New Features in Photoshop CS6

Check out this 1-hour video about some of the new features in Adobe Photoshop CS6.
"I'm loving the new features and layout. Makes photo editing fun again..." Michael - Positive Image Blog

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Virtual Lighting Studio

Try your hand at lighting a virtual model in this Virtual Lighting Studio.

Nik Software - Education Blog & Videos

Enhancing the Travel Image with Janice Wendt

By Janice Wendt - Nik Software | On May 15, 2012 | No Comments

Follow along as Janice Wendt, Nik Software’s trainer to the trainers, teaches you how to quickly and easily enhance travel images with timesaving techniques using a variety of Nik Software tools using Photoshop. This webinar will feature a variety of travel images and teach you how to effectively enhance buildings, skies, landscapes and more.
Click here to watch this webinar… http://education.niksoftware.com/

Turn Your iPad into a Wireless Monitor for Dual Displays

Ever wish you had an extra display for your computer? There’s an app for that! With Air Display, you can use your iPhone, iPad or Mac as a wireless display for your Mac OS X or Windows computer.

more info: http://avatron.com/apps/air-display

Triggertrap Mobile - iPhone Remote camera trigger

Triggertrap enables you to use your iPhone/iPod/iPad to trigger a camera based on lots of different things, by using the built-in sensors on your iOS device. For many of the triggering modes, you can use the camera built into your phone, but if you want the full Triggertrap experience, hook it up to your SLR camera!

click the link for more info: https://triggertrap.com/products/triggertrap-mobile/

You break it, you bought it!!!

Clumsy Photographer breaks ancient African sculpture

A Manhattan art collector says a photographer snapping pictures of her 2,630-year-old sculpture for an art magazine carelessly smashed the rare piece to bits during the photo shoot — and now she wants the publishers to pay $300,000.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/art_breaking_imo1lyGL5zNsGJ8CWTgBjN#ixzz1v3ne4jxL

645 Pro - iPhone App

 645 PRO—it feels like a pro camera. Because it is one

645 PRO has been designed, from the ground up, for professional and serious amateur photographers. So it works the way a camera works, not some piece of computer software.
Every setting is managed directly from the camera—no layers of menus to negotiate. You have instant access to everything that can be controlled, from focus/exposure and white balance locking to a 645 PRO-exclusive choice between spot and multi-zone metering.
And you have all the information you need, all the time, including a real-time ISO and shutter-speed reading and even a live histogram!

For more info or to get the iPhone App, follow this link... http://jag.gr/645/

Death Valley Photography Trip / part 1

My son and I went to Death Valley about a week ago to take photos and explore some of the unique sites in that area.

Day 1. We started at the small ghost town of Ballarat. There we photographed the town cemetary, jail house, and a building built of earth and rocks.

 

Next, we headed to the "Wildrose Charcoal Kilns" where we camped out for the night.

Geotaging Photos

The video above by "Terry White" shows how to add satellite location to your photos when using a camera without a built in GPS.

Below is the iPhone and Android app used to create the .gpx files to import into Lightroom for adding GPS coordinates and features to photos.

Geotag Photos Pro

P.S. You don't have to sign up with Geotagphotos.net to use this app. You have the option in the app to email the .gpx files to yourself or download them through the iTunes software.

Wacom Intuos 5 Multi-Touch Graphics Tablet

For the ultimate in control of photo editing, retouching, restoration and graphic design, there's no beating a graphics tablet. I've tried and compared a few different ones back in the day and found (in my opinion) that Wacom makes the best in the business. I use one daily and it appears that with Wacoms latest release that they are only getting better.

Apple's New iPad release

Apple annouced the release of the new iPad today at the Yerba Buena Centeer for the Arts in San Francisco, California.

The New iPad is available for pre-order home delivery or in Apple Stores in March 16, 2012 starting at $499

The iPad 2 has a new lower price starting at $399.

Here's a list of the updates/changes between the iPad 2 and the New iPad........

Adobe announces Lightroom 4 release

Adobe announced the release of Photoshop Lightroom 4 yesterday.

Lightroom 4 is now out of public beta and shipping! As usual besides fixing bugs the Lightroom team got in some additional features/enhancements in the shipping version!:

Arizona, Utah and Nevada photo shoot

Upper Antelope Canyon

This past weekend I had the pleasure to go to Arizona, Utah and Nevada to shoot some photos for my stock collection. I started with the slot canyons of the "Upper Antelope Canyons" in Page, Arizona. This area is located on Novajo Indian Land, so it is required that you make reservations with the various Navajo tours that are responsible for access to the canyon. Antelope Canyon includes two separate, photogenic slot canyon sections, referred to individually as Upper Antelope Canyon and Lower Antelope Canyon.

Fruit in water photography

This photo was created using a glass terrarium that I purchased for $12 (on clearance) at our local Petco. I've always wanted to photograph food in water to see if I could re-create some of the food photography that I have seen in various magazines.