Archive for News

Let Me Light the Way

November 3, 2009 4 Comments

It’s kind of funny how things go in circles.  As a regular reader of the Strobist website (as I am sure many of you are), I found it interesting that David was covering the RayFlash from ExpoImaging and comparing it to other styles of ringflahses over the last couple of days.  The reason for my ...

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November News

November 2, 2009 3 Comments

Another month goes into the archives as we enter November for 2009.  Here at the CB/LDP headquarters though, that means it’s announcement time for a couple of things, not the least of which is the latest contest news, the October newsletter, and something new for blog readers only!  Let’s start with the contest news: Fellow ...

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That’s why they call it a “Beta” (or RTFM)

October 27, 2009 8 Comments

The latest buzz to hit the photography world has been a trinity of buzz and hype.  First, Canon announced the 1D Mark IV, then, on the heels of that, Adobe announced the release of Lightroom 3 in Beta form.  To round things out, Lensbaby came out with a couple new optical shift lenses to appeal ...

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Hardware Review: The Nifty 50 from Sigma

October 26, 2009 5 Comments

After a couple weeks there of some touch-and-go blogging, rest assured, things are back into high gear this week.  Today the trusty hardware review returns, and regular content is on the horizons for sure.  Thanks for all the patience of those who have stuck around during some down time.  Today, we’ll be taking at the ...

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It’s all fun and games until…

October 19, 2009 1 Comment

It’s all fun and games until you actually are working with photography – after a family photo shoot on Friday evening, Saturday morning, then two more on Sunday (Christmas/holiday seasonal portrait work is underway), on top of the regular full time IT job, I got my first taste of a 7 day work week in ...

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Think Negative – not Positive

October 15, 2009 3 Comments

Sounds odd doesn’t it?  Yet believe it or not, the use of something called negative space can be very powerful in photography.  But what is negative space?  The term is kind of hard to describe in words, but the best way I can think of to describe negative space is the space that has nothing, ...

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What makes you a professional?

Photography has become a huge industry, within a very short period of time relative to the presence of the...

Must Read – Rangefinder Magazine

We all have our periodicals that we subscribe to, and while differences of opinion abound about which ones are...

A Primer on Licensing Your Work

With so many people likely covering the CS5 launch event later today (http://cs5launch.adobe.com/), I thought I’d take a different...

Trade show transitions…

In the most recent podcast Erik and I talked about several upcoming trade shows, including PMA, WPPI, PSW, and...

How To Make Your Pictures Sing!

While recently listening to This Week in Tech (a great podcast, and I highly recommend it), the show host,...