My good friend Rick Sammon was in town yesterday for a class on using small flash to create big, beautiful light. 19 students were on hand to learn basic skills and some advanced techniques for manual and TTL automatic flash. Showcase Photo and Video provided Westcott Apollo soft boxes, backdrops and more. Rick showed [...]
There hasn’t been much news on this page lately, and I’m sorry about that. The good news is that updates have been few and far between because I have been busy teaching and traveling. I had a great time presenting at the Blue Ridge Photo Fest in Boone, NC with Juan Pons, Leander Hutton and [...]
This is a six-week comprehensive class on Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 that covers the Lightroom workflow from beginning to end. This is no one-day Lightroom overview. I want to teach you how to use Lightroom, not just show you what it can do. The class is available Friday mornings from 9:00am-11:00am. The next Friday classes [...]
I shot my friends Jon and Lauren with Jon’s new (vintage) tandem bicycle. He asked me to pinstripe the fenders, so I thought I would bring my gear over and try to make a few photos. The sunset was one of the most beautiful I have ever seen! The light was mostly two Elinchrom Ranger [...]
There were a lot of changes for Atlanta’s Drive Invasion this year. The annual music, hot rod and movie party has traditionally taken over the Starlight Drive-In for most of Labor Day weekend. This year the event was only 1 day, and it was moved to mid-October. The weather was definitely cooler than usual and [...]
Photo by Eric Thomson I recently hosted some local photographers for a visit to Atlanta’s Dragon-Con Science-Fiction and Fantasy convention. Besides vendors and celebrity guests, DragonCon is home to hundreds of attendees in elaborate, often homemade costumes. It was a great opportunity for the photographers in the group to shoot some out-of-this-world people and practice [...]
Rick Sammon and I just wrapped up the first Digital Photo Experience Weekend in Atlanta. The 20+ attendees were treated to Rick’s presentation of photo and HDR tips Saturday morning, and (hopefully) enthralled by my Lightroom presentation on Saturday afternoon We had beautiful models and great locations on Sunday as we modified light using reflectors, diffusers [...]
I wanted to do a post to address the Lightroom info that people are searching for lately. There are a few questions that seem to come up regularly. Here are a few of those questions, and some things I’ve helped my friends with lately. This is a simple thing, but it had a friend of [...]
It’s funny how much energy photographers have expended debating this topic. I will admit that when I see someone holding their SLR camera like this… I assume that person is a novice. Mainly because most “pro” photographers have figured out how to hold their camera for maximum sharpness. I’ve read articles that mention HOW to [...]
I had planned to write this post today BEFORE I read Scott Kelby’s post this morning about collections in Lightroom. It was interesting to read his post because we pretty much end up at the same place, but we take a different route to get there… As you know from my previous post, I import [...]
When I started posting Adobe Photoshop Lightroom tutorials a few weeks ago I started with the adjustment brush. It occurred to me that the adjust brush is a weird place to START a series about Lightroom, so I decided to go back to the beginning and talk about my workflow. For me, the most important part [...]
I’m going to start this week with a quick tip that I just learned. Say you’re working with a brush to lighten part of your image, and you have painted over a section with your density at 100. Now say you decide that you would rather not have that section quite so light, but the [...]
I wanted to begin this post with a word about the “flow” and “density” sliders inside the Adjustment Brush panel. These are very important for controlling how your adjustments are applied, but they are fairly simple to figure out. Think of the density slider as the maximum that the effect can be applied. For example, [...]
I get a lot of questions about my Think Tank Photo Rotation 360º backpack from other photographers. “Is that that crazy backpack that spins around?”, “does that thing really work?”, etc. I also read a “review” recently of the “new” Rotation 360º backpack that was written by someone who apparently used the pack once and [...]
I have been experimenting with Lightroom’s adjustment brush lately, and I have come up with some great uses for this versatile tool. This first tip can be applied to many different kinds of images, and can save you a trip to Photoshop and back… I took this shot at a workshop in St Augustine, Florida [...]
I don’t think I’m the only one that is always in search of the perfect camera bag. I would be embarrassed to tell you how many camera bags I have acquired over the last ten years. The problem is that a bag that is perfect for one situation might be totally annoying and difficult to [...]
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