Creating perfect white backgrounds in Lightroom 2.0
In this tutorial i show you have to take a product shot and make sure you have a perfect white background around it. This will make use of the new retouching tool in Lightroom 2.0 Public Beta. Continue...
View ArticlePodcast #6 – The Ins and Outs of Wedding Photography Part 2
In this week’s podcast David and I finish the conversation from last week about wedding photography. This week we go into more of the business side of things such as contracts and talk a little about...
View ArticlePodcast #10 – Nikon News, Using a tripod, cheat sheet
This week Kerry and David discuss the new Nikon D700, the new Nikon Tilt-Shift Lenses, and the new Nikon SB-900 Flash. Nikon Website: http://imaging.nikon.com/products/imaging/index.htm Are you too...
View ArticleRecover your lost camera and memory cards
While the odds of ever recovering a lost camera or memory card are probably still less than your odds of winning the lottery or getting struck by lightning, a new site offers a glimmer of hope and has...
View ArticleCanon PowerShot line in SX1 IS with 1080p video
Move over Nikon with your piddly 780p D-Movie, Canon attacks back with a consumer grade camera that can do 1080p! The new SX10 IS features a 10 megapixel CMOS sensor, face detection, motion detection,...
View ArticleLensbaby Introduces New Line of Lenses for Creative Photography
Three new lenses – The ComposerTM, The MuseTM, and The Control FreakTM – feature the Lensbaby Optic Swap System On September 23, 2008, Lensbaby, LLC (formerly known as Lensbabies, LLC) is launching an...
View ArticlePhotoshop CS4 with Camera Raw 5 Now Shipping
The 5th major iteration of the Camera Raw plug-in is now shipping as part of Photoshop CS4. Camera Raw 5 has a number of new features: Local adjustment brush Graduated Filter “Post Crop” Vignetting...
View ArticleCanon Releases several software updates
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...
View ArticleShould you do work for free?
David Hobby (http://strobist.com) has posted a thought provoking article today about whether or not you should consider doing work for free. This isn’t to say you should go on Craigslist and post that...
View ArticleComparison of HDR Techniques
HDR Photography is a method of combining multiple exposures into a single image in order to achieve a greater dynamic range in an image. If that sounded a bit complex, let’s break that down a bit more....
View ArticlePoll Results – How much do you shoot
Time to change out the poll and review the results of the last one. Our last poll was about how many photos do you take per week and the numbers were actually very interesting. 23% shoot 101 – 250...
View ArticleOnOne Software’s Focal Point
Focal Point is OneOne Software’s newest Photoshop plug-in that allows you to create images with selective focus and edge vignette effects. Using these techniques you can guide the viewer’s eye to the...
View Article20 Best Photography Websites of 2008
2008 was certainly a banner year for photography enthusiasts when it comes to the number and quality of websites that you have to choose from. We certainly appreciate all the visitors here at...
View ArticleCanon EOS 5D Mk II Hands-On Impressions
Oh Canon 5D Mk II, how doest I love thee, let me count the ways. That could pretty much sum up my impressions of the newest camera from the folks at Canon but it probably doesn’t tell you what you...
View ArticlePodcast #32 – Conversation with David Ziser – Master Wedding Photographer
In this show Kerry and David talk about the last photo contest and announce the winner: “Lost That Spare Tire” from PeptidBond. He will receive a new R-Strap from BlackRapid. They also announce the...
View ArticlePhoto Contest – Converging Lines
While it may be the middle of winter for some of you, we are going to launch a new photo contest based on an idea from a recent podcast host, Roberto Valenzuela. This contest is going to be about...
View ArticleList of Free Adobe Lightroom Presets
We get asked all the time for more and more Lightroom presets and were do find good free ones. I have been working on this list for a while now and will do my best to keep it updated. If you have...
View ArticlePodcast #33 – Conversation with Carlos Baez
Kerry and David talk with Carlos Baez about the recent controversy over the new video called Engage (http://engagingfilms.com), using specialty lenses, getting started with lighting, trends in wedding...
View ArticlePodcast #36 – Conversation with Pictage CEO Jason Kiefer
Kerry and David talk to Jason Kiefer, the CEO of Pictage, to discuss how photographers can get more revenue by selling prints and how to maximize those print sales by understanding who it is that is...
View ArticleWPPI Highlights Part 1
This WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) has been a great show already with tons of great speakers, two huge ballrooms of vendors, and lots of great networking with other...
View ArticleWPPI Highlights – Part 2 – Video Interviews
In today’s WPPI highlights we talk to the folks at A Portrait Project to learn more about this incredible new foundation that provides photographs to women who have been victims of abuse so that they...
View ArticleNik Software Announces Plug-in Update for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2
Award-winning Vivezaâ„¢ now compatible with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Las Vegas, NV (PMA Booth #U221) – March 3, 2009 - Nik Software announces today that Viveza, its popular digital photographic...
View ArticlePodcast #40 – Picking the winner of the converging lines contest with Roberto...
Kerry and David discuss some of the cool finds from the PMA 2009 show (see CameraDojo.com for video highlights). The guys also announce the details for the next photo contest that will begin this week...
View ArticleLearning to shoot in manual mode
While today’s cameras do a pretty good job when in fully automatic mode, in order to make the most of your camera you should learn how to use your camera on the manual setting. To go full manual you...
View ArticleRAW vs. JPEG – Deciding which is best for you
Yes, RAW vs. JPEG, the seemingly endless debate, almost as bad as Mac vs. PC or Film vs. Digital and people have been asking me to write up an article on this based on my opinion and experience and I...
View ArticlePhotography Basics: Beginners Guide to Aperture
As part of our Photography Basics series we talked about Exposure already and this time we are going to cover the mystery of aperture. Aperture is probably the least understood setting of everything on...
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