Northlight Images has a great article on how to use your LCD screen to check and fine tune your auto focus on your camera. Canon’s two most recent pro-level cameras the 1D and 1Ds Mark III cameras feature a AF microadjustment setting. You can use this microadjustment to fine tune exactly where your camera focuses [...]
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by admin
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Professionalsnapshots.Com’s website is running a multi part series on workflow.
Day One was “Overview” with a quick rundown from image capture to print.
Day Two naming and organizing your images.
Day Three is a great look at DNG versus the RAW format.
Day four is editing.
If you take a lot of images and/or don’t have a great deal of [...]
Posted on March 28th, 2008 by admin
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Adobe has released a beta version of their new web based version of Photoshop! This is a slimmed down version of Photoshop but still very powerful and useful. You have to sign up for your free account that includes 2 GB of online storage. The interface for uploading your files is quite [...]
Posted on March 27th, 2008 by admin
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Photoshop is a great tool and like all tools there is more than one way to get to the same effect or correction. This is one of the reasons I really enjoy reading online tutorials and tips and tricks. By seeing what works for other people you can find better and/or faster ways of [...]
Posted on March 17th, 2008 by admin
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I am often asked for my advice on accessories by people who have just purchased a new DSLR. I am going to break this in to several parts so I can provide some detail and thoughts about each
Part Three – A fast lens
I am a big proponent of expanding your possibilities and trying something different. [...]
Posted on March 15th, 2008 by admin
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I am often asked for my advice on accessories by people who have just purchased an new DSLR. I am going to break this in to several parts so I can provide some detail and thoughts about each
Part Two – A bulb type blower
One if the downsides of DSLR cameras is dust. It is [...]
Posted on March 14th, 2008 by admin
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I am often asked for my advice on accessories by people who have just purchased an new DSLR. I am going to break this in to several parts so I can provide some detail and thoughts about each
Part One – A tripod
The more support/stability you can give your camera while acquiring the image is likely [...]
Posted on March 13th, 2008 by admin
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I thought I had seen it all in the area of DIY (Do it yourself) for photography until I saw DIYPhotography.net. This site has some really interesting ides for photographic items such as creating a beauty dish from a turkey pan to stabilizing your camera while shooting with a washer, bolt, and some string. The [...]
Posted on March 12th, 2008 by admin
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Tired of the same old gallery templates provided in Lightroom? There are a number of places on the web that have free downloads to change things up a bit. “Lightroom Galleries” not only has some neat gallery add-ons that you can download for free but tutorials, news, and a user forum as well. [...]
Posted on March 11th, 2008 by admin
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The Image Space a website by Joe Barret has released a “Lightroom Tips eBook” as a free download. With 30+ tips that are also available on “The Image Space” Site. The book format makes it easy to access and all in one place. This site is a wealth of information and great [...]
Posted on March 10th, 2008 by admin
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Scott Kelby who is in my opinion a guru of everything about digital photography has many books out and recently published “The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom book for Digital Photographers”. Scott has authored a number of book that deal specifically with Adobe Photoshop and now Lightroom. The style that Scott writes in is very [...]
Posted on January 6th, 2008 by admin
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