LRPAD iPad lightroom application review

Tweet I am always looking for new apps to help tie my desktop and mobiles devices all together. The iPad can be such a great tool for consuming content but also in making you more productive as an extension of your desktop. With Lightroom there are so many sliders that you have to adjust it [...]

How to use Canon Speedlights with multiple flashes

Tweet One of the questions I get most of on how to use off camera lighting. I have posted various lighting tutorials and info and you can browse through some of them in this category: Digital Photo Buzz Lighting Tutorials But today I ran across a really great video that I think many of you [...]

Baby Photography Tips – Let Them Sleep

Tweet Nothing is more beautiful than a peaceful sleeping baby. But sometimes no matter how tired they are when you are ready to shoot them sleeping they just don’t want to stay asleep. I don’t know how many times a mom has fed, burped and changed a baby then rocked them to sleep and once [...]

Overview of the Lightroom 4 Cropping Tool

Tweet Today I want to cover the Lightroom 4 crop tool in some detail. While at first glance you would think a crop tool is very simple and straight forward there is actually a lot of great things you can do with the Lightroom 4 crop tool. So lets jump right into what you can [...]

Upgrading to Mountain Lion for Photographers

Tweet I know this site is all about photography but as a photographer in this digital age I have relied on Apple computers for my creative work since the college days of a beige G3. While I might be dating myself a bit I learned Photoshop 3 (yes just 3 not CS3) on a mac [...]

Canon finally releases a APS-C Mirrorless camera the Canon EOS M

Tweet While most of the other camera manufacturers have been building small APS-C mirrorless cameras for awhile now Canon has been patiently waiting along the sidelines. Today they announced their entry into the space with the APS-C Mirrorless camera. It’s basically a point and shoot version of the Rebel T4i with the ability to use [...]

Creating cool text layers with smart objects in Photoshop

Tweet One advantage that certain vector based programs like illustrator has always had over Photoshop is the ability to do a lot of cool stuff with text. I have dabbled in Illustrator over the years but really am a rookie with this application and always prefer to use Photoshop since i’ve used it forever and [...]

Getting your blog to be more social with Facebook

Tweet Love Facebook or not they are a force to be reckoned with in terms of sheer numbers. With approaching a billion users they can be one of the largest ways we can get our photography out in front of new customers and a great way to market our work. I have covered some tips [...]

Baby Portrait Photography Tips – Show Scale

Tweet A few weeks ago I talked about why you should never stop shooting when photographing babies. Today I want to share another important thing to think about when photographing babies – showing scale. With images of a baby alone you can’t really get a feel for the size of the baby. You could have [...]

Photographers Spotlight and Photo of the Month

Tweet Over the past year one thing that I have focused on a lot on this site is shooting technique and post production articles however one thing that has been neglected is our Photographers Spotlight feature and our feature on readers images. Part of my goal with this site is to help inspire others through [...]

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