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 […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Photograph © Rick Sammon. All Rights Reserved. Early one morning while exploring a remote region of The Royal Kingdom of Bhutan, I spotted this scene next to a school: students and their teaching saying a morning prayer before class. I wanted to get the shot and I wanted to get everything in the scene in […]
Continue reading...Friday, April 16, 2010
Skies are often a challenge for photographers. If we expose properly for the ground, skies often get light and washed out. If we expose properly for the sky, the ground gets too dark. If we use a graduated neutral density filter, the whole sky gets dark as well as any upright parts of the ground. […]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 15, 2010
MediaStorm, the brainchild of multimedia producer Brian Storm, has just posted the “MediaStorm’s Guide to Final Cut Pro Resources on the Web“, a very comprehensive list of the most important resources on the web for those interested in Final Cut Pro. If use or are interested in learning mode about FCP, this is an awesome […]
Continue reading...Friday, April 2, 2010
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 […]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 25, 2010
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 […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Apple has just announced this morning the latest version of their photo management and editing platform, Aperture 3.0. Aperture 3 brings some of the most loved features of iPhoto into their professional level software package. Features like Faces and Places, but also add higher end features like non-destructive edge aware brushes for applying selective adjustments […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 27, 2010
There are many ways to find your photos inside Lightroom. The Library Filter bar contains several tools that make finding specific images easier. You can apply these filters one at a time or in combinations to see only the images you’re looking for. To apply multiple filters, command(cntrl) click on the filter names in the […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 13, 2010
With the introduction of the Canon 5D Mark II and its true High Definition video capabilities, the Digital SLR landscape was changed forever. You can now expect every new Digital SLR to have similar capabilities. As photographers, we find ourselves having to learn something new, not just artistically, but also technically. One of the main […]
Continue reading...Monday, November 23, 2009
I hear about so many people having problems editing 7D & 5D2 video that I thought it would be worthwhile posting a quick note on one of the easiest ways to edit it. The 7D & 5D2 video format is called h.264, this is the most advanced video compression format around, meaning that it can […]
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