Photographer of the Day: Neeko Aquino

Category: Sports Photograph: Soldiers Playing Cards by Neeko Aquino Originally shared on the Photofocus Google+ community right here. To learn how your work can be featured on the site, please read this article.

Photographer of the Day: Fitz Crittle

Category: Sports Photograph: There’s A Better Way by Fitz Crittle Originally shared on the Photofocus Flickr community right here. To learn how your work can be featured on the site, please read this article.

Photographer of the Day: Ben Aerssen

Category: Sports Photograph: Portrait: Movement (Cyclist) by Ben Aerssen Originally shared on the Photofocus Flickr community right here. To learn how your work can be featured on the site, please read this article.

Automatically Generate XMP Files in Lightroom

Do you know if you’re Lightroom Catalog is writing XMP data automatically? An XMP file is a sidecar or additional file that contains the metadata to a raw image. When Lightroom makes changes to a raw file, the raw file itself remains unchanged. A sidecar file is created to tell editing programs what has changed…

Stop Waiting for Lightroom to Preview your Images

Sometimes you just need to turn around images really quick when photographing an event like a wedding or party, maybe a concert or show…even just a quick portrait session. Waiting for Lightroom can feel like an eternity, so we can use another program called Photo Mechanic to quickly browse and rate our images. Photo Mechanic…