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I guess my friend wasn't just being nice when he told me how much he liked the product shots I did for him, because he emailed me today and asked if I'd be willing to fly to Vegas with him and do shots of business execs against a green screen for him to use in materials for a sales kick-off...

I'm trying to play with the beta version of onOne Software's Perfect Photo Suite 8 as much as possible before the trial runs out at the end of the month, so for giggles today I sent an image that had no people in it into Perfect Portrait, which is designed to easily correct certain problem areas...

I'm a little perturbed that the 70-200mm doesn't include the $169 tripod collar Nikon has for it, but at the same time it's light enough that I doubt I would have it on a lot. That said, shooting the eclipse yesterday was one of those times when I wondered if it would have been a little better...

It was a cloudy, cold morning in NJ, but I gave it a shot anyway. I grabbed a spot at the top of a hill in our local cemetery and was joined by another photographer about 10 minutes later. We weren't too optimistic, but there was a crack in the heavy cloud bank right in line with the...

I'm not a big fan of canned filters, but I've developed patterns in my use of the Nik tools and have started refining some presets I've stored, particularly in Color Efex Pro, as starting points for certain types of shots. Now, with Analog Efex Pro I can see that it is going to be really handy...

For those of us on the East Coast USA, or in large swaths of other parts of the world, there is a solar eclipse occurring on Sunday. For folks on the East Coast we will only get part of it, but it's worth seeing nonetheless. My plan is to try and photograph it provided the weather and the...

I sat through a demo of Perfect Photo Suite 7 while at a Kelby seminar. I was already a Nik Collection user at the time and found myself comparing the two products at every turn and not necessarily paying attention to everything it does. The things that stood out to me were the Resize tool...

So, Nikon Rumors and Photography Life have been buzzing on and off for the last couple weeks about the "Retro" bodied DF that's supposedly being announced next week. Seems like it will be part D4 and part D600/610, with no video capability and an FM2 styled body in black or the classic silver &...

I just finished editing the batch of product shots I took for my friend's website. I think they came out pretty good, particularly given some of the hurdles I had to overcome. I had to spend a lot of time in post to overcome the white sheet I used as a backdrop. I was hoping that I'd be able...

I need to shoot a composite scene with 3 copies of the same book, one with a cover shot, and two open to specific pages within the book. My problem is that they books are essentially new samples and will not stay open on their own, and I've been asked to try and do it without creasing them open...

I'm finishing up my first set of product shots for my buddy's business (I'll post what I can elsewhere when I'm done) and was wondering how I should handle the photo metadata on the shots I hand over? The photographer data will obviously stay intact, but I'm assuming copyright belongs either to...

After using my Rokinon 8mm this past weekend I'm longing for something like that for my D600 without losing all the MP's on a DX crop. It seems that the Sigma 15mm and the Nikon 16mm Fisheyes are my only option. Each claim "180 degree view on the diagonal", which I understand (bottom right to...

Take a look at this image. It's two screen shots of an image being edited in Photoshop. The top half shows my problem - Photoshop is blacking out part of the image (bottom right corner). If I do a 100% zoom, as shown in the bottom half, the missing corner appears, but as soon as I zoom out...

Spend the better part of 3 hours exploring this place with my brother of Friday. Outside of the bathroom, I was surprised how uncreepy the place was - that is until my brother shouted up from the basement, "There's a couple freezers down here. One of them is closed - should I open it? I'm...

As I mentioned a while back, a friend of mine asked if I'd be willing to do some photos of some of the work his graphic arts company has done as a part of their website revision since his regular studio guy was booked solid through the new year. I've been wanting to learn how to do this stuff...

I got a Vello Freewave Fusion remote flash trigger this week. Works great. The thing I didn't realize when I bought it is that it can also be used as remote shutter release, which is pretty cool if you don't need to use the two things at the same time. So, why is this a problem? Had I known...

I came across these on a photo blog a while back, and the discussion of classic pin-up styles in another thread made me wonder if they were ever discussed here. I did a search and came up with nothing, so here you go. Best I can get from the various blog posts he has on the subject is that...

I've been trading some emails with my brother about the IR color scheme that exists on my photos from the Photowalk. I'd worked with him on getting a more cyan/yellow scheme, but as I processed the photos they seemed to shift. He built me a camera profile like the ones you'd use in Camera Raw...

I have a minty fresh copy of this that I got when I bought my D7000 along with Darrell Young's D7000 guide. This is essentially a more in depth and readable version of the manual, plus its spiral bound laminated cover and glossy pages make it a little less destructable. These run $10 new on...

Got an email at 8AM from Google with a resolution to the issue I was having with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2. They stated 1-2 business days to get back to me, so I was rather thrilled to get something so quickly (I was going to call after 9). It seems that the software download link they sent out to...