Black and White Lightroom Presets

I know that everyone loves Lightroom presets and who doesn’t love free presets! I am always on the hunt for great presets to share with everyone and today have a nice group of Black and White presets. Since the topic so far this week has been around black and white film here are [...]

Have you ever shot film?

Yesterday’s post (Film vs. Digital for the Analog Junkie/ Traveling Photographer) got me thinking a little bit about my background and a few discussions I have had with some newer photographers at my workshops. I sometimes find it strange when I talk to photographers who have learned in this digital age and have never [...]

Creating professional food photos at home

Guest Post by Alessandro Festa http://www.alfweb.com
I’m a foodie, there is no doubt about that. I love food; I love to eat, cook, look at, touch, and smell food. But I’m a photographer too so I’m constantly have the urge to hear that “click” sound of the shutter and “freeze” something with my camera. [...]

7 photography links

Today we are celebrating our 200th post! I actually really can’t believe it, in less than a year 200 different tutorials, new articles, contests, photo marketing pieces have been posted on this site. First off thanks to all our awesome readers, without your support and encouragement I wouldn’t keep putting in all of [...]

Your best family portrait winner

Drumroll please….. The winner of our last photo contest for the best family portrait is, “So happy together” by Virginia Page Photography! Congrats Virginia! You are the winner of a 30 page 10×10 Hard Cover photo book from Black River Imaging!

There were a ton of great shots, you can check out all of [...]

Show us your photography website

Awhile back we ran a post for everyone to share their photography blog and had an amazing response with over 100 photographers sharing their blogs. I went through every single blog and was very impressed with some of the amazing work out there. Since there is such a diverse group of photographers that [...]

Feature on collages.net blog

I was so excited awhile back when collages.net called me wanting to do an interview about me and my photography. When you put all of your heart into your work it feels so good to have it recognized by other people in your industry, although it does still feel a little bit strange. [...]

iPhone 4 camera quality

I have to say so far I have been more than impressed with the new iPhone 4. As most of you who know me well know that my iPhone and me are inseparable. Everywhere I go my iPhone is right by my side, ready to check Twtiier, Facebook, Email, browse the web, the [...]

It’s all about the art not the gear

It’s all about the art and vision not the tools
In yesterdays post I somewhat jokingly compared the canon 5d to the iPhone 4 camera. I say somewhat jokingly because when it really comes down to it the tools that we use to get a shot really isn’t the most important part about creating the image. [...]

Lighting – Keep it simple

Sometimes I think people can get way too caught up with the gear of photography. When you start getting into lighting you can really start getting gear crazy, you want multiple lights, radio slaves, light modifiers, etc…. Sometimes though keeping your lighting ultra simple can be your best bet and still allow you [...]

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