Here are some of the articles from around the web that I found particularly interesting this week.

• How to bypass the Portrait Mode on Your Digital Camera and Get Great Portraits – From Digital Photography School. I never use the portrait mode on my camera for a few reasons, one of them being that you can’t shoot in RAW on my Canon 20D. DPS gives you some good advice to set up a portrait shot by going into your camera’s “creative”modes.
• PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT: Blown Away – Brian Auer over at the Epic Edits blog is starting a new project with the topic being overexposure. But the project needs reader input to succeed, so check it out!
• Canon 40D Reviews and Resource Page – From Photography Bay. Just in case you’ve been stranded in a cave and survived on bugs and water from cacti for the last couple months, the Canon 40D has been announced and will be on shelves very soon. Get all the skinny on this very cool new camera.
• Nikon D300 Officially Announced – Also from Photography Bay. I don’t want to leave any of you Nikon die-hards out in the cold. They’ve got their answer to the Canon 40D. Let the battle of the SLRs heat up!
• Portrait Inspiration – From PopPhoto Flash. Snag a tip on getting yourself out of that lighting rut.

Some of the coolest photography articles from around the web this week. Get ‘em while they’re hot!

• Digital Photography School breaks all the rules with “Experiment with Different Framings with Portraits“
• Photography Tip tells you the “Best Apertures for Sharpness“
• Strobist strikes near and dear to my portrait heart with “Using Specular Reflections as a Background Element“
• If you read the recent article here on Ethics and Best Practices in Photo Retouching, you’ll likely enjoy “Hollywood Glamour, Contemporary Style” from The Online Photographer. The article takes you to a professional photo retoucher that has an amazing collection of before and after shots of retouched celebrity photos.

Some of the coolest photography related articles from around the web this week:

• This Will Literally Make You Want To Throw Up – From Strobist, a short video clip of wedding photographer Mike Larson who throws his multi-thousand dollar SLR 20 feet into the air to get an awesome bird’s eye view of the wedding party.
• Hold Your Camera On An Angle – This is something that is getting more and more popular these days. Digital Photography School tells you about breaking the “keep the horizon level” rule.
• Making Your Own Muslin Background – From Instructables, learn how to make your own muslin background to save money. I’ve been toying with the idea of doing this myself for many months now and have been planning to do an article on it. If you try it, let me know how it goes in the comments!

I ran across some really cool stuff this week while taking a break from moving Sublime Light to the new host. Enjoy!

• DIY small flash water-proof housing – Strobist’s David Hobby brings you a really cool do-it-yourself solution for taking a SpeedLight into wet conditions, even underwater. Talk about opening up new opportunities for photographs.
• Happy Customers – Going Pro as a Photographer – Darren Rowse over at Digital Photography School hosts pro photographer Laura Novak to talk a little about what it means to turn any client into your next advertisement.
• Going to the Moo-vies – Photocritic introduces you to the coolest new printer around. They have some of the most awesome little products I’ve seen in a long time. Check it out!
• Making Coloring Pages From Your Photos – This is an awesome tutorial for anyone with kids. Coloring books are cool, but how awesome would it be to color a picture of yourself?! fototiller shows you the three easy steps to doing it in Photoshop.