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Something I was recently told about and have been playing with lately are these Huelight Color Profiles from Color Fidelity (dot) com. The standard-issue profiles that come with Camera RAW are Camera Standard, Adobe Standard, Vivid, Landscape, Portrait, etc. but the Huelight profile will add...

Hit the beach for some shooting today since it's Veteran's Day and I have the day off work. ..... ..... Dude Radical, #1 ..... ..... ..... Dude Radical, #2 ..... ..... ..... Beach Patrol ..... ..... ..... Just Us Chickens ..... ..... ..... Surf Maiden .....

I just ran across a site that's new to me and has a lot of good video-courses (as opposed to single, stand alone videos) on subjects like digital photography, Photoshop and Lightroom. You'll need to surrender a name and an email address to access everything the site has to offer, but that's it...

Some daytime photos from our Labor Day weekend in Joshua Tree National Park. No words to describe how much we love this place... ..... ..... ..... Coastal Whiptail Lizard ..... ..... ..... Desert Bighorn Sheep ..... ..... ..... Oasis ..... ..... On the Trail, #1 ..... ...

Spent Labor Day weekend in Joshua Tree National Park and did some night photography for the first time in a loooong time. This first shot is my favorite... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....

I took some shots of a local ska band playing at the Pier View Pub a couple weeks ago by request and quickly discovered this whole "photography thing" can be HARRRD at times. Still, I thought I managed to do okay all things considered... Like the low-light and crowded atmosphere which changes...

I heard about this alleged (and admittedly, too-good-to-be-true-sounding) firmware update program I AM Advancing, on Nikon Rumors back in January of this year. Several month later I feel safe in assuming the "I AM Advancing" program has "advanced" right to the digital garbage heap? What a...

Lucky guy that I am, this beautiful young woman agreed to another photo shoot a couple weeks ago. You may remember Isabelle, who posed with my other photographic Muse Pearl, from Return to the Salton Sea, Models in Tow but this time Isabelle was on her own. Shooting portraits is a lot more...

Some shots from my weekend trip deep in the desert of Southern California. Nothing like hitting the back-country in a dune buggy at 45MPH to let you know you're alive! Thanks to our "pilot", Richard and his sidekick Billy, who was a wealth of information on the local history. Here are some of...

Am I crazy? Probably... But I do these things and then report the facts so you don't have to. Quite honestly I had this conversion done almost on a whim... Seriously. It just came over me one day after having a conversation with someone about it so I contacted the folks at Life Pixel (of IR...

Some shots from a shoot with Dominic, a student at the college where I work. You've probably seen him before in some of the shots I've take of the glassblowers we have on campus. Dominic has never modeled before but I thought he'd make a great subject and he foolishly agreed to accompany Jessica...

I recently visited family back in Kansas City and wound up rescuing dozens and dozens of old family photos from highly uncertain fates. I just love photos this old, the patina, the formality of the setting... No one else in the immediate family seemed interested in preserving these old photos so...

Has anybody here used Model Mayhem? I'm considering creating a profile but before I make the effort, I'm looking for feedback from those who have used the site; the good, the bad, the ugly. Thanks in advance.

"Lucy" is an older, but very vivacious, beagle that lives a few doors down and my services have been requested to do some photography of her and her person. This is a paid gig, I've not done pet photography before and I'm not really sure where to start learning how. I would appreciate any...

Well it's a "D" lens so you know it solid as a rock and hefty in the hand, even for it's diminutive size. Even so it feels like pocket change when compared to my big Sigma Art primes or my hulking Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 I lug around so much, so that took some getting used to. This little lens...

I just ran across this rather interesting bit of FREE software, Wire Worm. It's a plug-in for Photoshop and it's designed to do pretty much one thing: Remove things like power-lines and wire fences from your images. I haven't spent a *lot* of time with Wire Worm but it seems to do a pretty...

Putting out "feelers" to see if there are any fellow Nikonites in the Southern California area that might like to meet up for a day of shooting, General BS'ing and Canon Bashing (BS'ing and Canon Bashing optional). And by Southern California I mean really Southern as in "I'm in the San Diego...

I read a lot of photography books but I've never felt compelled to suggest one here like I am now... But then it's also an unfortunate rarity I come across a book on photography as good as this one: Picture Perfect Practice: A Self-Training Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Taking...

This is my Oddz & Endz thread. A place to put photos I want to share but don't make it to the Fishbowl-O-Rama thread. I have no idea what will show up here so you'll just have to keep coming back to find out. ... ... ... Nick ....

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