Thoughts on Steve Jobs, Apple and Your Passion
The news hit me today like it did many people, as multiple notifications from my iPhone and iPad. An alert from the CNN app the AP mobile app…. alerts popping up with the news that Steve Jobs is setting down from the helm of Apple. Although this is a photography site and it’s main focus [...]
Using Negative Space In Photography
August 4, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Shooting Tips & Inspiration
Negative Space can be a great tool that we can use in our photography to focus the viewers eye and create dynamic compositions. Sometimes a very minimal composition can really draw a viewer into the image and can be a great way to make an impact or statement with our work. Negative space can also [...]
Mac OS X Lion Update For Photographers
August 3, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Headline, Product Reviews
I have to admit that I have a weak spot when it comes to Apple products. Starting way back in the 80′s when I was a kid I somehow convinced my parents to buy me a Apple IIc and have been hooked ever since. The moment that OS X Lion was announced I knew that [...]
PhotoCopy Application Review From Digital Film Tools
August 1, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Product Reviews
PhotoCopy Application Review From Digital Film Tools PhotoCopy is an application that can be used as a plugin within Lightroom, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements or Apple’s Aperture. When you purchase the software you are able to use it on any of these applications. This program basically is a filter applied to your image that replicates the [...]
PhotoToaster iPad App Review for Photographers
July 5, 2011 by Cheryl
Filed under Product Reviews
PhotoToaster is an amazing photo editing app from the company behind MobileMonet and ColorBlast!, East Coast Pixels. At first glance PhotoToaster looks like yet another photo filter app, but when you delve deeper, you find a wealth of powerful tools to let you tweak to your heart’s content. As with MobileMonet, you can either import [...]
5 Tips on Photographing Fireworks
July 3, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Shooting Tips & Inspiration
It’s that time of the year again here in the states where big firework displays come out to celebrate the 4th of July. Fireworks can be such amazing visual displays to photograph and with a few pointers to keep in mind fireworks are pretty easy to capture. Here are some tips on how to get [...]
PhotoSync iPad App Review
June 23, 2011 by Cheryl
Filed under Product Reviews
PhotoSync iPad App Review PhotoSync is a great universal app that can wirelessly sync your photos among your iOS devices and your desktop computer. I was using a different iOS app (which shall remain nameless) to send photos between my iPhone and iPad, but it was fussy. It had to transfer photos and videos separately, [...]
An Introduction to DNG File Types
June 11, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Post Production
Our awesome partners over at PWD Labs (www.pwdlabs.com) created a post on their blog recently about DNG file types and were nice enough to let us repost the article here. If you have ever wondered what a DNG file is this is a great overview of the DNG file type. Introduction to DNG File Types [...]
An Intro To Off Camera Lighting
An Introduction to using off camera lighting If you have followed this site for awhile you know how much of a fan I am of off camera lighting. I really do hate to place my flash on camera and will only do so in certain situations where I am moving around a lot (like covering [...]
Creating a welcome page for your Facebook fan page
May 31, 2011 by Mark
Filed under Business & Marketing
A little while back I wrote about how to create a welcome page for your photography fan page on Facebook. Just like many things with the web Facebook has changed how you can create these and no longer offers Static FBML pages. If you already set yours up then it will still work but for [...]
