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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...

Free Effects for Photoshop and Lightroom Users

Hi everyone. I usually post presets on Monday but I'm traveling to Sacramento today for my Lightroom seminar tomorrow, and things have been pretty crazy around work, so I haven't had much time to work on some new ones. But I didn't want to leave you hanging so I'm...

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Toronto Skyline Photo

I'm teaching my Lightroom seminar today to an almost sold-out crowd of close to 600, here in Toronto (thanks Toronto!), but I did manage to get out and take some touristy photos after I arrived on Sunday. Whenever I go to a city, I try to make it a point to take a...

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Lightroom Presets – Sharpening for Portrait Photos

A few weeks ago I posted some landscape and outdoor sharpening presets for Lightroom. This time around I have some presets that tend to work best for portraits. The main difference is the masking feature. With landscape and outdoor photos we typically want to sharpen...

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Is There Money In Photography?

This past week on our weekly talk show The Grid, I had two guests (Glyn Dewis and Serge Ramelli). Over lunch (before the show) we were discussing our topic and they had some really good insights on making money in photography. But not just "quit your current job and...

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Why So Many People Love Landscape Photography

Ever hear about (or see) one of those popular landscape photography locations that's absolutely packed with people? Ever wonder why everyone is standing there taking the same exact photo that maybe tens of hundreds of thousands of photographers have taken before? If...

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A Quick Star Photography Q&A

Hey everyone. I'm heading off to Branson, MO with my wife for a friends wedding this weekend. So if you know of any cool things that I need to see or do, let me know. Next, I wanted to say thanks for all of the nice comments on yesterday's post about night sky star...

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What I Learned On My First Star Photo Shoot

I'm on my way back from a quick trip out west to shoot Monument Valley, Page Arizona and Bryce Canyon. I've always been interested in night photography and star photos, but it's pretty hard to do living where I live in Florida (because of light pollution). So while I...

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Tomorrow’s Blog Promise On Shooting Star Photos

Hey everyone. I'm on my way back from my photography trip out west. It's been absolutely brutal to try to get a connection (and the time) good enough to write anything for the blog the last few days. So here's my promise. I'm sitting on my plane at the gate now. On my...

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This Photo Is Why I’m Not Blogging Today

Good morning everyone and happy Monday. I'm out in Monument Valley for a few days shooting with my buddy RC and Bill Fortney. The photo above was taken just minutes ago as we get ready for our sunrise shoot. Internet coverage has been absolutely horrible and we've...

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One More Reason I Chose the D800 Over the D800E

  Well it's official... I got my Nikon D800 last week. I've been using (well, borrowing) one for months now from whoever I could, but I finally pulled the trigger and bought one of my own. A few weeks back I wrote about my comparison on the D800 vs. the D800E. In...

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