November 11th, 2011
A few weeks ago, I was reading an interesting thread on www.ilovephotography.com where one of the most respected members said that most photographers don’t use Lightroom for more than organization and basic fixes like White balance and exposure. In her…
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October 28th, 2011
How appropriate that the product is called Carousel, because my mind is “spinning” from the events of the last 48 hours. Honestly, I should have titled this post down the rabbit hole because that’s where it feels like…
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June 23rd, 2011
I do most of my initial edits in lightroom (basic exposure adjustment, white balance) and then any image I present to clients gets further polishing in Photoshop. That means that every file that I present will be a PSD file.…
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April 25th, 2011
This post will be partly about lens choices and partly about editing since I had a bunch of questions about both after I posted images of our Florida Trip!
First, the lenses. After debating a bit, I decided to…
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March 11th, 2011
This is a technique that I use with all of my baby or baby and parents on black. Even though the SOOC looks like this:

It’s just a few quick steps to get that clean pure black look:…
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February 21st, 2011
I received this question in my inbox from Kacey. With her permission, I’m posting it here in case this discussion helps anyone else!
I’ve been reading your tutorials about LR and PSE and I’ve found them so helpful! I have
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February 7th, 2011
If you were masochist enough to attempt reading my giant post about ImagingUSA, you will remember that I reported that die cut cards were EVERYWHERE now (not just Miller’s Luxe anymore!) which is great news for those of us…
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December 27th, 2010
I first learned this method of improving local contrast from Damien in a thread he posted on ILP. If you don’t already know about Damien’s blog, he’s got some really great posts and tutorials about everything from…
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December 4th, 2010
Sorry this came a few days after promised. I’ve been plagued with technical problems, from my desktop microphone failing to some bizarre issue where one part of the audio got unsynched from the video. That and the fact that I…
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December 1st, 2010
It’s day II of “Lightroom Week” on my blog. I’m celebrating the release (today!) of the LR3 plugin for my Wall Display Guides and as promised, here is my long awaited much procrastinated review/giveaway about Lightroom 3!…
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