Aperture 3 Feature for Backpackers and Photography

Here is a feature in Apple’s Aperture 3 that I ALWAYS wished I had…visual map reference of all my outdoor and backpacking adventures tied to all my images and GPS tracks for cataloging my adventures

Photographer on top of the Empire State Building

I am always amazed at the great heights and lengths photographers will go to to create that image they see in their minds eye… their art. I found this video on Syl’s site, Pixsylated.com. This crazy guy, Joe McNally, working for National Geographic, climes up the needle on top of the Empire State Building. See [...]

Aperture 3.0.1 Update Available

Today Apple came out with an update to Aperture 3 via Software Update that fixes a lot of items. Note that if you are currently testing Aperture 3 in Demo mode, the update will not show up in Software Update, or at least it did not for me. I used the method below to get [...]

The Three Sisters BW

After the first of the year, I was in need of a much anticipated break from everything. I decided to head out wheeling and camping in the Coburg hills. I took our new puppy and off we went. From the top you can see the Willamette Valley from Eugene to Albany on the West side [...]

Changing The Oil

I was heading home after dropping my son off and needed to add some oil to my thirsty International Scout. I pulled over and while I was waiting for the oil to pour in I saw this image. It was as if the the oak tree had a magnetic field drawing the lightrays down from [...]

Will the iPad be useful for photographers

The looooong awaited Apple tablet has been announced. The iPad. So, what will this device mean to photographers if anything?

The Eponymous Album Update #6 | A Blessing

My prayers for a miracle have been answered!
Well, as you may know from recent posts, I had a hard drive crash. The hard drive circuit board fried and it caused some damage to the physical disc. I sent the drive to DriveSavers because I get a discount for being a Professional Photographers of America member [...]

Happy New Years 2010

Tomorrow is the new year and I wanted to wish every one a Happy New Year. May your year be blessed and full of increase.
I have many things to do this new year. I need to redesign some of our website, design a few Album layouts for the purpose of offering wedding albums, offer a more focused [...]

BBQ and a Shoot

I got the opportunity to shoot some friends of mine during a BBQ we had this month. They just had a baby not to long ago and wanted to get something to send to family. It for the kickin’ it at home” look and Things went pretty well. We had a great time. We [...]

Free Song Download-Beautiful

This piece is a spontaneous song that came under an incredible atmosphere of His presence in the room. There was a long stretch of silence after this where all were in a state of awe of  Him, face down.
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Changing Colors In A Black and White Image

There was a little dialogue on my Facebook about my images. The friend was wondering what type of camera I was using. On their last comment, I decided to make a quick screencast to show what I meant by the colors in a RAW black and white image using Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop.
Friend: “These are [...]

Scandinavian Festival-Junction City-Oregon

This weekend is the Scandinavian Festival in Junction City.  The festival runs from August 13-16th this year and is quite popular.  My son and I went in the afternoon on Thursday and had a great time.  He has gotten to the point were he accepts the fact, that no matter where we are, I will [...]

Backpacking for a Portrait

Recently I decided to kill three birds with one stone (who hasn’t).  I decided to go backpacking,  take a few portraits and train my son in location photography techniques, as well.  I know you may be saying, “yah, so what’s the problem”. I‘ll tell you…  Let me start by saying I love backpacking as much [...]

Lightpainting

I thought I would try my hand at lightpainting again last night. I planned a real nice shot with me and some props. So I set up the camera and tripod, I set up the umbrella and flash, basically I had everything prepared for the shot. I got in position to get familiar with my [...]

Masking in Photoshop

I came across this video a few days ago and thought I would share it. Lots of great tutorials on Deke McClelland’s channel at Blip.

Strobist Jet Pack

I know this one may be old, but it is a cult classic. Here you go for fun on a Friday night…

My First Ever Food Photography Image

It all started when I was about 0 days old. I had my first meal…. oops, wrong blog. Seriously, I never really thought of shooting food or food items until an assignment I was given. I figured it could be easy if I knew how to light it. Fortunately I was given a little [...]

How To Photograph Fireworks

I hope all of you enjoyed our Independence Day this weekend! We had a great one here in Harrisburg, Oregon.
This year I thought I would try my photography skills on fireworks. Those beautiful busts of lights in the sky. I don’t really think I have ever tried to get any images of fireworks in years [...]

Microstock Photography Studio

Found this one on Dave Hobby’s site.
Yuri’s studio is all for microstock photos. He sells almost 2,000 photos a day.

Where do you stand?

So I was reading a new post by an author of one of the blogs I follow, Jeremy Cowart, he mentioned a quote, which you can read from HIS site. What a world we live in today. It seems to be going deeper into the whirlpool with no sign of stopping.
Which part of the jersey [...]

Shooting the Heron

I went for a walk the other day down to the river in search of some photographic action. I really wanted something new and different. I had my eye open.
It was a lovely morning. The sun was just starting to crest over the firs and cottonwoods. As I headed out down the gravel bar I [...]

My Photography now has its own Website

As I have decided to turn more towards starting a photography business, I just spent the day redesigning my photography website. I wanted something that was separate from my Wordpress site and more focused on my photography passions. I think the hardest part in the whole process was getting my photos watermarked.Why would that be [...]

Lightroom to Tweetphoto and Twitpic Plugin

Have you ever wanted to post photos (and tweets) straight from Lightroom? Well, Sean McCormack has come up with a brilliant plugin for just that. Check it out here.
Update: I forgot to mention the same for the twitpic plugin.

Adobe Creates the First Blood Pressure Lowering Plugin

Do you own a Macbook Air or recent MacBook Pro and find multi-colored words coming out of your mouth while using Photoshop? If so, you know what I am talking about… your blood pressure rising with each touch of the trackpad.
If you are unfamiliar, you should know that the new Gestures feature for the trackpad really [...]

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