Some amazing work on 500px.com
December 15, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Shooting Tips & Inspiration
Tweet If you haven’t heard of 500px.com yet, you might have been under a rock for the last few years. They were actually started way before many would think, back in the same year Flickr went live in 2004. It has never had close to the number of users that Flickr had but has always [...]
2011 Photographers Holiday Gift Guide
Tweet This is our 3rd annual Photographers Christmas gift guide. With Christmas coming in just a few weeks I am sure many of you have your shopping still left to do. What do you get the photographer who already has everything? Here is my top 10 photography related gifts this year: 1) First if you [...]
Understanding catalogs, collections, and folders in Lightroom
December 12, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Lightroom, Post Production
Tweet A review of catalogs, collections, and folders in Adobe Lightroom Since Lightroom is a database some of the most powerful features of Lightroom are organizing your images. But since Lightroom has many different types of ways to keep your files stored it can get a little confusing when starting out. Today I want to [...]
Some Awesome Photos of Christmas Lights
December 8, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Shooting Tips & Inspiration
Tweet With Christmas coming up just around the corner it’s time to grab the tripod and start shooting photos of all the wonderful lights and trees. There is always so much amazing visuals around this time it can be fun for us to be creative and capture some cool stuff. I’ll be posting pretty soon [...]
Color Splash Studio Mac App Review
December 7, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Product Reviews
Tweet Color Splash Studio Mac App Review One thing that I don’t think has really taken off yet but I am hoping to see great things soon is the Mac App Store. The iTunes store has taken off and although there are hundreds of thousands of bad apps out there for your iPhone and iPad [...]
Critique and feedback for your photography
Tweet Getting honest critiques can be a difficult part of being an artist but honestly one of the most important parts of us growing and creating better art. For years I would enter my work in many different print competitions and although I would love when I had a good image that got praise the [...]
Top 5 Tips to Optimize Lightroom Performance
December 3, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Lightroom, Post Production
Tweet One type of article that I love to write is tips for Lightroom and Photoshop. These programs have so many little known features, shortcuts and tips that can really save you time. Part of using Lightroom that I had struggled with for awhile was the performance. I used camera RAW for years for my [...]
Help your community with Help-Portrait
Tweet One thing that I think is so awesome with the photography community sometimes is how many great ways there our for us to help out. It’s great we can do what we love and get paid but what’s even better is to be able to do what we love and make an impact on [...]
Importing Photos Into Lightroom
December 1, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Lightroom, Post Production
Tweet Today I want to share a great video that walks through the different ways to import photos into Lightroom. As with anything in Lightroom there are different ways to get work done. This video is a great walk through on what the differences are between ways of importing. It’s another video from Julieanne Kost [...]




