May 1st, 2012
I love the idea of giving my clients not just a PHYSICAL album, but one that they can also enjoy and take with them on their mobile devices (hello marketing!)
There are tons of different directions you could go with …
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February 29th, 2012
Monday Adobe announced the availability of it’s Photoshop Touch App for iPad!
Adobe’s marketing materials state: “The new Adobe® Photoshop® Touch app lets you quickly combine images, apply professional effects, share the results with friends and family through social networking …
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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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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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June 22nd, 2011
In my first collection that includes an album, I use the Finao Self mount (Eements) albums:
Self mount just means that you order the prints from your own lab and then mount them in the album via peel and …
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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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April 22nd, 2011
There’s been a big buzz lately on photography forums about this new OnOne software called “Perfect Layers.” Right now it’s in Free public Beta, but they plan on releasing it with a $160 price tag. From the marketing …
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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:




Let me …
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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 post processing …
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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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