Review of the O-Flash Ring Flash Adapter

Tweet Review of the O-Flash Ring Flash Adapter for speedlights A ring flash can give you many cool advantages compared to using a normal on camera speedlight. We covered some advantages of using a ring light for portraits awhile back and today wanted to review the O-Flash ring adapter that can turn any speedlight into [...]

Video of the 600EX-RT Speedlite & ST-E3-RT Transmitter

Tweet For my wedding work I love to use off camera lighting and am always looking for ways to streamline my lighting systems. When you are on the go at a wedding and sometimes only have 2 minutes to quickly light up a shot, you have to use a very portable lighting system. Many times [...]

See how lighting effects a subject by using virtual lighting studio

Tweet Part of getting your lighting really nailed down is the simple fact of being able to really see the light. This can be tricky for new photographers to see though since when you are using flash you never really see the light stay on your live subject long enough to study what effect its [...]

What you need to know about Adobes Creative Cloud

Tweet Part of yesterdays announcement about Creative Suite 6 coming in the next 30 days was that their entire CS6 software will also be available as part of the creative cloud. So what exactly is the creative cloud? It gives you access to all of Adobes creative suite products, plus some additional products as well [...]

First impressions of the Canon 5d Mark III

Tweet I have to admit for as much as I love technology and am a definite gadget lover I do try to only upgrade my equipment when really needed. As photographers in a very rapidly growing digital age it can be easy to get “gear envy” over other cameras, lenses and other goodies you see [...]

Adobe officially launches Creative Suite 6

Tweet Adobe released a beta last month of Photoshop 6 and now today released the details of the new Creative Suite 6 package. It’s available for pre-order starting today and will ship within 30 days. You can preorder it online here: Adobe Creative Suite 6 Pricing for the CS suite starts at $1299 for the [...]

DNG Enhancements with Lightroom 4

Tweet Part of Lightroom 4′s update was some changes to the DNG file format. If you aren’t aware of DNG files and what they are it stands for “Digital Negative” and is a file format that was created by Adobe but also something that they created to be open so people can freely license the [...]

Directly adjusting the Hue Saturation and Luminosity in Lightroom

Tweet Quick tip today on how to directly adjust the Hue, Saturation and Luminosity in Lightroom. Lightroom has some great features to really fine tune your images that some of you might not know about. One section that I think is underused sometimes is the HSL module in Lightroom. Under the develop module the HSL [...]

Paint FX iPad App Review

Tweet Lately my schedule has been so crazy busy that my iPad hasn’t got a ton of use and I haven’t even bought any new apps. This is pretty rare for me since I have to admit I’m an appoholic and love to check out new apps and technology once they come out. Finally the [...]

Controlling your Canon Speedlight from your camera

Tweet One thing that most camera manufactures haven’t historically done a great job in is the user interface of menus. From flashes to your camera navigating through menus to make quick changes aren’t always quick. Although I have used many different Canon speedlights over the years I still don’t find it easy to navigate through [...]

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