Filed Under (Lightroom tutorials) by KerryG on April-21-2008

In this tutorial i show you have to take a product shot and make sure you have a perfect white background around it. This will make use of the new retouching tool in Lightroom 2.0 Public Beta.

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Filed Under (Product Reviews) by KerryG on April-19-2008

I am a big fan of doing interesting lighting techniques and have been playing around with using gels to create colored background effects. While using small gels can work pretty good, I have been looking for something that works better, isn’t as fragile, and basically was designed for the purpose. What I found was the Lumiquest FX kit. The FX is a complete colored filter system designed specifically to create colored lighting effects.

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Filed Under (Misc, Product Reviews, Shooting Tips) by KerryG on April-12-2008

For the most part I come home from a shoot and dump the images from the CF cards onto the computer and then do my backups. Once in a while I am gone for a weekend without the benefit of a laptop and I want to make sure I have my CF cards backed up every night. For this reason I picked up a Wolverine Flashpac several years ago and have been using it ever since. Since you should always make backups as soon as possible, I can’t recommend some type of device like this enough.

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Filed Under (Lightroom tutorials, Software) by KerryG on April-5-2008

This is our first video tutorial and we hope you like it, be sure and leave comments here or in the Flickr User Group and let us know if you want to see more of these. This one is on the new retouching tool that is in the new Lightroom 2.0 Public Beta. This tool allows you to “paint” effects like brightness, exposure, tint, saturation, and clarity into specific areas of an image. In this tutorial we lighten up the background, whiten up our model’s eyes and teeth, and make her lips redder.

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Filed Under (Misc) by KerryG on April-4-2008

Your’s truely was just a guest on the digital photography show podcast. Please stop by http://www.prophotoshow.net/ and download the podcast while myself, Gavin Siem, Michael Anderson, and Dennis Zerwas discuss the news, new products, Lightroom 2.0, and discuss issues like marketing, insurance, new cameras, and a bunch of other randomness. If you don’t listen to the podcast, you really should.



Filed Under (News) by KerryG on April-2-2008

lightroom2.pngAdobe has unleashed a beta version of Lightroom 2.0. If you are doing any amount of photo work then you should be using Lightroom. This new version adds some long await tools such as a painting tool that allows you to paint exposure, brightness, clarity, tint, and saturation. A highly anticipated post-crop vignette tool is also a very welcome touch.

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Filed Under (Lighting Tips) by KerryG on March-30-2008

img_0014.jpgToday is one of those days that I wanted to take a step back to some basics again. This time I want to talk about the three primary properties of light, and since what we are doing as photographers is recording light, it is important to know how these properties play into getting a good image. While I had studied this before, attending a recent seminar from Ed Pierce made me realize that many reader may never have seen these concepts before.

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Filed Under (News) by KerryG on March-17-2008

The Lightroom 1.4 update for Mac and Windows has been temporarily removed from the Adobe.com web site.  Those Lightroom users who have installed Lightroom 1.4 should uninstall the update and install Lightroom 1.3.1.(Mac, Win) until a further update can be provided. For those not in immediate need of the updated camera support available in Camera Raw 4.4 or the DNG 4.4 Converter, it’s recommended that you also continue working with the 4.3.1 versions. (Mac, Win)  This decision is based on the following errors that have been discovered with the recent update:

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Filed Under (News) by KerryG on March-14-2008

The Lightroom 1.4 and Camera Raw 4.4 updates have been posted to the following locations: Lightroom(Mac, Win), Camera Raw(Mac, Win).  The updates include support for the following new camera models:

Canon EOS 450D (Digital Rebel XSi/EOS Kiss X2)
Fujifilm S100FS
Nikon D60
Olympus SP-570 UZ
Pentax K20D
Pentax K200D
Sony A200
Sony A300
Sony A350

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Filed Under (Product Reviews) by KerryG on March-11-2008

3g.jpgFor a lot of people, getting into photography is all about creativity and imagination while trying to find unique ways to express yourself. However, take a look through Flickr and most pictures are boring and bland. One of digital’s greatest strengths is that it’s simple, fast, easy, automatic, and doesn’t require much thought or effort to take a picture with a modern DSLR. While those are digital’s greatest strengths, it is also its biggest weakness. When something is too easy to do, the quality of the end result can often suffer. In this article we are going to take a look at the Lensbaby 3G. Not only does it add a very unique effect to your images, it also makes you slow down and really think about the image you are making. Because of its design, it also makes using your camera a much more interactive process. So let’s get into it and see what the Lensbaby 3G is all about.

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