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Today I shoot a 5DMKII at a whopping 21.1 Megapixels. Right after I switched from film to Digital, I bought a Canon 20D with (a whopping at that time) 8.2 MP. Now this newest camera has much better image quality and dynamic range than than older camera. But do you know what? I can’t just [...]
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Greetings Lightroom enthusiasts, On Monday, January 9th, 2012 at 9:00 PM Pacific Time, Adobe announced a public beta for the next major upgrade in its industry-leading photographic asset management software, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Here is a brief summary of what is new and what I find exciting about...
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This little [F2] saves me time again and again and again… Actions, scripts, macros, are all means by which you can execute complex or repetitive tasks quickly and easily for repeated recall. I have recorded, saved, and amassed these time savers for a variety of software packages including Photoshop...
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A shot like this doesn’t come along without some post processing help. Even with the best slide film of the day and ideal conditions a shot like this straight out of camera is difficult if not impossible to achieve. I thought for this edition of Behind the Shot, I would show some steps along...
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Greetings all. If you are in or near the San Francisco bay area between now and August 6th, stop in see the very cool Photoshop Pop-up store. Over the past few days we have had very cool workshops, photo shoots, photo walks, and print events by Canon and Universal. Most of my days are spent [....
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If you are passing through the San Francisco area, stop in at the Photoshop Store and say hello. I will be stationed there to help with your photography and Lightroom questions for the next two weeks. Maybe we will crop something or a whole lotta somethings? Details Here Rikk Flohr © 2011
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Programs to manage our images have a proliferation of tools with which we can rank, rate and identify our photographs. Sometimes it can be a little daunting keeping track of what the difference is in a 3-Star and a 4-Star image. What does a red label mean, a blue label, no label. I use Adobe Photoshop...
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Rick Altman, the conference host for the Presentation Summit wrote an editorial recently lamenting the lack of functionality in the iPad for use as a presentation driver. During the course of reviewing Rick’s article, I discovered an admittedly less significant use for the iPad as a presenter’s tool...
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When anyone asks me my favorite Draw feature, I say, without hesitation: The PowerClip. Zip over to the Holy Crop! blog and see what the Cropist has to say about the PowerClip tool as an image cropping godsend to the designing photographer. Rikk Flohr © 2011
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Time marches. Tools evolve. Technique improves. We shoot new images every day. Our skills as a photographer naturally evolve with time too. The images we capture get better as time passes. RAW Processing has evolved in the past few years. HDR software has evolved in the past few years. Theoretically...
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For those of us who have chosen to run a dual-environment on a Mac, Apple released Boot Camp 3.2 on November 18, 2010. This update is available for both the 32 bit and 64 bit Windows OS. It fixes a host of bugs including the dreaded Blue Screen of Death that sometimes occurs in the [...]
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With the end of Daylight Saving Time in the US, it is time to make certain your cameras-all of your cameras are set to the proper time. Plug all of your cameras into your computer and use the manufacturer’s utility to sync all of your cameras with your computer, with each other and with other [...]
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My blogging software of choice over the past several years has been Windows Live Writer which is part of the Windows Live Essentials software suite available free from Microsoft. Last week after a long hiatus, the Blog software got a much-needed upgrade. The interface is now in harmony with other Microsoft...
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There has been much written about essential iPad apps, even essential apps for photographers, but I wanted to approach the subject of what specifically there exists for the photographer who specializes in Landscapes. My criteria included apps which helped take the picture-not those which manipulate the...
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And a Featured Android App: Photo Studio Buddy This is a shot of my latest studio session featuring model Liz Manalo. Aside from an excellent model, some cool props and a good composition, the shot features some killer lighting. Knowing about the lighting setup is the key to getting behind the...
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