2009 November | The Digital Photo Experience

2009/11/03 New Soft KISSes from Kiss Wedding books

November 3, 2009

KISS wedding books, the premier maker of custom wedding books makes a whole slew of new announcements, new Soft Cover books, New website with simpler ordering, and new design options. Check them out at:

2009/11/03 New ThinkTank Photo Urban Disguise 70 Pro

By Juan Pons

November 3, 2009

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It’s no secret that we are big fans of ThinkTank Photo bags around here. And we are happy to see them releasing this new larger, or how the refer to it “Cavernous” Urban Disguise photo bag. I personally own the Urban Disguise 50 and love it, it is a perfect blend of briefcase and camera [...]

2009/10/21 Lightroom 3 beta now available

By Juan Pons

November 2, 2009

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The Lightroom development team has just announced that a beta of Lightroom is now available to the public. Lightroom is both mine as well as Ricks preferred photo editing and management tool. Wether you are a Lightroom veteran or a newbie, we highly encourage you to download this new beta and take it thru it’s [...]

2009/10/27 DSLR Camera Remote 1.2 now available

By Juan Pons

November 2, 2009

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OnOne has announced that version 1.2 of their revolutionary DSLR Camera Remote application for the iPhone and iPod Touch has been approved by the Apple app store and is now immediately available. For more information go to: http://www.ononesoftware.com/blog/2009/10/27/dslr-camera-remote-v1-2-now-available/

2009/10/22 Nik Announces Viveza 2.0

By Juan Pons

November 2, 2009

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Nik has announced the release of an all new version of their incredibly popular Viveza plugin. We have to admit that we are big fans of Viveza around here and are really looking forward to the new release. However we will have to wait just a bit as this new version will be made available [...]

2009/10/21 Flickr Launches “People in Photos”

By Juan Pons

November 2, 2009

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Flickr has just announced that they have launched a new feature called “People in Photos”. This new feature allows you to tag the folks that appear in a photo; this feature is very similar to that already available on Facebook and the latest version of iPhoto. For more information go to: http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/10/21/people-in-photos/

My Favorite Wildlife Zoom Lens

By Rick Sammon

November 2, 2009

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Like you, I enjoy taking wildlife pictures. Also like you, I am not a full-time professional wildlife photographer. Most of these those folks use expensive fixed focal length lenses to get them up-close-and-personal with their subjects. For folks like us, zoom lenses, I think, are a better choice. They are more affordable for one thing. [...]

Watch the Horizon Line

By Rick Sammon

November 2, 2009

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Here’s an easy, but important tip: Keep the horizon line level. That’s sometimes not that easy, especially when you are photographing from a bouncing boat, as I was when I took this picture in Antarctica. If the horizon line is askew, you can straighten it in Photoshop using the Measure tool. The placement of the [...]