New wedding workshops announced

I have been holding small workshops for 3 years now and am always amazed how inspired I get from meeting new photographers, learning about their photo journey so far and helping them to take their photography to the next level. The last few months I had to put our workshops on hold for a bit [...]

Using Exposure Compensation for flash photography

Today’s post is somewhat of a follow up from my post a few week back reviewing the PocketWizard TT1 and FlexTT5 units. I want to talk about a really cool way to adjust the look of your flash images that is so easy to do using Exposure Compensation. Most of you I am sure know [...]

Dramatic Black and White Photo Contest

** Update ** Congrats to Chester Bullock for his image of the Golden Gate bridge to take home the winning $100 gift card. View all of the entries here: Dramatic Black and White Photography And the winner is… still up for grabs. There were some great entries to our last contest for the best dramatic [...]

What is your favorite lens?

Earlier this week I posted a question on Facebook and Twitter that got some good responses and a pretty big variety. It was a simple question, what is your must have lens? There was a huge variety of responses from 50mm primes to 70-200 zooms and it got me wanting more info. So today a [...]

Who are you – what inspires your photography

Every day we post different types of tutorials, photography guides, marketing info, product reviews basically anything I think (or hear from you) that would help out your photo journey and make us all better photographers. Today though I wanted to do something a little different. I get a lot of great feedback from polls on [...]

Creating a creative digital composite

Today I wanted to share a video I came across about how to create a creative digital composite in Photoshop CS5. I think digital composites can be so interesting and Photoshop really is such a powerful tool in the creative process. With the ability to layer images over images and blend items together Photoshop really [...]

shoeboxed.com receipt scanning review

Awhile back I reviewed a scanner that I have used for awhile in the office here for scanning receipts. Scanning all of our receipts has really save a lot of time come the end of the year tax time and also is very helpful when you need to find a old receipt for a warranty [...]

10 inspiring photos of New York

I was searching for some images of clouds the other day and for some reason the search results came up with this first image of the light tribute to the world trade center. With the 10th anniversary of 9/11 coming up I thought it would be nice to showcase 10 inspiring images of New York, [...]

Dramatic Black and White photo contest

*** Update – The contest is now closed, thanks everyone for your great submissions. Winner will be announced on Monday so check back ** It’s time again for another fun photo contest. The theme of this contest is going to be one of my favorite themes, Dramatic black and white. It can be a portrait, [...]

Marketing your photography – what does your message convey?

As most of you who know me or have followed this site for awhile know that I get a lot of inspiration from Apple. Not only just the products they make and how much I love the attention to detail and design they put into everything that they do but also how they are really [...]

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