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Making Un-epic Things Epic
Ahh, January in Wisconsin. I’m sure that there’s some photographers in Wisconsin that enjoy venturing out in the cold of winter to take pictures. Alas, I’m not one of them. For me, winter is about...
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Replacing Backgrounds
Although I don’t shoot a lot of portraiture, I’d love to have a good basement studio to shoot portraits when the need arose. Unfortunately, I don’t. What I do have is a couple of Speedlites and a few...
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On Christmas Cards, Zombies and Tax Returns
For the last three years, I’ve put together my own Christmas cards. With a full version of Photoshop, it seemed a little silly to be sticking my pictures into some generic template, when I could put...
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Falling in Love with Editing All Over Again
In my last post, I discussed a family wedding that I’d recently attended and my ambivalent thoughts about wedding photography. And then for the next week or two after that, I went back and edited a...
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I’ll Never Be a Wedding Photographer and This is Why
Here’s the kind of stuff I think about at 2 in the morning, when I’m lying in a hotel bed hundreds of miles away from home and I can’t fall asleep, and here’s how it got started. I went to an...
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When Inspiration Strikes
I haven’t had an occasion to post on the blog for a few weeks now, and I feel bad about that for a few reasons. First off, here in Wisconsin, the trees have been turning colors since mid-September and...
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The Tone of a Black and White Image
When it comes to creating black and white images, I always think of it as a two step process. The first step is principally concerned with getting the overall exposure correct. It involves making...
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Black and White Conversions in Lightroom
Black and white photographs are wonderful and timeless. By pulling the color out, and emphasizing tonality and contrast, an image takes on an almost ethereal quality that reds, greens and blues simply...
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Review: Black, White and Beyond – The Digital Zone System
I found out about Black, White and Beyond: The Digital Zone System over beers last November. It was still months from being released. At the time, it was something that Blake Rudis, the photographer...
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Cross-Processing in Lightroom
Cross-processing is one of those things that never goes out of style–kind of like blue jeans, craft beer, and Doctor Who. For those readers that have never heard of cross processing, it involves...
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Topaz Labs and A Case of Good Customer Service
The best and worst thing about the Internet is how it gives anyone and everyone a mouthpiece. It can be really helpful, for example, to read reviewer comments to get an idea whether that new...
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Beautiful Curves
Sorry, although the title of the post is a little off color for me, I couldn’t resist. For a long time, though, while I put together all of the Photoshop tutorials earlier this year, I resisted the...
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No Lens is Perfect
This is a story about how I gave up worrying and learned to love my lenses. The Background A few weeks ago, I attended a cousin’s wedding with my camera and I shot somewhere north of 200 pictures at...
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Adding some Clarity to Lightroom
Another Monday, another Lightroom video. If I had to pick a favorite slider in Lightroom–and it’d be an embarrassingly geeky thing to do if I did, but if I did–it would be the Clarity slider. The...
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Expanding your Photoshop Horizons through Play
When I first started using Photoshop a few years ago, it was pretty much strictly for editing photographs, so I got pretty good at working with adjustment layers and layer masks and layer styles and...
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Flash Training with Joe McNally (Yes, that Joe McNally!)
“Available light is the very best light, and by that I mean any goddamn light that you’ve got available.” Joe McNally told me that earlier this afternoon. I spent most of today at a KelbyOne flash...
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The Most Important Sliders in Lightroom
A few years ago, not that long after I started using Lightroom 3, Adobe released Lightroom 4. One of the changes that they made to the process version was a complete redo of the Tone section of the...
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Primarily Speaking About Lenses
Over the last two weeks, I attended two family weddings, both as a guest. At the first wedding, I brought my camera because the wedding was on a side of the family that I’m close to so I wanted to be...
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Understanding the Histogram
This last Sunday, I sat down to record a tutorial about adjusting tone and contrast in Lightroom’s Develop module. As I was putting the tutorial together, I realized that I spent a good deal of time...
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Fun with Beer Labels
One of the fun things about brewing your own beer and having some interest and rudimentary training in design (and a copy of Photoshop) is that you can build your own beer labels from scratch. And...
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