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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 &...

Better? It was a very tough one to light, particularly given that my fill-in flash was starting to die and the stupid photographer packed the wrong size spare batteries. :o

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...

Entry #2 (Something about this contest freaking me out - when I went to upload this photo it listed it at 666KB)

I reserve the right to change my mind, because I even creeped myself out on this one. Entry 1 - Eternal Rest

Single image tone mapping can be very useful with some shots. Here's a single frame from an HDR series I shot last week. As you can see in the out of camera photo for the '0' exposure (metered correctly) you've got washout on the back wall and dark shadows elsewhere - a nightmare and not...

OK, a picture is worth 1000 words, right... Here are the 4 widest angle lenses in the Sigma line from the photo I was referencing. Ignoring the circle fisheye, if you compare the 15mm Fisheye, 12mm and 17mm you can clearly see that the 15mm Fisheye with "180 degree view" is barely wider than...

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...

I subscribe to the Improve Photography blog and was reading through their 21 Best "Do It Today" Photo Ideas email that I got over the weekend. When I came to #5 Create A "Small World" Photo I recognized an image similar to what I got from the Tiny World app on my iPhone, so I figured why not...

Yes, the 16-35 at about 1/2 way (26mm), so I suppose I could have gotten the same look with the 24-85mm. Or could I?! LOL Processing was a little convoluted. I took the original color photo, already postprocessed in Photoshop and Nik's Viveza 2 and Color Efex Pro 4, and subsequently...

Ideally, in a test like this shouldn't all 4 rows look closer to the one on the bottom when desaturated?

Oh well, and here I was hoping to find a reason for the way my wardrobe looks. LOL I found that it was more difficult if you kept all 4 color bands visible while sorting. I scrolled up so that the one I was working on was at the top of the window. And I agree, a good monitor (I'm on a...

Here's a quick shot I did before the CD set that exhibited the same issues (as you can see, light was stronger from the right at this point and I hadn't gotten the bounce flash set properly). I quickly masked, balanced and desaturated the background to remove the color cast. And in the process...

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...