April 20, 2009 For a while now I’ve been meaning to devote some time to experimenting with HDR – specifically comparing Photomatix and Photoshop in their production of HDR photographs. The industry preference toward the former is there for a very good reason. Photomatix produces much better results. Just look at this final shot (be sure to click ...
Tags: HDR, News, photography, Photomatix, Photoshop, potdlearning, NAPP, News, photography, Photoshop, potd April 16, 2009 This week’s podcast episode should be available shortly over at Personal Life Media. You’ll want to listen when you really can dedicate the 25 minutes as it’s a pretty rapid fire show this week. A couple learning opportunities presented themselves to me recently and I wanted to share these before they got too fuzzy. ...
Tags: photography, planning, podcast, portrait, potd, promotionsphotography, podcast, potd April 15, 2009 As I was sorting through the CB archives for some content to update for todays post, it dawned on me that I blew right past post #400 without even a mention of thanks to anyone. So, at post #411 (see, I really blew right past it), let me take a moment to give some belated ...
Tags: News, personal, thanksAnnouncements, personal, technical, thoughts April 14, 2009 Remember the old game of password where you said a related word to one on your card to get your partner to guess it? Well, here goes: What do the words cactus, trigger, and zebra all have in common? If you answered “flash photography” you’d be right! As you may have realized, that does mean ...
Tags: 40D, 550 EX, Cactus, Flash, gear, Lighting, review, ST-E2, technical, test, trigger, zebraFlash, learning, Lighting, News, photography gear, Product Review, technical April 13, 2009 Okay, so it’s lame segue alert day, as our late return last night really didn’t give me time to get my act together for a post today (clearly as it’s already 6:30pm MDT). Thus, another NBP (no blog post) day is upon us. Hopefully by tomorrow my act will be together again and we’ll have ...
Tags: News, no blog, personalNews April 10, 2009 A short vacation means that I’ve not had much time to generate any photo-related content, but hopefully the title will be a hint of things to come, so be sure to stop back in Monday for some photo goodness and other news and events. In the meantime, enjoy the weekend, and have a Happy Easter. ...
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