Dealing With Dust: Cleaning Your Gear
We’ve all had to deal with it, dust spots in images. The more stopped down the lens is and uniform the scene is in texture the more of a problem it is. The way I see it, dealing with dust is a three-part process. Cleaning the camera and sensor, minimizing the dust that can get […]
Focus Mask, the New Blinkies: Phase One seems to think so.
Phase One brings 3 new medium format backs to market with innovative multi-touch controls, crazy high resolution, but more importantly an innovative way for photographers to quickly review where focus is placed in images—a feature every camera should have.
Flash, Photography, and Copyright Infringement
I’m not sure what the attraction to Adobe’s Flash is with photography sites. It’s not the most useable, accessible or even necessarily the best technology. Flash can easily hamper usability, and become a security and privacy nightmare for users, isn’t indexed by search engines, and on top of all of that simply isn’t supported or […]
Fixing Frozen Wacom Tablets in Windows
For about as long as I’ve been using Wacom tablets, I’ve encountered a rather rare phenomena where my tablet (which I also use as my mouse) will crash and burn causing my mouse to freeze. Other than this occurring in both Lightroom (2 and now 3) and Photoshop, and with both the pen and mouse, […]
Behind Blowing Rocks HDR
I don’t shoot a lot of HDR images, nor am I a big fan of them. However, when they are done well they can add that extra dimension to an otherwise uncaptureable photograph. Here I take a look at what I did to get that in my Blowing Rocks HDR.
Project Popcorn: Post Processing Part One
Part one of two covering the post production processing I did on my Porject popcorn poster. Including, blending images in Photoshop to address Depth of Field shortcomings and tweaking the image in Lightroom to add punch.
Popcorn Poster: Shooting the Image
In this article, I’ll walk though how I took the concept sketch and turned it into a properly lit photography.
Custom White Balances: Why Not to Use Printer Paper
When creating a custom white balance, it may be tempting to use any sheet of white paper as the target. Find out why this doesn’t work as well as you might expect.
Adventures in Color Calibration
I just finished up helping a fellow photographer and friend setup and calibrate his new Dell 2407WFP LCD display and yet again I am reminded how much I really hate dealing with color and color profiling. What settings should you use to calibrate your display? In Michael Reichmann’s From Camera to Print, Jeff Schewe comments […]
Canon PowerShot G10 Review
PowerShots are Canon’s line of compact cameras, the G10 being one of the “prosumer” level offering features and ergonomics that would make a good compact camera for a pro photographer.