Using the sun as a backlight

One tempting thing when shooting portraits around sunset is to have your subjects basking in that beautiful golden sunlight. One thing that I just love to do with portraits is turn the couple around and shoot right into the sun using it as a backlight. Then there are a few different things [...]

the WPPI 2010 list

For everyone going to WPPI I thought I would put together a little list of the top parties/speakers/events to go to. It’s always a whirlwind show for us, running around trying to meet new people, hang out with old friends, listen to a few programs and catch up with some of our vendors. [...]

Google Buzz – a fad or another way to connect?

I have to admit when Google Buzz hit the scenes a few weeks ago I was kind of Social Media’d out. Don’t get me wrong I love social media, it’s a great way to connect with family, lost friends and meet new people that share your passion. I love connecting with other photographers [...]

Lightroom 3 noise reduction

One of the new features of Lightroom 3 I was eager to try out was the noise reduction. This was said to be improved in Lightroom 3 and a top feature that I was looking for improvement so couldn’t wait to see if was really better. Overall it does look like Adobe definitely [...]

Color correcting your photographs

Thanks everyone who filled out one of our last polls on what you use to color correct your images. It seems the huge majority out there use Adobe Lightroom to do your color correcting work (62%). Another 38% use Photoshop, and Aperture and Bridge had about 10%. These polls are really helpful [...]

iPad and photography

With the iPad now only one month away I wanted to start a little conversation about how this might impact our photography. I think right as a brand new type of product there might not be a huge need in the photo industry for this product, but I do see really good things in [...]

Amazing photos of the northern lights

Photos of the Northern Lights have always inspired me. It is one thing that I have never shot but definitely on my list of things to do one day! The movement of the light and color are just fascinating and there are so many amazing images out there of this very cool part [...]

Lightroom tonal and color corrections

Post production in digital photography normally for me consists of some very basic adjustments to fine tune an image. Fine tuning the color balance of an image to get the feel I am going for and changing the tonal values of the photo are the main things that we will do to retouch our [...]

WPPI 2010

WPPI is coming up quick and this will be our 6th year attending WPPI. For those of you that haven’t made it before, WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) is a really great weeklong event filled with Seminars from some of the best in the industry and a huge trade show with hundreds of [...]

Organizing your photos in lightroom

How we organize our images can be such a huge time saver later on. Sometimes we have a client or even a vendor from a wedding call a year later requesting an image. Having a very easy method of storing your images can make such a difference when you need to find an [...]

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