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Best Features of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is one of the photography software programs which is developed for Microsoft Windows and Mac operating system X by the Adobe Systems.
The aim of developing this program is in help users …
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Public Beta Now Available
Adobe today announced the availability of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 beta for Windows and Mac. Adobe Lightroom is the essential photography workflow application allowing photography enthusiasts and professionals to enhance, organize and share photos. The …
Mastering Your Flash 101 – Learning to Love eTTL/iTTL
For many people the thought of taking their flash off of eTTL/iTTL mode is as intimidating as BASE jumping off a bridge, this is because they haven’t even fully mastered these automatic settings yet. …
Adobe Announces Lightroom 4.4 and Camera Raw 7.4 Final Release
Adobe today announced the availability of Lightroom 4.4 and Camera Raw 7.4 final releases as downloads on Adobe.com and through the update mechanism inside Photoshop CS6. The releases provide bug fixes reported in previous releases, …
The Sunny 16 Rule in Photography
Although you may think that no two situations are alike, the fact is that there are quite a few constants that you can rely on to give you a good starting point. The sun is one of these things you can count on to be consistent. Of course there are things that affect the sun’s output like the time of day, haze, fog, and clouds, but on a bright sunny day the light output is very consistent and knowing the camera settings for this condition will give you a guideline to make adjustments. This is where the “sunny 16″ rule comes into play.
Review: Multiblitz Profilux Monolight
Ok, let ‘s start this off with a few disclaimers here. First, hell is not freezing over, pigs are not flying, and the world is not coming to an end, although many of you may …
Portrait Retouching with Adobe Lightroom 4
In this installment of Learning Lightroom I will show you some of the basics of portrait retouching within Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4. Some of the things we will do will be to remove blemishes, smooth …
Getting Flash Exposure Fast
In this episode of our Friday Photo Tips I answer a common question about how to get flash exposure dialed in quickly when using manual strobes. This will work whether you are using manual speedlights …
How to hold your camera
In this week’s Friday Photo Tip I show you some different techniques for holding your camera to help prevent camera shake. Accidentally moving the camera when taking a picture is one of the leading causes of fuzzy …
How to clean your DSLR sensor
In this episode I show you how to clean the sensor on your DSLR or mirrorless camera. To clean the sensor I use a LensPen SensorPen and KlearLoupe. This kit allows you to easily see …
Using a reflector
In this episode, Kerry Garrison (http://kerrygarrison.com) shows how to use a reflector to bounce sunlight onto a subject to help improve your natural light portraits
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Learning Lightroom: Fake Depth of Field
In this week’s Learning Lightroom video I show how you can use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’s Local Adjustment Brush to “paint” in a blurred effect that is somewhat like a short depth of field look. We …
Posing Basics – The Step Up
Most of the poses we have seen so far in our posing series have been used to show a woman’s curves or can even be used to hide unwanted curves. This pose, which I call …
How to clean your lenses
Keeping your lenses clean is easier than most people think but does require a few things to make sure you do it properly. This week, I show you the best way to clean your lenses. During …
Review: Canon EOS M Mirrorless Camera
If you haven’t bought a mirrorless camera yet, you will soon. Yes, that is a pretty bold statement, but let’s face reality here, it is more than “just likely” that ALL cameras will be mirrorless …
Posing Basics – Knees in or Out
In the second installment of our Posing Basics series we will look at another simple technique to add a little style to your subjects with just a little knee action. The result is very similar …
Podcast #132 – Jason Groupp and WPPI
Jason Groupp has been a photographer in New York for over 20 years and I am a big fan of his work, his style, and his teaching techniques. We have had Jason on the podcast …
Posing Basics – The S Curve
One day my wife came home to find me sitting in the middle of the living room floor surrounded by torn up fashion magazines. After the appropriate jokes about what I could possibly be doing …
