It’s all about the art not the gear
Tweet It’s all about the art and vision not the tools In yesterdays post I somewhat jokingly compared the canon 5d to the iPhone 4 camera. I say somewhat jokingly because when it really comes down to it the tools that we use to get a shot really isn’t the most important part about creating [...]
Lighting – Keep it simple
Tweet Sometimes I think people can get way too caught up with the gear of photography. When you start getting into lighting you can really start getting gear crazy, you want multiple lights, radio slaves, light modifiers, etc…. Sometimes though keeping your lighting ultra simple can be your best bet and still allow you to [...]
Canon 5d vs iPhone 4
Tweet OK, I know the title of this post sounds a little crazy. How can a camera phone come anywhere near the amazing Canon 5D DSLR? I was doing a lot of testing of the iPhone 4 camera over the weekend and comparing it against the last model of the iPhone. It is a very [...]
Photoshop cheatsheets
June 28, 2010 by Mark
Filed under Post Production
Tweet As photographers we have now taken a lot of the job that a lab tech used to have. We now do all of our own post production and spend countless hours in Photoshop, Lightroom and other software editing and color correcting images. I know that for every wedding we shoot here in the studio [...]
Your best family portrait photo
Tweet Based on our last poll it looks like the largest majority of our readers (although by a small percent) photograph Family Portraits. So with all of you amazing family portrait artists out there lets see your best shot! The winner will get a 30 page 10×10 Hard Cover photo book from Black River Imaging! [...]
National Geographic Ultimate Photo Contest
Tweet This week instead of our normal Digital Photo Buzz contest we are teaming up with National Geographic and Energizer batteries, who are hosting an amazing contest to be able to win a trip to Greece! They also are throwing in a Canon Selphy printer to one Digital Photo Buzz reader. To enter their contest [...]
Free Photoshop Actions
June 21, 2010 by Mark
Filed under Headline, Post Production
Tweet Looking for a good way to start off your monday morning? How about some free actions! Check out a list of some great free actions that I have collected. Actions can be a great way to save time in Photoshop. While I always end up still doing some additional changes to each image, having [...]
Happy Fathers Day
Tweet Fathers day two years ago my life was so much different than it is today. We celebrated fathers day with my parents in Santa Cruz and even though I wasn’t officially a dad yet we were expecting our first baby. I was excited but also a little bit nervous to have this new responsibility [...]
Photoshop CS5 Masking Basics & Masking Magic
June 19, 2010 by Mark
Filed under Uncategorized
Tweet Masking has always been a great way in Photoshop to select parts of an image and combine your selections to make a photo compositions. With basic images masking has always been pretty easy but for more complex images (little fly away hairs used to be the hardest thing to mask). But with Photoshop CS5 [...]
Your Body and Mind
Tweet Today’s post has nothing to do with Photography but at the same time everything to do about your creative mind. Last weekend at a wedding I had to go up and down this pretty big hill a few times to grab some gear. The 2nd time up the hill I was huffing and puffing [...]
