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Blue Marble Exhibit, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto

Posted on August 26, 2019, 8:00 pm, by QT Luong, under Announcements.
I am honored to be included in a group show with six other local artists entitled “The Blue Marble: Art for the Environment” at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto, CA. Astronauts from the Apollo missions recorded for the first time the beauty of the earth from a new perspective: space. Galen Rowell and […]
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The Most Critical Step in Self-publishing a Mainstream Photography Book

Posted on August 19, 2019, 11:50 pm, by QT Luong, under Business.
At some point, we all want to leave a legacy, and in photography, short of being archived by a major institution, the clearest path is to publish a well-circulated book. That is a book that reaches beyond your existing audience, is sold in bookstores nationwide, and makes it way into libraries. Books travel through the […]
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How to Convert Digital Files for Printing: Step by Step Example of RGB/CYMK Conversion

Posted on August 12, 2019, 11:57 pm, by QT Luong, under Techniques.
A main technical obstacle in making great prints from digital files is that you are translating an image viewed through the transmissive vehicle of the computer screen to a physical medium which is reflective. In this article, I explain with examples how to compensate for that difference, using as a step by step an improved […]
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Treasured Lands Second Edition – An Inside Look

Posted on August 5, 2019, 11:59 pm, by QT Luong, under Announcements.
The second edition of Treasured Lands has just been released (order your copy here). That it was the fourth printing in three years shows that the book was successful enough to just reprint without changes. Nevertheless, with each new printing, I had been trying to improve the book. Changes in the second and third printing […]
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