Geo Tagging comes to Nikon Cameras

Categories: News

Wolverine Data  announces the most advanced GPS geographical tag accessory for your Nikon D200, D300, D2Hs, D2Xs, D3 or Fujifilm S5 Pro Photo! The Wolverine GEO is a GPS accessory that attaches to the latest Nikon or Fuji DSLR's to tag your exact location every time you take a picture. No need to guess where you took a picture, no need to manually associate each picture with location. The Wolverine GEO takes this burden away and map-tag your ... Read More

Worldwide Photowalk Day - August 23rd

Categories: Misc

A Photowalk is a group of people walking around a specific area for about two hours taking pictures of the area. Popular photowalks occur in  Washington DC, New York, and even in small towns. On August 23rd, in over 100 cities around the world, people of all kinds will be participating in photowalks in their area. Even if you only have a cell phone camera, I encourage you to get out with a group and meet new people, have some fun, and ... Read More

Podcast #12 - Dragging the shutter, Making Clients Comfortable, Weekly Tips

Categories: Podcasts

 
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Kerry, David, and Maurice sit down and talk about how to get good shots in low light by "dragging the shutter" and how to use the technique to get some interesting visual effects. The team also discusses how to make your clients comfortable and everyone throws their tips into the pot again this week. This podcast is part of our series that is available on iTunes. Read More

Adjustment Tool Overlay Tip

Categories: Lightroom tutorials

I picked up this tip from LightroomKillertips.com this morning and just had to share it with everyone. If you are using the new adjustment tool in Lightroom 2.0, this is going to save you lots of time in getting your adjustments painted in properly. If you hit O (oh, not zero), while you are in the adjustment tool you can turn on the overlay and paint with it still turned on. Hit O again to turn it off. You can also use Shift-O ... Read More

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 Camera Calibration

Categories: Lightroom tutorials

In this quick video, Kerry shows how to use the Camera Calibration feature of Lightroom 2.0 along with the new Adobe Camera Profiles to get your images looking better, faster. Continue reading to view this video. Read More

ShutterScoop.com launched

Categories: News

If you like Digg, Reddit, or StumbleUpon but want a site that is specific to photography. We have the answer for you. shutterSCOOP.com is a voting site dedicated to photography topics. Add new articles that you find around on the internet and submit them to the system. As other people vote the popular sites rise to the top. While there have been attempts to run sites like this in the past, none of them are actively being maintained anymore. Since shutterSCOOP.com is ... Read More

Lightroom 2.0 Overview

Categories: Lightroom tutorials, Podcasts

 
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Today Kerry takes you through some of the new features in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0. In this video you will see the new retouching tool, new library function, the new vignette tool, and new improvements to the slideshow module. More videos will be coming that will focus on specific new features and go into greater detail but this will give you a good overview of the new features. Read More

Lightroom 2.0 / Camera Raw 4.5 Released

Categories: News

Almost a month before any of us expected it, Adobe has released the much anticipated Photoshop Lightroom 2.0. For those of us who have been using the public beta, there are a number of very cool new features in the final release. If you haven't been using the public beta, then oh man, are you in for a treat if you decide to upgrade. Here is my list of things that make Lightroom 2.0 simply awesome, and I will point out changes from ... Read More

Please don’t steal my content

Categories: Misc

We really appreciate other blogs linking to our articles and usually they copy the first paragraph so their readers know what the linked article is about. While technically this is a violation of the Digital Millinium Copyright Act, I would never take action since they are only taking a snippet of an article and linking back to the entire article. Where I really have a problem is people stealing my images that I took myself and people who completely steal the entire content ... Read More

Understanding Light Stops

Categories: Lighting Tips, Shooting Tips

One thing that seems to baffle a lot of new photographers is understanding the term "stop" as it pertains to a measurement of light. We see this word used over and over with regards to shutter speed, aperture, film speed, filters, lighting, and other ways that light is used. You may hear a phrase like "you should expose one side of face 1-2 stops under the lit side of the face and expose the background 1 stop under the main subject". For ... Read More