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
I have had the hardest time dealing with camera bags over the years, from my first backback that got so heavy I couldn’t lug it around anymore to my uber cool Airport International 2.0 which is great for big jobs but what about when I want to go a little lighter? My old backback is too large, and my Airport International is too big, and my Modulous Speed Belt can’t hold enough nor is appropriate when traveling. So what does that leave?
Michael asks about what you do about eating during a long wedding shoot. Kerry and David talk about making sure you get fed and carrying snacks on you just in case.
Jason asks where do you get inspiration from.
If you were lucky enough to make millions during the dot-com boom and didn’t loose it all in the recent financial turmoil, then you may be able to afford the new camera systems just announced by Red Digital Cinema. There is nothing in the known universe that comes close to the specs on these digital powerhouses. With sensors that will be available ranging from 3 megapixels to a staggering 261 megapixels.
Kerry and David talk about how to add some spice to your shots, some of the ideas covered include:
* shooting from different angles
* changing your depth of field
* dissect other people’s work
* Look at EXIF data on people’s images
Fans of The Digital Photography Show podcast with Scott Sherman and Michael Stein will soon be able to listen to them once again. Scott and Michael are launching their new show, Digital Photography Life over at PersonalLifeMedia.com, the same podcasting network we use here at Camera Dojo.
Another new feature in Photoshop CS4 is the Live Preview when using the Cloning and Stamping tool. What this does for you is show you exactly what the effect of the tool is going to be while you are using it. Where you will probably find this to be the most useful is lining things up with the clone tool or making sure color tones and brightness levels match well.
Kerry and David discuss the new features of Adobe Photoshop CS4 and give their impressions of Lightroom 2.1.
Kerry talks about OnOne Software’s Photoframe 4.0 and FocalPoint 1.0.
If you have been playing around with Photoshop CS4 you may have noticed that a few features such as Extract and Web Gallery aren’t where they used to be. So where did they go? Photoshop CS4 has replaced some features and moved others to the Bridge Output module.
Today we are going to take a look at a new feature in Photoshop CS4, the Fluid Zoom and View Rotation tools. The Fluid Zoom allows for smooth zooming in and out of an image with much finer control than every before. The View Rotation tool allows you to rotate the view of the image around to make working on an image easier.
Now you can put a Camera Dojo widget on your own website! We know have a new widget that you can put on virtually any website and help other people know all about Camera Dojo. Every time we post a new article, your Camera Dojo widget will be automatically updated.
One of the coolest new tools in Adobe Photoshop CS4 is the Content Aware Scaling. With this new tool you can scale images and yet protect certain areas from being distorted, this is very useful for a variety of different applications. This short video clip will show you just how powerful, and how easy it is to use this new feature.
Adobe has released Lightroom 2.1 and Camera Raw 5.1 along with the DNG Converter 5.1. Lightroom 2.1 has been in a release candidate state for several weeks and has some improvements and fixes over the initial 2.0 release. Both Lightroom 2.1 and Camera Raw 5.1 include camera support for the following new models:
