Archive for August, 2009

Filling the Frame: Flowers, Faces, & Fixtures

August 5, 2009 5 Comments

Rules of Composition are all around us, and we are reminded of them all the time.  Terms like Rule of Thirds are bandied about by everyone (including yours truly, having blogged about it myself here, here and here).  Other terms and compositional “best practices” and rules of thumb include things like “The Golden Mean”, “Sunny ...

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Exposure Denver Presentation

August 4, 2009 2 Comments

Tomorrow I will be speaking at a local photo club’s monthly meeting – Exposure Denver.  It’s quite an honor and my first time presenting in any way so we’ll see how it goes.  I’m sure the photogs there will have tons of questions I have absolutely no clue on what the answers are, but I ...

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Canon 550EX Review/Eulogy

August 3, 2009 3 Comments

Hardware Review/Eulogy – The Canon 550 EX Ah, how I loved thee, the Canon 550 EX, with your 3 flash modes, ETTL, Manual and Multi mode.  You were especially wonderful because of how well the ETTL worked in conjunction with the Canon bodies.  Your typical standard hotshoe fit every Canon SLR from the first days ...

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Contest News

August 2, 2009 7 Comments

As you all are likely aware, the July Contest to win a free copy of the superbly powerful OnOne Software Plugin Suite is now closed for entries.  The next week or so will be spent poring over the entries and determining the finalists as well as the grand prize winner. It is somewhat disappointing though ...

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Getting Started in Macro Photography

Guest post by Joe Farace The classic definition of macro photography is that the image projected onto the digital...

What is zoom?

A great question came up in my Twitter feed recently, and felt it was worthy of putting together a...

Is Photoshop Touch for Photos?

As promised, today I am going to take a closer look at Photoshop Touch from the folks at Adobe....

LDP #68: Lightroom 4 – Can There Be More?

When Lightroom 4 hit the virtual bookshelves a couple weeks ago, there was quite a bit of buzz in...

First Looks…that’s plural!

There’s been a lot of screaming press lately in the camera industry, and in typical fashion I am a...