Archive for Product Review

speech recognition review

December 23, 2009 1 Comment

With time becoming and ever-increasing commodity, the ability to utilize speech recognition software has both benefits and disadvantages.  And in the interests of sharing my initial experiences with speech recognition software here on the blog, today’s post comes to you courtesy of and open-sourced software application called “E-speaking”.  On the initial install, I decided to ...

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Video Hosting Services Review

December 22, 2009 7 Comments

With the increasing popularity and discussion of video (we are always hearing about the convergence of photography and videography), I thought it might be interesting to take a look at the different video hosting services, and look at their functionality. So, earlier today I recorded a video using Quicktime Pro on the Mac, and tried ...

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Flickr Plugin for Lightroom

December 15, 2009 4 Comments

While recently participating in a Photowalk group outing to Rocky Mountain National Park, with the fellow local photogs, I learned about this great little plugin for Lightroom that allows you to export your photos directly to Flickr…all within Lightroom!  It’s a pretty cool little plugin, and as you know, when I learn something new – ...

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Software Review: Apple iPhoto

November 17, 2009 3 Comments

As much as we glow and sing the praises of Photoshop and Lightroom, native photo editors that are included in Operating Systems are often overlooked as alternatives for photo editing and management.  This is primarily because… well, let’s face it, because they are not very good at photo editing…or management.  But think about what we ...

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Hardware Review: Western Digital Passport Drive

November 16, 2009 3 Comments

For those of you on Twitter (and following me), you know that over the weekend, my iPhoto library on the Mac was either corrupted, or somehow compromised in its integrity, because when I went to add in a few snapshots to it for sharing with the Twitter-verse, it crashed on me.  Believe it or not, ...

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Useful Resource

November 10, 2009 33 Comments

In the interests of giving people enough time to participate, here is the awaited review of Scott Kelby’s Digital Photography Book, Volume 3.  To be eligible to win this book, simply comment on this post – you have until Friday to make a comment – the winner will be announced then.  One entry only per ...

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Sunrise, sunset…Getting the Shot

Nothing says sunset like a photograph of the “sun setting slowing in the West” and this image of the...

Taking Better Portraits

I've done a number of tutorials here on the website, and portraiture has been touched on from time to...

Presentation is Key…

How many times have you had a great photo that you wanted to print, frame, and hang, or export,...

New Cameras: Canon vs Nikon Showdown!

It's finally here - a showdown between Canon and Nikon, right here! I've said in the past that...

Getting Started in Landscape Photography

Guest post by Joe Farace I’m not a serious landscape or nature photographer but I do enjoy making these...