If you’re a user of Lightroom, you’re probably aware that there are—confusingly—two products called Lightroom: That said, just because there are two different Lightrooms, it doesn’t mean that you can’t configure them to play somewhat-nicely with each other. The solution for this is Lightroom’s sync capabilities. Lightroom supports sync between...
Technique/Workflow
Preparing to meet one’s maker
In my last post, wherein I outlined how I added a link to each photo’s location on Google Maps, I mentioned that I thought I’d done a writeup on how I geo-tag photos, but couldn’t find it. After extensive searching of the archives, I can confirm that I don’t seem...
Using services like Pixsy, TinEye or Google Image Search (built into Chrome!) to find where your images are being used without your permission is a “fun” way to spend some time (and anger you at the same time!). But there’s a special kind of image thief that annoys me to...
Our Meetup.Com group, Dallas Photo Walk (a great photography group and if you’re in the Dallas area, we’d love to have you join), had a scavenger hunt photo walk in Downtown Plano, Texas, this morning. For the last couple of years, I’ve been trying to log my photo explorations on my...
So, I’ve been contemplating a buying a new lens, but I couldn’t decide on what focal length I needed. Did I want 11-16? 24-70? 24-105? 100-400? 600? I could make arguments for any of these, but I was still indecisive. So, I decided to see what focal lengths I have...
A while back, I posted this video to Youtube: Earlier tonight, a user on Reddit asked how to do this very thing for a TV production he was working on. I obliged him by doing a quick write-up of the process; after which, I decided to share here as well:...
A lot of people are confused when it comes to RAW vs. JPG, so I just wanted to show you a quick before/after of what kind of dynamic range you can get out of RAW. The before is what it looked like out of the camera, while the after is...
Sometimes (by which I mean, honestly, “a lot of times”), I second-guess the photo I’ve chosen for a particular day on the photoblog. I usually post the next day’s photo the night before, queuing up several days if I’m going to be busy or out of town, choosing a photo...