Top Lightroom 4 Tips and Tutorials

With Lightroom 4 being out for awhile now I know many of you have taken the plunge and upgraded already. Since the beta release I have been writing many different articles about the new features. I covered all of the main new features and also always try and uncover some tips that don’t really stand [...]

Win a $50 gift card from Amazon

One thing I love to do here is give stuff away We have had some cool giveaways with tons of photography products from our sponsors and other great photo vendors and have some pretty cool photography competitions and contests coming up soon. The other day I was looking for a way to run a promo [...]

Using the sun to backlight your portraits for a romantic feel

On of the most beautiful times to photograph people, or landscapes, or just about anything is around that golden hour of sunset. With portraits most of the time your first tendency is to shoot them with your subjects basking in that beautiful golden sunlight. It’s one of the things I always remember people telling me [...]

Review of the O-Flash Ring Flash Adapter

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 a [...]

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

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 at [...]

See how lighting effects a subject by using virtual lighting studio

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 having [...]

What you need to know about Adobes Creative Cloud

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 as [...]

First impressions of the Canon 5d Mark III

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 out [...]

Adobe officially launches Creative Suite 6

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 Design [...]

DNG Enhancements with Lightroom 4

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 technology. [...]

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