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Lightroom 1 arrives

During the NANPA convention last month, I attended a digital workflow seminar with noted photographer George Lepp. During his presentation, he showed off features of a beta program called Adobe Lightroom. The beta was quick and packed with stuff. Now, George admitted he was using Jpegs for the presentation to…
Gary Crabbe
February 21, 2007
DigitalPhoto Business

If only there were some guidelines…

At the NANPA Conference Pro's Meeting, a packed room was asked, "How many people are just using film?" Out of several hundred photographers sitting in on this session, only three raised their hands. That means almost everyone is now using digital. Not surprisingly, at the outset of this 'revolution', professionals…
Gary Crabbe
January 26, 2007
Digital

Learn HDR

I don't do too many HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos. In fact, I've only experimented with a few shots here and there. But with Photoshop's HDR feature, it's possible to get images with a range of detail in highlights and shadows that had not been previously possible with single frame…
Gary Crabbe
October 18, 2006
Digital

Web Color Tips

Creative Pro has a quick tutorial for understanding how Color photos appear in web browsers, and how to best prepare images for display on the web so that the colors remain accurate. If you're not familiar with the terms "Adobe RGB" and "sRGB", yet you love to post images onto…
Gary Crabbe
October 3, 2006
Digital

How do you like your photos served

If you're like me and many others, you like your photos served up RAW, and the RAW'er the Better'r. The OPENRAW.org has released the results of their 2006 survey which is also in a PDF file on their web site. And speaking of RAW, I recently replied to a forum…
Gary Crabbe
May 31, 2006
DigitalNewsworthy

Tweet Tweet said the over-anxious bird

Another one of those annoying little birds has been seen tweeting it's way around the Internet. In this case, it's in the form of a very small little blurb on the Nikonians site, pre-announcing a June 2nd announcement from Nikon, announcing an upgrade to their D2x camera body. Of course,…
Gary Crabbe
May 30, 2006
Digital

Digi-crop explained

For anyone curious about how most digital cameras differ from more traditional SLR's, the smaller sensors apply a 'crop factor' - essentially zooming in on every scene. Photographer Bob Johnson has a great explaination of the technical aspects on his Tip of the Week. Additionally, he promises more on the…
Gary Crabbe
March 8, 2006
Digital

HDR too far

Digital photography offers some wonderful capabilities over traditional analog film counterparts. One of the main areas many people like to tout is the extended dynamic range of digital vs. film. Photoshop has a tool called "Merge to HDR" where you can take a series of images at different exposure values,…
Gary Crabbe
February 18, 2006
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