by Matt K Photography | Sep 8, 2014 | Tips
(photo courtesy of Fotolia.com) A couple of weeks ago on our live weekly show, The Grid (video is below), RC Concepcion and I thought it’d be cool to do an entire show on gear. Basically, we put it out there and just said “ask questions”. In our...
by Matt K Photography | Sep 1, 2014 | Photography
One of the popular places to shoot in Death Valley is the Racetrack Playa (mostly just called The Racetrack). It’s got these large “sailing” stones on it that leave tracks along the playa. When you find the right stone, with a nicely-shaped track...
by Matt K Photography | Aug 25, 2014 | Tips
I’m starting off the post by going against all of the rules of building things up and developing intrigue and all that. I’m gonna tell you the not-so-hidden secret to getting epic landscape photos right now. Ready? The Secret: Move to the location that you...
by Matt K Photography | Aug 21, 2014 | Tips
A couple of months ago the chance to write a feature article on photograping water came up for Photoshop User magazine. So I jumped on it because, well, I love shooting water. Beaches, lakes, waterfalls… you name it. It never gets old to me. I have a few beach...
by Matt K Photography | Aug 12, 2014 | Photography
Hey everyone! Well, I’m getting back in the swing of things after being gone for a week to photography and film some KelbyOne.com classes. We started the week at Mt. Rainier for a landscape photography class, and then went in to Seattle to finish up a...
by Matt K Photography | Aug 8, 2014 | Photography
It’s hard to believe I’m on my way home already. I feel like I just posted that I was heading out to Mt. Rainier to record a landscape photography class. Anyway, I’m happy to report that the class went really well, the weather cooperated, the photos...
by Matt K Photography | Aug 1, 2014 | News
Hey everyone. It’s been a light week on the blog so I thought I’d give you a quick update. First, why I haven’t had much time to blog… well, on Sunday I have a big trip (more on that in a minute, because I need your help). So this week I wanted...
by Matt K Photography | Jul 28, 2014 | Tips
Last week, over at Kelby One, we did a free webcast for Photoshop World coming up in just over a month. We had videos and tutorials from lots of various Photoshop World instructors, and I jumped in to do a quick tutorial on replacing a not-so-great sky in landscape...
by Matt K Photography | Jul 21, 2014 | Photography
Hey everyone. Last week I did a free webinar over at onOne Software called The 5 Golden Rules for Editing Your Landscape Photos. In the webcast I mentioned that I have some presets I use for clouds in onOne’s Perfect Effects (not in Lightroom). I was going to...
by Matt K Photography | Jul 7, 2014 | Photography
I hope everyone had a great 4th of July weekend. I finished mine off last night by throwing a couple of beers in a cooler, and heading to a place about 20 minutes from my home called Honeymoon Island (in Dunedin, FL). I’ve been to Honeymoon Island a bunch of...
by Matt K Photography | Jul 1, 2014 | Photography
Hey everyone. It’s been a little crazy around here since Apple announced that they’re stopping future development for Aperture. As you can imagine, there’s a lot of Aperture users that are now looking to make the move to Lightroom. And since...
by Matt K Photography | Jun 26, 2014 | Photography
Hey everyone. Just wanted to let you know about a big summer sale that onOne Software is having on their plug-ins. Not only do you get the entire Perfect Photo Suite 8.5 (with their latest updates), but you get summer-styled presets and en eBook from the awesome...
I love teaching and photography... In that order. I feel that enjoying photography, and photo editing can get WAY too complicated. So my personal mission (and favorite thing to do), is to create education that simplifies the process of taking great photos, and how to edit them to get the results you’ve always wanted.