I mentioned in my last post that I use my Nikon kit for shooting for paying clients, and I was asked why that is. I think the short answer is that I know what the Nikon D800E is capable of, but I am not as confident with the image quality from the Olympus OM-D E-M5. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Rick Sammon and I are leading a photo workshop in Atlanta, GA this August 13-15. Here’s a quick video with the details…
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 will be teaching a photography workshop in Costa Rica in March of 2010. Focussed on travel photography, it will cover basic camera skills, composition and Adobe Photoshop® Lightroom® workflow. I will only be accepting five students, so register early if you’re interested. All of the particulars and online registration at www.edgeoftheworldworkshops.com