Apr
27
Woohoo! Another post, and another freebee from MHP! This time, I’m featuring an action I use ALL THE TIME. For SO many portraits, the ‘Powder Puff’ action I created is invaluable, yet so simple to create and use. In this post I’ll show how to use mine – and provide a free download to it [...]
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Feb
16
Good corporate head shots are a necessity for many companies to connect with their current and potential clients through their website. Images of key staff people give a personal connection to the company and enhance trust by putting a face with a name, or a voice on the phone. Traditionally, a photographer would arrive at [...]
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Jan
27
Lightroom4 Preset: “Country Sun” In my continuing desire to share my trials and triumphs in photography and the digital darkroom, I bring another in a collection of Lightroom Presets. Now, I will never just throw out a bunch of presets for you to buy or download. There are literally hundreds of other sites out there [...]
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Oct
04
I’ve decided to start sharing some of the Lightroom presets that I use to create some of what I call ‘more stylized’ images. I recently shared a few on my Facebook page, but it’s difficult to link to or talk about Presets and Actions on Facebook, not to mention as time goes on, those topics [...]
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Jul
23
What is ‘White Balance’? Simply put, White Balance (WB) is the color of light. All light is measured, by your camera and the experts, as a temperature, measured in Kelvin (K). Essentially, it’s the amount and the color of light visible to the naked eye. Our eyes are very good at judging what is white [...]
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08
Facebook. For many, it is the bane of their existence. For many businesses, especially photographers like me, a necessary evil. For years, photographs posted on Facebook lost much of their lustre and clarity, undergoing some brutal unknown compression to shrink the file size to a manageable size for storage and web loading. This is completely [...]
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