8-Minute-Long Exposure
By Rick Jacobi Why would a person want to shoot an 8-Min-Long Exposure when you can shoot a 20 or 30 second exposure much easier? The answer is the effect of the water and or the sky in the photo. It ...
Adobe Premiere Rush CC – A fast, user-friendly tool for video creation
By Lisa Hanard With Premier Rush you can quickly turn your photos, videos and audio clips into an impressive video in minutes. Then share your video directly from the Premiere Rush app to the most com...
Lensbaby Velvet 56 and Flower Photography
By Sara Goodnick The Lensbaby Velvet 56 is now my go-to lens for flowers. It took some practice but it has been time well spent. About the Lens It’s completely manual. You will have to use your came...
How To Restore Old Photographs Using Adobe Photoshop Part 1 – COLOR AND CONTRAST
by Lisa Hanard Finding a dusty box of old family photos can feel like you just discovered a buried treasure. With anticipation, you carefully open the box lid to peek inside. Upon closer inspection ...
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...
Feel the Thunder
By Becky Chapman Summer in Arizona. Hot, painfully so at times. Every year I am amazed how hot it gets here. Yet every year, I am excited for summer. Why on Earth would one be excited about summer, yo...
Know your Equipment and Location
By David Halgrimson Since moving back to Minnesota I have been researching places to go for photo opportunities and found a couple near where I live. One is Swan Park in Monticello Minnesota 15 miles ...
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...
Bugs are Beautiful
Author: Bruce Taubert For whatever reason I have become obsessed with taking macro and micro photographs of bugs. Beetles, files, wasps, bees, stink bugs, moths, butterflies, and whatever other bu...
A Good Time to Switch to Manual–An Example
By Amy Novotny Knowing when to switch to manual mode can be difficult these days with digital SLR cameras making it easy to capture images in Aperture or Shutter priority modes. It is often taught to ...