by Matt K Photography | Aug 13, 2012 | Lightroom
So, we’re driving home last night, and I look west toward the beach to see this crazy-cool-cloudy sunset. We live in Florida and this time of year (with all of the thunderstorms out there), you can imagine some of the dramatic scenes we get. So it got me...
by Matt K Photography | Aug 10, 2012 | Lightroom, Photoshop, Reviews
Hey everyone. First, don’t forget to scroll down to the next post. I’m giving away a ticket to my upcoming Lightroom seminars. Next… I wanted to post a quick follow up to the Tiffen review from yesterday. I realized from some questions I got on the...
by Matt K Photography | Aug 9, 2012 | Lightroom, Photoshop, Reviews
I’ve been wanting to try out Tiffen’s Dfx V3 Lightroom and Photoshop plug-in for a while now. So I installed it a few weeks ago and started diving in. I’ve gotta tell ya up front. I’m a total onOne Software and Nik Software snob. For a while,...
by Matt K Photography | Aug 8, 2012 | Personal, Photography
Okay, I did something today that I haven’t done in years. I printed a bunch of 4×6’s. The ones you see right at the top of this post (from a recent family vacation to New Jersey). Full disclosure though… my post today has two purposes. First,...
by Matt K Photography | Aug 7, 2012 | Photography
This photo probably goes down as one of my “not so smart” moments in photography stories. Now, I’m not saying what I was doing the evening I took this photo was the height of life-threatening by any means, and I’m sure there’s many people...
by Matt K Photography | Aug 6, 2012 | Lightroom, Photoshop
You’ll see there are 4 presets in this download. One of them is an all-purpose B&W effect that I use most of the time. But there’s a few others for outdoors, beaches (which is a little different than the general outdoors one, and indoor portraits)....
by Matt K Photography | Aug 2, 2012 | Personal, Photography
I was running out of the house for work this morning and I snapped a photo of my new wall. I’m really embarrassed to say that I have many walls in my house with no photos on them. It’s not for lack of having photos though – it’s just a matter...
by Matt K Photography | Aug 1, 2012 | Photography
What do they have in common? The fact that they’ll all be together and I’ll get to hang out with (and near) them for a few days. I’m thrilled because I just booked my trip to Jackson Hole, WY and Grand Teton National Park in late September. The Grand...
by Matt K Photography | Jul 31, 2012 | Photography
Hey everyone. I had some great feedback from last week’s post so I’m back with another “The Story Behind the Photo” post. This time around I’ve got a photo of my cute little niece, Ella. I think the story offers a lot of insight for...
by Matt K Photography | Jul 30, 2012 | Lightroom
You’ll see there’s 4 presets in this download. I went through my photos and realized that most of my landscape photography falls into several categories (canyons, beaches, photos with lots of green in them, and photos with a lot of sky in them). So I...
by Matt K Photography | Jul 27, 2012 | Personal
Today is Joe McNally’s birthday and it got me thinking about all of the wonderful things I’ve learned from Joe over the years. Sure, like many out there, you’d think most of it was about using flash. But I’ve learned just as much from watching...
by Matt K Photography | Jul 26, 2012 | Photography, Photoshop
A while back Dan Steinhardt from Epson and Josh Haftel from Nik Software proposed a class for Kelby Training on Black and White printing. Of course we jumped at it because this is always a hot topic. Plus, you really can’t get two people more knowledgable and...
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.