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Bad Light? Not for Portraits…

Friday, September 3, 2010

Overcast skies may be bad for landscape photography, but they are great for shooting portraits. When shooting under cloudy skies you’ve got a giant overhead softbox to work with. This creates soft light that wraps around your subject and makes it easy to capture a proper exposure without blown highlights or harsh shadows. This soft [...]

Tethered Capture in Lightroom 3 Beta 2

By Rob Knight

Monday, May 10, 2010

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Tethered shooting is a great way to make sure you’re “getting the shot”. Shooting tethered means that your DSLR camera is attached to your computer so that your images transfer directly to your hard drive instead of being saved to your memory card. The camera is normally connected to the computer via a USB cable,and [...]

Lightroom Week: Filter Friday

By Rob Knight

Friday, April 2, 2010

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I’ve already written about Lightroom’s Library filters (read the article HERE), so I’m going to talk about a different type of filter for Filter Friday. There is an adjustment in Photoshop called “Photo Filter”. It contains several preset colors that warm or cool your image, as well as presets for adding more dramatic colors. These [...]

Targeted Color Adjustments in Lightroom

By Rob Knight

Thursday, March 25, 2010

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One of the things I have always liked about Lightroom is it’s simplicity. With just a few tips, most people can be up & running organizing and developing photos in no time. Another thing I enjoy about Lightroom is finding uses for the adjustment tools that are not necessarily obvious at first glance. Here are [...]

Un-clutter your Library with Lightroom’s Stacks

By Rob Knight

Friday, March 5, 2010

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Un-clutter your Library with Lightroom’s Stacks

Using Stacks in Lightroom is a convenient way to group similar photos together in grid view and the filmstrip. This is especially helpful if you regularly end up with multiple images of the same subject. You may have multiple shots of the same pose from a portrait session, a string of images from shooting wildlife, [...]

Bracketing for HDR with Nikon DSLRs

By Rob Knight

Friday, February 26, 2010

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When you are shooting images you intend to combine into a high dynamic range (HDR) image you usually want one image at the recommended exposure, one image under exposed by 2 stops and one image overexposed by 2 stops. Most DSLR cameras today can capture these three images quickly and easily using a feature called [...]

Shoot Outside the Box

By Rob Knight

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

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I recently had the pleasure of assisting Juan Pons at his “Geese, Swans and Bears” photo workshop in North Carolina. Birds are not a frequent subject of mine, but I always jump at the chance to learn something new. As photographers, we tend to concentrate our efforts on learning one particular type of photography. It could [...]

Distilling the Scene

By Rob Knight

Thursday, January 14, 2010

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One of the differences between snap-shots and great photographs is what is NOT included in the frame. New photographers tend to include everything they see in their pictures, while experienced photographers are more deliberate about their composition. I don’t mean that experienced photographers always think about the rule of thirds or leading lines, but they [...]

Put Your Tripod to Work as a Light Stand

By Rob Knight

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

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I love any camera gear that can do more than one job. That means I can pack less and pack lighter when I travel. I’m even happier if I can put something I’m already carrying to a different use. I was recently looking for a way to use my tripod, which I alway carry, as [...]

2010/01/06 Nikon updates D3x, D3, D700 & D300s firmware

By Alan Hess

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

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Nikon has posted firmware updates for the D3X, D3, D700 & D300S DSLRs. The latest firmware allows all four cameras to use the new 64GB CompactFlash cards. Other changes are as follows: D3x When some memory cards were inserted in the camera, “CHA” was displayed in the top control panel and images could not be captured. This issue [...]