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
Fans of Camera Dojo know that we are huge fans of the Blackrapid R-Strap (review). This innovative camera strap is being used by the likes of Scott Kelby and Dane Sanders now as well. Blackrapid has just announced their newest version, the RS-4. The RS-4 is a slim profile camera strap with an outside zippered pocket that can hold a couple of memeory cards for quick access. The new RS-4 should be available now for $49.95.
We have a winner!! Congratulations to Dana Schagunn from North Dakota. Dana is going to receive one of the first Shapeshifter bags from Think Tank Photo. Dana successfully entered the answer to our scavenger hunt question and got the answer to us in time and was selected by random drawing from several hundred entries we had.
MELVILLE, N.Y. (Nov. 30, 2008) – Nikon Inc. today announced the D3X, an FX-format digital SLR featuring extreme 24.5-megapixel resolution and superb low-noise capabilities, which provides professional photographers with commercial-quality image performance in a familiar and extraordinarily versatile D-SLR form factor. In conjunction with the groundbreaking Nikon FX-format D3, the D3X tops off a collection of flagship level, rugged, professional caliber digital single lens reflex cameras engineered to excel in all types of professional photographic disciplines from photojournalism and sideline sports, to commercial in-studio applications.
In this episode Kerry and Doug talk about the background of Think Tank Photo and their philosophy of why they create the products they do. They also discuss the updates to many of the Think Tank Photo products that was announced recently and discuss the upcoming Shapeshifter backpack.
This new version of the Camera Raw plug-in replaces the original Camera Raw plug-in that was installed with Adobe® Creative Suite® 4, Photoshop® CS4, Photoshop Elements 6 or 7, and Adobe Premiere® Elements 4.0 or 7 software.
Let’s face it, Adobe seriously dropped the ball on watermarking within Lightroom. Many of us got hints about potential new watermarking features for Lightroom 2.0 but were disappointed when there was nothing added. For many of us, Lightroom is the tool that we use for 90%+ of our workflow including prepping images for use on the web so the last thing we want to do is run some action in Photoshop or have to run an additional application to apply watermarks which reduces the image quality because the jpeg image has to be saved a second time.
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In this video Kerry shows you a demo of the new Pixel Bender Gallery plugin. This is used to add special Pixel Bender effects to your images from Adobe Photoshop CS4. You will need to download the Pixel Bender plugin and any filters you want to add.
Canon has posted updates to Digital Photo Professional, EOS Utility, WFT Utility and Picture Style Editor for Mac and Windows, bringing new features as well as support for digital SLRs up to and including the EOS 5D Mark II. They’ve also released a new version of Canon RAW Codec for Windows, which also adds support for the EOS 5D Mark II.
Kerry and Gavin discuss the use of HDR photography to bring an expanded dynamic range to your images.
Pixel Bender Gallery Plugin is now available for Adobe Photoshop CS4. This plugin is actually more of a framework to allow Pixel Blender plugins to be used, these can be all kinds of different effects from sharpening, to blurring, to warping, and much more.
Think Tank Photo is offering some awesome deals that give you three ways to get free bags or belts from Think Tank Photo as you “gear up” for 2009. Buy a roller, Airport backpack, or modular set at one of any of their US retailers or directly from Think Tank Photo, send them the coupon and your sales receipt, and Think Tank Photo will send you the free gift.
