5″ winners. Many subscribers will remember that last month I held a “Great Tip Search”, and with that a competition. The five authors of the best 5 tips submitted would each win a Canon Powershot A630 digital camera. I had a huge number of entries – over 2,500! [...]

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Last night was a pretty special night for me. One of my photos was shown on TV! Recorded from ABC-TV Australia, 10th November, 2006

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Many of you have been emailling me asking why I haven’t posted any new tips (particularly in my image editing series) recently.

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UPDATE: The forum was closed in 2007 due to my ill-health. Please try Red Bubble This past week saw the first birthday of my Digital Photo Forum. I set the forum up to be a free place for like minded photographers (both professionals and hobbyists) to discuss photography related issues. I added a photo gallery [...]

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