Archive for June, 2009

Let me count the ways…

June 30, 2009 5 Comments

The age old phrase of “let me count the ways” seemed like as good a theme as any to announce the newest contest from the blog here for the Learning Digital Photography podcast.  I just got word from the folks at OnOne software that they really liked the post on Genuine Fractals – so much ...

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Wacom Bamboo Fun: Hardware Review

June 29, 2009 12 Comments

The good folks at Wacom were kind enough to donate a Bamboo Fun to me for review on the blog a while back.  In order to really get a full handle on it though, I wanted to use it within the context of my at-home work flow.  You see, I’m not a newcomer to tablets, ...

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Painting with Light

June 26, 2009 5 Comments

About a year ago, Joe McNally gave a talk at Google where he referenced the roots of the word photography.  The two roots are photo and graphos, and the meanings are light and write.  We so often hear of people “painting with light”, and after seeing a few people demonstrating how they use flashlights to ...

Tags: , , Lighting, photography, potd

And the winner is…

June 25, 2009 4 Comments

Blooming Orchid, by photographer John Dunne, of Ireland.  He’s got quite a nice portfolio of images too over on his Flickr photostream, so do stop over and give him a little kudos, pat on the back, congratulations, etc. as he’s won the Adobe Lightroom Contest here at Learning Digital Photography!  His winning image (surprise surprise) ...

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And then there were three…

June 24, 2009 5 Comments

First off, some software news that we all may want to stay abreast of – Adobe has released the latest updates for Camera Raw and Adobe Lightroom. The ACR update applies to CS4 users, Elements 7.0 users, and Premiere Elements 7.0 users, and includes raw conversion algorithms for the Canon 500D, the Powershot XS1 IS, ...

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Software Review – Genuine Fractals 6.0

June 23, 2009 4 Comments

Don’t get too excited – no software giveaway on this one folks, as I’ve not had a chance to call OnOne yet and see if they’d be interested in participating in a contest.  Instead, I am working off a trial version of one of the premiere up-sizing software programs on the market – Genuine Fractals ...

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