Discover Lightroom is a new 6½ hour video workshop series that will teach you all you need to know about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Whether you’ve never used Lightroom before and wonder if you should be using it, or you’re an old hand and want to sharpen your skils, this workshop might be just what youContinue reading “Discover Lightroom”
Monthly Archives: January 2014
Perfect Photos Every Time
CJ Chilvers, who previously went by the moniker A Lesser Photographer, is an advocate for simplicity in photography. He believes there is no need for the gear phobia and pixel-peeping mania that abounds but that we can make great photos with the simplest of point-and-shoot cameras, or even with our camera phones. That we haveContinue reading “Perfect Photos Every Time”
5 Tips for Better Long Exposure Landscape Photography
David Cleland presents five tips taken from his eBooks. The first one is a good reminder to me; I tend to dive right in, set up my tripod and start shooting. He suggests instead, spending some time considering the scene before even getting your camera out. Read the article Get 43% off the price ofContinue reading “5 Tips for Better Long Exposure Landscape Photography”
Reasons to Shoot High ISO Images
Perhaps you, like myself, had bad experiences with poor quality from higher ISO images as delivered by earlier generations of digital cameras. Does this still make you cling to ISO 100 or 200 unless there is absolutely no alternative? If so you are probably not getting the best from your newer camera. In this articleContinue reading “Reasons to Shoot High ISO Images”
The Arcanum
The Arcanum is brought to us by Trey Ratcliff of Stuck in Customs and Stuck on Earth fame. It uses the traditional master and apprentice approach to learning creative arts, but adds a twist. No longer do a master and his apprentices have to be together in the same place; The Arcanum uses technology toContinue reading “The Arcanum”
Display Calibration
In the 2014 edition of his Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows, Scott Hanselman points out that Windows 8 and 8.1 include a number of utilities that third-party ones you needed previously. One of these is a display calibration utility. So if you use Windows 8 or 8.1, don’t have a SpyderContinue reading “Display Calibration”
Helderberg Photographic Society 