Technique

LightRoom Plugins – Update

September 9, 2009 Photo Gear

I wrote about my favorite plugins for LightRoom a while back, but since that time I’ve added a few more to my collection. So here is an updated list of my current favorites.Timothy Armes at the Photographers Toolbox continues to create more useful plugins, and in addition to the ones I covered in the first post, [...]

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Selecting Your Best Images

August 26, 2009 Craft

I recently wrote an article here titled Lessons of Editing about the process of separating your good images from your great ones. Since then, I’ve continued to work on my own workflow and the methods by which I try and determine which images are special. Charles Cramer is one of my favorite photographers on many [...]

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Back From Acadia

August 4, 2009 Craft

(Canon 1DS MK III, EF70-200 f/2.8L IS) 70mm, 1/320 sec at f/11, ISO 200 I’m finally back from my extended camping trip to Maine and Acadia National Park. Although the weather was quite “wet” to say the least, it was a great trip both in terms of family time and photography. I’m quite fortunate in [...]

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Realistic HDR Photography

May 5, 2009 Craft

High dynamic range photography, otherwise known as HDR, has become extremely popular these days given all of the tutorials, videos and books I see more and more of on the internet. I’ve even seen other photographers denouncing hdr as though somehow it’s “cheating” or not worth the time and effort to learn. Yet as I’ve [...]

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The Lessons of Editing In Photography

April 19, 2009 Craft

Over the years I’ve had my fair (or as I see it unfair) share of failures, whether working in the music industry or photography. There probably isn’t a day that goes by when I’m in the field where I don’t fail at some point or another, often repeatedly. This is most evident in the editing [...]

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Fine Art Printing Resources

March 4, 2009 Photo Gear

I am often asked all sorts of questions about fine-art printing, and specifically about recommending papers, suppliers, and other good sources of information. I provide students in my printing workshops with a whole list of my favorites, but I thought I would post it here for everyone else. I’ve left printers off this list because [...]

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