With my recent investment in new hardware and software updates, I’m finally making a real time-investment in putting together my master Lightroom catalog. When I first went digital (after dabbling for a while, I made the serious switch in 2003), I archived all of my RAW files to DVD. Everything that wasn’t ridiculously hopeless got [...]

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a long time. While finishing up the keywording of my Thailand files in the last couple of weeks, I ran across a good example of what I’ve been wanting to discuss, and that is: how I use Google Maps to help me identify my images.
Of course, taking [...]

It’s an exciting and scary week around here. I’ve been putting off upgrading my old G5 Mac tower for far too long. It was running fine but beginning to get a little tired. I could respect that. I get a little tired, too. But then Snow Leopard came along — running only on Intel-chipped machines [...]

Just a quick note to say that Adobe has announced Creative Suite 5 today, including Photoshop CS5. That’ll put a hitch in my day. Guess I’ll be watching new feature demos ’til the cows come home. Rather than list a bunch of links to the product information, I’ll just link to the post I ran [...]

I’ve been back from Thailand for a week now but I’m still in the thick of organizing and processing my images from the trip. I’ve ended up with about 5000 “keeper” shots after purging the really bad stuff. Those images have all been renamed and filed with the most basic location information included in their [...]

Yesterday morning found me back at Holy Field Vineyard and Winery, shooting the harvest. The grapes weren’t quite ready for last week’s visit but this time the parking area was crowded with cars and the fields filled with people picking and toting fruit.
I went to the ground for this shot and held my D700 [...]

I thought I’d try something a little different tonight and revisit an old file — one that I didn’t really consider a keeper before — and see what I could do with it. I went back to the first international trip I made after switching to digital. It was a trip to Greece in 2003.
It’s [...]

I still have a few more photos from China that I want to share before my next trip begins on the 1st of February. This is a shot of two of the tallest buildings in China — part of Shanghai’s Pudong new development area. This area has sprung up from nothing in the last two [...]

I’ve long been interested in finding a way to get that messy edge similar to what you see on Polaroid transfers but I want to achieve it in Photoshop and in a way that I can easily reproduce it without having to go through too many steps. Today I revisited this project and moved a [...]

I returned from Canada late Saturday night and jumped right back into work on Sunday. Today I finally had enough of a breather to start the post-processing from this trip. The shot above is a pano created with the Photo Merge command in Photoshop from eight separate shots I took at Peyto Lake. I shot [...]