I’ve had my eye on the Micro 4/3 cameras for a while now. When Olympus released the E-P1 a few years ago it was hard to resist to cool retro styling and the promise of “DSLR quality” in a small package. All of the reviews complained about the SLOW auto focus and the less than [...]
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 [...]
Atlanta area photographers can find lots of great classes at the Showcase School of Photography. The school offers photography classes for beginners and advanced photographers. If you are just getting into the world of photography, there are classes like Digital 101 and Digital 102. If you are ready for the next step you might consider [...]
I am available Mondays and Tuesdays for private classes in basic camera skills, advanced photography techniques, HDR shooting and processing and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. No matter what your skill level, I am confident that I can improve your image making. I can come to your home or office in the Atlanta area to teach the [...]
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 have an old Samsonite roll-aboard suitcase that I put a padded divider set in to hold camera gear. The wheels are terrible, the handle is rickety and it tips over when it’s loaded. I was preparing to lead a workshop in Costa Rica recently and I figured it was time for a new rolling camera bag.
My experience with Think Tank Photo products made their rolling bags my first choice.
For Christmas my wife surprised me with a Think Tank backpack. It’s the Streetwalker Hard Drive model. For a long time I’ve wanted a backpack that would hold my gear and my laptop. I always hated having one carry on for my gear and another carry on for my computer. Now I can cram all that in to one bag.
There was only one reason I didn’t order a Black Rapid DR-1 Double Strap when I fist saw one: there did not seem to be a convenient way to use the DR-1 with a Really Right Stuff L-bracket. Yes, you can attach the fastenR-2 to the RRS bracket, but you have to remove it before you can clamp the bracket onto your tripod. I asked the Black Rapid guys about this at Photoshop World and they didn’t really have any suggestions.
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 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 [...]
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