HDR 101: Shooting Brackets

Human eyes are incredible for viewing the world and seeing into shadows and highlights all at the same time. The basis of HDR photography is making several exposures at varying brightnesses and combining them in a powerful software app like Photomatix so we can view a photograph the same way we view the real world–into…

Lightroom Live: Perfecting Your Portfolio with Al Rossin

You gotta join us live for our next Lightroom Live, totally free of charge. Not only will you learn terrific techniques, but if you tune in live, you can be entered to win excellent prizes to help you in your work. (Note: MUST BE TUNED IN LIVE TO WIN). We’ll be giving away a copy of Perfectly Clear from Athentech.…

Photowalk Las Vegas: 6:00pm Wednesday, Feb. 8th

Many of our Photofocus team will be in Las Vegas for the WPPI photography conference, and we’d love to get together and make pictures with you. Photowalks like this are a great time to put into practice various techniques that you don’t otherwise get time to use. We won’t be walking very far on this…

Lightroom Live: Perfecting Your Portfolio with Al Rossin

You gotta join us live for our next Lightroom Live, totally free of charge. Not only will you learn terrific techniques, but if you tune in live, you can be entered to win excellent prizes to help you in your work. (Note: MUST BE TUNED IN LIVE TO WIN). We’ll be giving away a copy of Perfectly Clear from Athentech.…

Selective Sharpening in Lightroom

Sharpening helps your picture have a little more punch and can allow details to pop and draw attention. If you sharpen the entire image, however, you’ll end up with visible details, called artifacts, in places where there aren’t details, like a blue sky. To avoid creating these artifacts, you can sharpen only those areas that…

Adobe Launches New Creative Apps for ChromeBooks

Education is changing in big ways with new technology, and Google’s Chromebooks have been helping it along. Many schools across the world are using Chromebooks–computers that run Google’s Android operating system–which allow students to learn with an immediacy and intimacy I could only dream of as a kid. Oh, and there are computers available to…

Live Webinar: The Business of Wedding Photography with Lisa Robinson

You gotta join us live for our next Live Webinar, totally free of charge. Not only will you learn terrific techniques, but if you tune in live, you can be entered to win excellent prizes to help you in your work. (Note: MUST BE TUNED IN LIVE TO WIN). We’ll be giving away Perfectly Clear from Athentech.  Plus you never…

Live Webinar: The Business of Wedding Photography with Lisa Robinson

You gotta join us live for our next Live Webinar, totally free of charge. Not only will you learn terrific techniques, but if you tune in live, you can be entered to win excellent prizes to help you in your work. (Note: MUST BE TUNED IN LIVE TO WIN). We’ll be giving away Perfectly Clear from Athentech.  Plus you never…

Long Exposure Noise Reduction (I’m Eating Crow)

If you look at your interchangeable-lens camera’s menu, you’ll probably find a setting for Long Exposure Noise Reduction. In fact, many cameras have this activated by default. It’s a cool tool, and here’s a simple explanation of how it works and when you might not want to use it. What’s it for? When you do…

Lightroom Live: Dive Into Adobe Stock with Terry White

You gotta join us live for our next Lightroom Live, totally free of charge. Not only will you learn terrific techniques, but if you tune in live, you can be entered to win excellent prizes to help you in your work. (Note: MUST BE TUNED IN LIVE TO WIN). We’ll be giving away a copy of Perfectly Clear from Athentech.…