The Two Types of Photo Opportunities You May Encounter
What do you do when you’re an educator and teacher that has taught over 100 online courses and 99% of them are NOT on your own website where you make your living? Believe it or not, this thought brought me around to a really good photography topic… the one mentioned...
Sign Up For My Costa Rica Photography Workshop – November 2017
NOTE: We are now booking dates in May 2018 for the next Costa Rica workshop. It will most likely be the week after Memorial Day (end May / early June). We'll post when it's live, but feel free to message us as we anticipate this will sell out quickly. I'm super...
A Quick Long Exposure Photo from Key West Florida
Hey there! I figured I'd sneak a quick photo from a weekend trip that Diana and I snuck away on last week. We have some friends that go to Key West FL every year around this time and we can never make it for some reason or anther. This year, we made a commitment to...
What’s New in Lightroom Mobile 2.8 (July 2017 updates)
I've been a big fan of Lightroom mobile for the past couple of years. So much so that I've incorporated Lightroom mobile into my training classes every chance I get. Which is why I'm really excited Adobe just released an update that brings the two most requested...
Nik Is Dead – My Free Survival Guide on Switching to ON1
Last month I saw a ton of questions, Facebook/Twitter posts and just about everything else when Google/Nik stopped working for some people. It seems there was a software update that broke it for some folks, but it also seems like there are some workarounds that will...
I’m An ON1 Plus Guest Coach in July
What's up everyone! I wanted to let all of the ON1 folks out there know that I'm back as a guest coach at ON1 Plus for the month of July. This month's topic is going to be long exposure photography and it leads up to a brand new course that I'll be releasing in July...
Did You Know You Could Use a Polarizer on Your iPhone?
I don't know how else to say this. Sometimes I want to take a photo of something, but I don't want it bad enough that I'm going to get out my "big-boy" camera unless it's already out and ready. This happens for a few reasons. Maybe I'm somewhere I can't bring my...
The Great Smoky Mountain Photo Summit 2017
For the past two years I've been fortunate to be a part of a truly unique photography conference - The Great Smoky Mountain Photography Summit. Originally started by the late Wilson Reynolds, and my good friend, Bill Fortney, it's become one of my favorite events to...
Video: Introduction to Photoshop Color Lookup Tables
I won't lie... I'm a Lightroom preset junkie. But I've been playing with Photoshop's Color Lookup Table adjustment for a while now, and I'm really diggin' the results. I think, as photographers, we all go through different changes and moods when it comes to our...
ON1 Photo Raw 2017.5 Released
If you're an ON1 user, then you'll want to download the new ".5" release. Traditionally the .5 releases are always really BIG for ON1 and this one has a bunch of new features. You can get the full list right from their website, but here's a quick rundown. Lens...
Finally! Lighting for Landscape, Outdoor and Nature Photographers
Well folks, if you follow my blog at all you may realize that every once in a while I find one of those products that totally changes things for me and I have to write about it. The LumeCube mini-light is one of them. Being mostly an outdoor, landscape and nature...
Interview: The Candid Frame with Ibarionex Perello
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of being interviewed by the awesome Ibarionex Perello. I've followed Ibarionex for years and have always loved his work and the style of interviews that he does. This time was no different. We sat down (online) for a while and he...