Adobe Creative Suite Now Available, Free Trials for Download

Tweet Adobe announced that it has begun shipping Creative Suite 5, which they introduced earlier this month. Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of the Adobe Creative Suite 5 product family, the highly-anticipated release of the industry-leading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. With more than 250 new product features, [...]

Take your DSLR videocamera up in the air!

Tweet If you liked Mike Larson’s Camera toss, this can take your photography to new “levels”. For any of you extreme photographers out there who want to get an amazing angle of that bride and groom check out this RC helicopter to strap your camera to! I think I am a little too chicken to [...]

Walk through some additions to CS5

Tweet Here is a great little video walk through of some new features in CS5 from Adobe Evangelist Julieanne Kost. Some of the HDR stuff and improvements to noise reduction and film grain look pretty cool. Seems to be some of the same changes they are rolling into Lightroom 3 though, anyone planning on upgrading [...]

Using brushes in Lightroom

Tweet One of the most powerful parts of Lightroom is the brushes tool. With brushes you can edit a specific part of the image without effecting the entire image. This helps to save time for adjustments like burning and dodging and other tasks that you used to have to open Photoshop up for. I’ll give [...]

Artist Spotlight of the week – Leah Stafford

Tweet Our artist spotlight this week is a photographer who specializes in boudoir images. Leah has some amazing images and lots of great info about boudoir photography! How did you get started with boudoir? It’s all thanks to a good friend. She wanted to do a boudoir session and at the time I was already [...]

Black and White Landscape Contest Winners

Tweet Thanks again to everyone who entered our last photo contest “Black and White Landscapes“. There was some really amazing work, you can check all the entries on our facebook wall. Also thanks to our sponsor Black River Imaging for providing $100 gift cards to the 3 winners. It was hard to pick the top [...]

Shot of the Week – Setting Silhouettes

Tweet Our shot of the week this week comes from Dennis at DZ Photography. Silhouettes can be a great way to give your client something different and an artistic way to set your work apart. Check our Dennis shot below and some info about show he created the shot! “Setting Silhouettes” Just as I was [...]

Photography Gear 101

Tweet The biggest question I get from people starting out is what type of gear I recommend. Here are some of my top pieces of equipment and while I am a Canon shooter Nikon has some very similar stuff when it comes to lens selection. I am actually a firm believer that gear doesn’t make [...]

Portrait contest Honorable mentions

Tweet We got so many great entries for our Portrait contest I wanted to share a few more that I thought were really amazing. It was so difficult to only choose 3 images for the winners so here are a few more shots and some things that I think work well with the images. This [...]

How to capture infrared photos

Tweet Last week we did an article with some amazing examples of infrared photography “infrared photography – 16 amazing shots” and today I want to go over some how to’s to get you started with infrared photography. First there are a lot of different ways to try and get an infrared look to your images, [...]

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