Should I say “HDR” anymore?

I find myself using the term ‘HDR’ less and less every day. When I started as a panoramic photographer in 2002, I was continually frustrated because almost every 360º scene would have blown-out bright highlights or ‘blocked up’ shadows. Often I would have both of those extremes in the same scene because a camera can only capture…

This battery powered strobe lets you shoot up to 1/8000th of a second without losing power

For those who use flash on location, the biggest issue you’ll usually face is power. More specifically, a lack of power. Speedlights start to drop rapidly once you go into high speed sync and big inverters are a pain to carry. Great advances have been made in the last few years by the likes of […]

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Building An Effective Online Portfolio Webinar

We invite you to join us for “Building An Effective Online Portfolio Webinar” Presented by Photofocus, ASMP and Piqsure Present When: Wednesday, July 27th – 2:00pm ET | 11:00 am PT REGISTER HERE Marketing your portfolio can be one of the most challenging aspects of conducting business in the photography profession. Ensuring that you have…

Quickly and easily retouch shiny skin in Photoshop & Lightroom

Shiny skin can sometimes be a problem for portraits, especially if you don’t have a makeup artist. Camera LCDs are so small that you might not notice the shine while shooting. When the shoot’s all over and you’re looking at the images on the computer monitor, what can you do? There are a million different […]

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Android users rejoice. Prisma for Android is now available

Yup, that’s right, after a super brief beta period of only a few days, Prisma is now available for Android. The wildly popular iOS app has over 10.6 million downloads since its launch a short time ago. Prisma shows no signs of slowing down with over 1.55 million daily active users and over 400 million photos […]

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Blincam lets you take photos simply by winking at your subject

Let’s face it, the attached camera was pretty much the only decent feature of Google Glass. It’s also a feature that raised quite a few privacy concerns. The new Blincam, which allows its wearer to shoot a photograph simply by winking, also faces those same privacy issues. It also a presents a newer, slightly creepier, one. It’s […]

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