While processing images form a recent kayaking photo shoot I was amazed at the difference using the Fill Light slider made to my images. I was shooting images of expert kayakers on the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico and...

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...

As a pro photographer I am sometimes called to upload images the same day they are shot - it isn't often that this is required but every once in a while a few assignments require it. One of the very...

The snowy landscape is a staple of Christmas imagery, even for those that live in otherwise snowless climes. One year, I was in Hawaii in mid-December and was amazed at all the holiday decorations that involved snow and Santas wearing...

Lightroom’s keywording infrastructure is pretty straightforward: by applying any number of keywords to your photos, you are essentially creating a catalog that can be searched through to retrieve photos that match your desired criteria. I have been pretty diligent about...

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...

Starting tomorrow, I'll be shooting the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. It's the 3rd year in a row I've shot this show, and I know from experience that a very challenging conference to shoot. Web 2.0 Summit is a...

George Mann’s previous post illustrated the effects of Lightroom’s white balance presets. In the event that one of the presets don’t fill your needs, you are, of course, free to set your own balance, either with the eyedropper (as...

On the surface this image was fairly difficult to process in Lightroom and I will for sure have to take it into Photoshop CS3, to get the best results. The foreground of the image is in a very deep...

Well, being in a foreign location certainly can force one to take one's Lightroom thinking a step further. Here in Costa Rica, at this time of year, it rains every afternoon, sometimes, in sheets. The result is a lot of...

I know it often seems like several of us on this blog site are talking about the same thing, but I assure you that it is pure coincidence and I hope all the readers get as much out of...

Well, I’m headed to another country to do a bit of babysitting. Some old friends have a ranch in Costa Rica in a stunning location just south of one of Costa Rica’s national parks. After a couple of weeks of...

It's normal this time of year to ask, "What did you do for your vacation?" Yesterday I ran into Adobe's Bill Stotzner and he told me he took Lightroom underwater for his vacation. Let me explain....

The other morning I was up unusually early, thanks to a hungry cat, and was able to photograph a great sunrise over Portland. It's not often that I'm up for sunrise, but whenever I am, I always sort of wish...

When I saw this scene in front of me, I realized that it was going to be very difficult to get what I was seeing. For one it was very dark and I was standing on a very narrow and...

Despite the raised eyebrows, I insisted on taking my portable 4 x 6 dye-sub printer on my trip to Ireland. You know, I never missed that fourth pair of shoes, especially when I was having fun making personalized postcards with...

The other night, my father and I took a day trip out over the mountains and into central Oregon. Our aim was to find a nice dark spot far away from any bright lights so that we could enjoy the...

We just closed up the summer house in Norway, and we are enroute back to San Francisco. It's been a memorable week, filled with many positive events. First, on Monday, there was Michael Reichmann's Luminous Landscape piece on the Lightroom...

On Tuesday, while shooting images at a small iron foundry here in Ulefoss, Norway for my Under the Hood, Working Raw project, I messed up. What followed is both a testimonial for Lightroom and shooting in the RAW mode....

At last, the Photoshop Lightroom Adventure book is here in print. We've been fighting over the copies we have here in Sebastopol. I have a feeling this is one of those books that's going to disappear off the desks of...