Monthly Archives: March 2016

How to Add Vintage Frame Overlays Using Alien Skin Exposure X

Here is a quick and snazzy tip on adding some cool retro and vintage frame overlays to your photographs, including polaroids and borders, using Alien Skin Exposure X. It’s easy as pie, and takes seconds! Unlike Photoshop, adding frames in … Continue reading

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Here’s a Nice Video Reminder Of Just How Awesome Ansel Adams Truly Was

How To He was truly the master Ansel Adams was a truly amazing photographer and we could all stand to remember how he worked Popular Photography

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LensCoat RainCoat Rain Sleeve (Large) – $39.95 Shipped (Reg. $69.95)

B&H has the LensCoat RainCoat Rain Sleeve (Large, Black) available for $ 39.95 with free shipping. Regularly $ 69.95. Product Highlights  For Camera/Lens Combination up to 21″ Protects Gear From Rain, Snow,Salt Spray Rear Access to Camera Controls Lens Access Via … Continue reading

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B&H Explora: 4K Post Production Hardware

With 4K steadily gaining traction, you might wonder what kind of computer hardware you may need to render and edit the higher resolution video and which upgrades will likely be of most benefit. If so, B&H has an Explora post … Continue reading

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How CNN’s Bill Weir Is Integrating Travel Photography to Tell Stories on ‘The Wonder List’

News A long-time broadcast journalist mixes travel photography with traditional TV Bill Weir mixes travel photography and documentary TV for his CNN TV show, The Wonder List Popular Photography

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Run, Baby, Run: A 3D Printed Stop Motion Photography Short

Professional and amateur photographers alike use stop motion photography to tell incredible stories with the use of the objects (and sometimes even the people) around them. This incredibly delicate technique involves carefully positioning everything in a frame, then altering the … Continue reading

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Writer’s Favorite Lens – the Canon 400mm f/2.8

Being a sports photographer, covering things ranging from soccer (football) and rugby, to horse racing, I often have the Canon 400mm f/2.8L IS II USM on one of my camera bodies. It’s this lens’ focal length and fast aperture that is … Continue reading

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DPP v.4.4.0 & EOS Utility Updates Now Available… But there’s a Catch

With the EOS 80D soon to be hitting doorsteps across the country, we expected that a new version of Digital Photo Professional and EOS Utility would be released with added support for the new DSLR. Unsurprisingly, we were right. What was … Continue reading

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Tips for Shooting Through Objects to Create a Special Effect

Photography is as much a study of the creative, as it is a study of the technical. Often, knowing all the technical ins and outs of your camera, still does not guarantee a stellar image – an image that evokes … Continue reading

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Adobe Introduces Technology Previews and Search in Lightroom on the Web

From Adobe: Lightroom on the web makes it possible for you to access all of your Lightroom images from nearly any computer around the world, and today we’re announcing the addition of Technology Previews, a series of features that will let … Continue reading

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#CreativeFriday – Lightroom Web – Technology Preview – Search

Lightroom web is a great way to see and work with your images when you are near a browser, be it on the phone or on an iPad/tablet device. Technology previews are now available in Lightroom web, the first one … Continue reading

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Landscape Is a Free Web Service That Sizes Photos For Any Social Media Channel

News It supports Photoshop, Twitter, Instagram, and others Sprout Social has introduced a new web-based tool that sizes photos specifically for social media channels like Facbeook, Twitter, and Instagram Popular Photography

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