Police tells attorney he can’t film them, Police Chief invites citizens to film the police in response

Here is an interesting turn of events. According to the Washington post, what started a police falsely telling an attorney/uber driver that he can’t film them, ended up with the police chief issuing a statement where he invites the public to film cops. This “incident” started when Jesse Bright, a North Carolina attorney got stopped over by the police. […]

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Macphun Tip: Adding Textures to Photos

A great way to stylize your images with Macphun’s Luminar is to use a texture layer.  This option lets you place a custom image or texture above your photo.  It can then be blended as a layer into the current image. Textures can easily give your photos new unique looks, especially when you’re trying to achieve a vintage or…

Caffeine – One of my Favorite Apps for Mac

I frequently find myself walking away from my iMac when batch exporting images from Lightroom or rendering video. Before walking away, I want to make sure the computer doesn’t go to sleep and stop exporting/rendering my files. I’m not a big fan of wasting time and nothing is worse than setting 10 videos to render…

DSLR Video Weekly: Shooting with Motion in Mind

This is article #3 in the DSLR Video Weekly series.  If you’d like the whole thing in one shot, check out the book Creating DSLR Video: From Snapshots to Great Shots. If you’ve been shooting photos, you’ve probably developed many of the skills that are used to tell visual stories.  Composition skills help you frame the shot,…

Retouching interiors in Lightroom & Photoshop

Here’s a typical quick interior shoot for a Swiss brand called VIU Eyewear. They contacted me to create three images for their website/social networks. The only rule was to stay in the same style than their other images on their “Stores” page (something very simple, white and luminous with an emphasis on the store interior […]

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Student from Navasota killed by train while taking photos

This Friday, a terrible accident happened because of a reckless photo shoot. A 19-year-old Blinn student and photographer was killed by a train while taking photos in Navasota, Texas. Fredzania Thompson was shooting along the train tracks when she was hit by a Union Pacific train. The accident happened on the train tracks near Hollister and […]

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Fast & Easy Photo Keywording from the Cloud

If you ask a random group of photographers what their favorite things about photography are, odds are “spending hours keywording images” is not on anyone’s list! Keywording is a task that is easy to put off. I am guilty of this and quite often behind getting it done. I’ve set aside a specific “keywording” day on the…

Fuji X100F

We’re continuing to enjoy using the Fuji X100F to document our trip. You can can check out this previous post for our first impressions / and photos. In this post I’ll give an update on how things have been going. Note: all the photos in this post are straight out of camera jpegs  shot under […]

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