facebookpixelcode

The Joy Is In the Improvement

I play a lot of golf and you’ll often hear me equate that hobby with photography because there's a lot of learning overlap for those of us that...

Photoshop Custom Adjustment Presets (New Feature)

Adjustment Layers in Photoshop are one of the most useful features we have. Well, recently. Adobe added a new setting which lets you create your own...

Spray and Pray Wildlife Photography (Episode 12)

In this episode Matt is joined by renowned wildlife photographer and photo educator expert, Steve Perry (Back Country Gallery). Steve and Matt...
Download and Managing Your Adobe Updates

Download and Managing Your Adobe Updates

This time of year my support inbox usually fills up with requests on how to download new versions, the new version doesn't show the new features, or is it safe to get rid of older versions, etc... So this year I decided to get ahead of the game and make a video that...

read more
The Biggest Change to Lightroom… EVER!

The Biggest Change to Lightroom… EVER!

Today, Adobe has announced and released a new version of Lightroom Classic (and Photoshop too). This new version has totally changed the way I edit in Lightroom. And it's been so hard to sit on this new feature for the last few months because every time I do a video,...

read more
Pastel Colors and Soft Light

Pastel Colors and Soft Light

I had a really nice morning earlier this week out at Fort Desoto park in St. Petersburg FL. Dick and Vicki from DVWildlife.com (they run the Eagle photography tours in North Florida) came down the day before and we met up for a morning shoot. I really like this time...

read more
Sony 70-200mm GM II Lens Review (for Wildlife)

Sony 70-200mm GM II Lens Review (for Wildlife)

Over the last three weeks I was fortunate enough to get to try out a pre-release copy of the new Sony 70-200mm f/2.8 GM II lens. Sony gave the lens to a few different photographers with various genres and they asked me to photograph some wildlife with it to I could...

read more

Simplify Your Backgrounds in Photoshop

Here's a quick idea for removing a distracting background or just simplifying it a bit so it looks more uniform. And the key to this is that we're able to simplify it without cropping some necessary area out of the photo. https://youtu.be/6eHEzdNgrtU

read more
What Do Pros Say “Gear Doesn’t Matter”?

What Do Pros Say “Gear Doesn’t Matter”?

Let me start this out by saying I don't want this to simply be another "gear doesn't matter... just practice" post. I want to, more specifically, answer a question about why the pros always say "Gear doesn't matter", yet they are the ones always shooting the best gear...

read more
Mandatory Poke? Caption this Photo!

Mandatory Poke? Caption this Photo!

Thought I'd have a little fun today. I captured this photo a month or so ago when I was at Ft. Desoto making some videos for my Bird Photography Guide. Not only was it interesting to watch, but I got some great action stills and video, so you can actually see the...

read more
What’s New in ON1 Photo Raw 2022?

What’s New in ON1 Photo Raw 2022?

The fall is always a big time for software updates and this fall isn't any different. ON1 just released the latest version of their software called ON1 Photo Raw 2022. Below you'll find a video where I recap some of the major new features in this version. Enjoy!...

read more
0

Your Cart