Long Exposures of 8 Minutes
By Rick Jacobi If you have water and or sky with clouds in a photo and want them to look really smooth, then you have to do a long exposure. Eight minutes works really well for this type of photo. I...
Adobe Lightroom – Using the New Range Mask Feature
By Megan P Galope Have you ever tried using a graduated filter to make the sky darker, but in the process it also darkens the mountains? Trying to then remove the mountains from the filter was a tedio...
RAW VS. JPG, ENHANCING COLOR
By Vicki Uthe I spent last spring break in Panama with my beautiful wife Ellen. I have nearly two thousand images to sort through and I hope you are as excited to see them as I am to share them. I’m...
THE NEW LIGHTROOM “ECO-SYSTEM”
By Suzanne Mathia LIGHTROOM CLASSIC – LIGHTROOM CC Lots of changes announced this week and confusion, worry and misinformation are rampant. This happens with any new changes. We all get very...
Has software eliminated the need for filters in the field?
By Becky Chapman When I started in photography, the in-camera exposure was one of the most critical aspects of the image. Now when I am out in the field shooting with other photographers, I hear “it...
How I Got the Shot – Poppies under the Blazing Arizona Sun
Author: Ambika Balasubramaniyan Settings: Camera: Canon 5DMIII Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f2.8 II USM Settings: Av (Aperture Priority)1/40 sec, f22, ISO 100, 16mm Filter: None Location: Bartlett Lake, Ari...
Rainy Day Photography
By Sara Goodnick If your vacation comes with a few days of rain, look at it as a creativity challenge to your photography! We often visit Hawaii in the winter and every few years we will get some rain...
Revisit Your Old Photos
Author Beth Ruggiero-York While culling images last week, I began to see potential in some of my older images that I had discounted long ago but never deleted. So I started looking at the old images w...
Fast and Easy Photo Editing using Snapseed
Author: Joanne Shipman For those quick gotta-post-this-shot for my friends and family, I turn to my iPhone as well as a practical but fun and intuitive photo editing application called Snapseed. Thi...
I have Lightroom and Photoshop – Why Do I Need Plug-ins?
Author: Joel Wolfson The title of this article poses an excellent question. If you aren’t familiar with plug-ins, they are mini imaging programs that work in conjunction with Photoshop, Lightroom,...