Making a HDR file in Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop

Let night, I got into a quick discussion last night with Tom Hogarty from Adobe about HDR. Yesterday I made a small note in Mason Marsh’s article about Lightroom using a 16-bit HDR file while Aurora, Photomatix, and Photoshop use 32-bit images. Turns out that’s not a completely fair comparison.  Lightroom uses a 16-bit floating […]

See a Beautiful New Photo of Earth With Every New Browser Tab You Open

If you haven’t heard of Urthecast, you need to fix that. Based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Urthecast is a company working hand-in-hand with NASA to provide the first publicly accessible HD camera that’s attached to the International Space Station. While their main objective is a constant stream of HD footage broadcasted live for the […]

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Photo of the Day: “Joy of Autumn”

Category: Family Photograph “Joy of Autumn” by Ben Grey originally shared in the Photofocus Flikr community right here. To learn how your work can be featured on the site, please read this article. This Post Sponsored by: Perfectly Clear for Photoshop or Lightroom is all about saving you time so you can focus on doing what you love […]

Photojojo Has Announced a Brand New Lineup of Smartphone Lenses

Moment, Olloclip, Manfrotto. Those are just three of the many brands that have developed lenses specifically for smartphones. Now, you can add another name to the growing list. Photojojo. Today, the Photojojo team unveiled the Iris lens series, a trifecta of lenses made specifically for smartphones. Photojojo’s lineup consists of a fisheye, wide angle and […]

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Lightroom Hangout: Liberating the Local Adjustments

You gotta join us live for our next Google+ Hangout, 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 Photomatix from HDRSoft.  Plus […]

Photographer’s Tripod Mistaken for Machine Gun Leads to Police Search

Every once in a while someone talks about the violence in the realm of photography. We talk about the images used to ‘shoot’ photos, or ‘take’ photos, and if we’re lucky our gear can ‘fire’ 14 fps. This incident, though, takes it to a whole new level and while many photographers carry a Canon around […]

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