In an effort to keep this blog going I thought I'd submit another excerpt from my newsletters. This article was originally published in the Fall 2007 issue of my newsletter and that issue is available online here. Basically this is...

New Lightroom 2.1 RC available for download

I have talked to several photographers that have asked if there is a way to preserve the look of their images as they appeared on the back of their camera once they are loaded into Lightroom. In the past, this...

In light of Steve Simon's excellent post over on the Inside Aperture blog I thought I would delve into this topic (with a little different twist). In Lightroom, it is a simple task to recover highlight information in any image...

I am finally back from Patagonia (southern Chile) and it seems there are a lot of comments on my last four blog posts which were written over a month ago before I left. I'll be responding to those comments as...

I recently purchased the new Nikon D300 for an assignment in Patagonia covering an adventure race. I have read so many good things about the D300 that I figured it would soon supercede my Nikon D2x. And well, I was...

I've discovered myself forgetting to make settings in my files that I have discovered need making for virtually every image I shoot with my current ca'mera. All I have to do to set those settings without changing the settings that...

No matter how many times I take my camera with me to new destinations—whether it is across an ocean or just one timezone away—there is a common thread from one trip to the next: I can never remember to...

I was going to write a Lightroom post this week but who are we kidding? Nobody is thinking about Lightroom right now. Everybody is still in shock from the newest camera announcements from Canon and Nikon. Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III...

Many digital camera manufacturers offer custom image effects that are sometimes quite compelling. The Canon 5D, for example, offers you a choice of electronic filters and toning effects to create a specific black and white look. But if you are...