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Articles by Kerry Garrison

Kerry Garrison is a wedding, portrait, and product photographer living in southern California. With 10 years of experience shooting products and 3 years of experience in the wedding industry, Kerry brings a good deal of technical know-how and can explain topics in easy-to-understand terms. Kerry's work can be found at http://kerrygarrison.com and on Facebook at http://facebook.com/KerryGarrison

Review: Sigma 50-500 f/4.5-6.3 APO Review: Sigma 50-500 f/4.5-6.3 APO

Kerry’s Quick Hit – The Sigma 50-500 lens has a tremendous focal length range which gives it great versatility. The tradeoff in this extreme focal length range is that the lens is fairly heavy.
On a …

Podcast #100 – Talking About Lenses Podcast #100 – Talking About Lenses

Welcome back to the Camera Dojo podcast. I know some people really liked the GoCast series and some people didn’t. Overwhelmingly people asked for more of a standard audio podcast with a co-host like the …

6 Ways To Be An Obnoxious Photographer 6 Ways To Be An Obnoxious Photographer

Over the years we have always talked about all the ways to be a great photographer, how to deal with customers, how to deal with coordinators and DJs, and how to act professional. Of course …

Review: SpiderPro Camera Holster Review: SpiderPro Camera Holster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di-XEIkc3E8

Most new products come in and you just know right away if it is something that you will like or not. The SpiderPro Holster was not one of these products. I have tried numerous camera …

The Problem With Many Awards Programs The Problem With Many Awards Programs

If you have been involved in any major industry that has its own trade shows and trade publications, you may already understand how some of the “Best of The Year” and other types of awards …

Lensbaby Composer Pro Now Available for Samsung, Sony, Micro Four Thirds mirrorless mounts Lensbaby Composer Pro Now Available for Samsung, Sony, Micro Four Thirds mirrorless mounts

Lensbaby Announces Availability of Composer® Pro for Mirrorless Cameras
Now the Composer Pro delivers ultra-smooth creative control for photographers with Micro 4/3rds, Sony α NEX and Samsung NX cameras too
Portland, OR – April 2, 2012 – …

Lightroom 4.1 RC1 Available Lightroom 4.1 RC1 Available

While Lightroom 4 came out and was extremely solid, there are always a few glitches that will be found when tens of thousands of people start pounding on it. This release candidate features a number …

Using Gels To Fix An Ugly Sky Using Gels To Fix An Ugly Sky

Yesterday I went out with the LA Shoot This! group to help lead a group shoot event but unfortunately Mother Nature was not on our side. The sky was gray and boring and it was …

How to Have A Successful Photography Business How to Have A Successful Photography Business

Over the past 24 hours the blogosphere has erupted with both praise and condemnation to new website by David Jay with his 10 Step Guide to Starting a Photography Business. Blog posts, tweets, and Facebook …

Review: Midland XTC300VP4 Wearable Action Camera Review: Midland XTC300VP4 Wearable Action Camera

Wearable point of view camera are all the rage right now with everyone that is doing any kind of action sport strapping cameras on to give the viewer a sense of what he/she was seeing. …

Photoshop CS6 Public Beta Photoshop CS6 Public Beta

Photoshop CS6 Beta Now Available on Adobe Labs
First Major Release since April 2010 Packed with New Features and Huge Performance Enhancements
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta, a preview of what’s to …

Review: Nexto DI 500 GB NVS1501 Photo and Video Storage Review: Nexto DI 500 GB NVS1501 Photo and Video Storage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfAdqNhy9NU

Kerry’s Quick Shot: The Nexto DI NVS1501 is flat out the fastest and most reliable backup device I have ever used. I simply won’t leave home without it!

Last year I took my wife to Maui …