Buy a new camera and you might find you can’t process its raw images in Photoshop or Lightroom until Adobe updates its raw converter software. Use Adobe digital negative (DNG) as your raw format until then. Learn how.
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In the hands of a good photographer, a compact (or point-and-shoot) camera can capture excellent images. But only a few of these cameras are worthy of a pro or advanced amateur photographer. Find out how you can reduce your load and still get publishable pictures with the Canon G11, Panasonic LX-3, Nikon P6000 and Canon S90.
Should you protect your lens with a filter? UV/Haze and Skylight filters are commonly used to protect lenses, but keeping a filter on your lens all the time can lead to poorer-quality images. It might be best to use these filters only when they are needed and turn to lens hoods for protection that doesn’t affect your pictures.
Photographing outdoors? Use a polarizing filter. Software filters can simulate some of the effects of a polarizer, but only a polarizer on the end of your lens can cut glare and reflections. The result is more saturated color, better contrast and better pictures.
Omaha, Nebraska is an interesting place to photograph. A new addition, the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge over the Missouri river adds one more opportunity for photographers in this midwest city. Learn about photographing this thoroughly modern bridge.
Ever done something dumb with your camera? So many settings vying for our attention, it’s no wonder we sometimes screw it up. Or is it just me?
As traveling photographers, how do we keep the capture time of our images in sync with changing time zones? Adobe Lightroom 2 makes it easy. Learn how to quickly edit the capture time on a multiple images using Adobe Lightroom 2.
Travel with a laptop? Learn how to import photographs from your CF card to your laptop using Adobe Lightroom. Then import your catalog to your desktop when you get home. All the work you’ve done in the field to keyword and caption your images will be preserved. Lightroom makes it easy – with a few caveats.
Learn how to customize a slide style in ProShow Gold 4 and save it as your own so you can use it again in a future slide show production. Watch the 10-minute video and then follow along the step-by-step instructions. Start with one of ProShow Gold 4’s built-in slide styles. Change the motion effects, image sizes, caption, background, and colors. Then give it a name and save it in a new slide style category. Slide styles are a powerful new feature found in Photodex ProShow Gold 4.
Getting good photos at the Soap Box Derby may not be easy, but it can be done. And it’s fun! From start to finish, there is plenty to keep a photogapher busy. Learn about photo op possibilities before and during the race.
Slide Styles are one of the most powerful new features of ProShow Gold 4. In this video lesson, learn how to use ProShow’s amazing built-in slide styles.
Tne new Nikon D5000 SLR gives us a lot of reasons to upgrade. It has a variable angle LCD, does still and videos, and it’s reasonably priced. Nice!
Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 is only $60 for a limited time. It’s an excellent choice if you can’t afford it’s big brother,Adobe Photoshop CS4.
See some complex effects that can be accomplished using ProShow Gold 4, Adobe Photoshop, and a bit of work. Add pizazz to your slide shows.
San Diego’s Chinese New Year Food and Cultural Faire is a colorful festival for photographers. Get photo tips from a San Diego travel photographer who has been there. There’s a lot of action, so be prepared to get some great photos.
With 22 large balloons and dozens of bands and other entries, San Diego’s annual Big Bay Balloon Parade offers plenty of colorful photographic possibilities. Here are a few ideas to get best photos including tips on the best locations, camera equipment, and photo techniques.
Travel planning is a chore and we need all the help we can get. As travel photographers, we need to do a lot of research before, and during, a trip. Here are five websites that I never leave home without. They will help you choose a hotel and an airline seat, check the weather, get directions, and find the best prices for accomodations and flights.
After weeks of planning including scouting a handful of locations for photographing the steam train that would arrive in San Diego from Los Angeles on September 21st, 2008, I arrived at Seagrove Park in Del Mar fully equipped and ready. Or, was I?
Photographing the steam train that is coming to San Diego on September 21st will take careful planning. Here is a scouting report on seven possible San Diego County photo locations from Soledad lagoon in the south to Batiquitos Lagoon in the north.
It’s easy to find a steam train in a museum, but riding the tracks between two major cities? That’s special. San Diegans will have the opportunity to photograph two of these historic events in 2008. Read on for photo tips and a video of the June 1st, 2008 journey.
Adobe Lightroom 2.0 is here and it is a big improvement over version 1.4. There are many subtle improvements and a few major additions. The adjustment brush tool is brand new. With the adjustment brush, you can selectively paint in all sorts of adjustments that you used to have to do in Photoshop: exposure, saturation, and more. Watch my video and learn how to use the new adjustment brush in Adobe Lightroom 2.0 here.
For a long weekend in May, the Red Bull Air Races made San Diego bay their home. From Friday, May 2nd through Sunday, May 4th, San Diego hosted the second of ten races scheduled for the 2008 season. With plans to make San Diego a permanent stop on the race tour, a dozen daring pilots in high-performance aircraft navigated the 13 tight turns marked by air-filled pylons floating on San Diego bay.
The Optix-XR monitor calibrator with software version 2.0 does not work with Windows Vista. But, there is a way to update the Optix software so that your Optix-XR doesn’t turn into an expensive doorstop. Follow these steps and the Optix-XR CAN be used with Windows Vista.
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