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The Workshop Tour Takes Off!

After extensive preparations, logistical planning and coordination, it is very exciting to finally announce the often teased and hinted at Learning Lightroom 3 Workshop Tour! Kerry Garrison and I have pooled our collective resources and we’ll both be at all the classes!  We’ve got an initial launch in six cities, with dates and locales already in place at: Sunday Aug 1st – Anaheim, Ca [Register Now] Saturday Aug 14th – Phoenix, Az [Register Now] Saturday Aug 28th – Denver, Co [Register Now] Saturday Sep 11th – Minneapolis, Mn [Register Now] Saturday Sep 25th – Seattle, Wa [Register Now] Sunday Sep … Continue reading

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Lightroom 3 is here – Now What?

With all the hubbub of the release of Lightroom 3 and all the resources that cropped up online in mere minutes of the announcement, we often find ourselves asking more questions once the excitement and energy that surrounds a product release has drained. I took these questions with me to a conversation with Senior Product Manager Tom Hogarty last week, and got a lot of insights and answers, with both a technical perspective and that of long-term development.  I give you this week’s podcast: Canon Blogger Podcast Series  AudioPlayer.embed(“pod_audio_1″, {soundFile: “http%3A%2F%2Fwww.canonblogger.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Faudio%2FLDP17.mp3″}); Canon Blogger Podcast Series

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The Photographer’s Workout

You’d think with toting camera bags chock full of bodies, lenses, field drives, lighting equipment, filters, tripods, monopods, and batteries would be enough to give anyone a workout who carries it all day.  It is a lot of stuff to carry, and you can certainly accredit some cardio to this activity, but there’s other ways to work out as a photographer.  Today, I give you: 5 Photography Exercises

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A New Look…

For those of you coming to the blog via feeds, this is something you’re gonna have to come to the site to see, but the re-launching of the site is ready!  After design, development, and testing over the past two months, we are now live and ready to surge forward! Special thanks and major kudos to Erik Bernskiold of XLD Studios for all his talents and patience with me in both seeing my vision for the blog and website, and for pulling it off almost to a T – and ahead of schedule to boot!  For those interested in web … Continue reading

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Lexar Pro 300X CF Cards – Giveaway and Review

Got the need for speed?  These new Lexar cards are just insanely fast.  I got a few of these recently to give away on the LDP contest series over on Flickr (which is underway now by the way).  It was actually a set of three, but a review was in order, so one of the three got opened for testing. With a box labeled 45 MB/sec, I was pretty surprised – my camera (at it’s best, can capture about 12 MB of data in a raw plus jpg setup (technically 13.5, but let’s average this out).  So, with a max … Continue reading

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