HDR photo tips

You know that I seldom hype the multitude of new gadgets and photo software that comes along unless I've tried it and it works for me. I depend on quality products to make my photographs and the [...]

Want Great Photos from your next Death Valley trip? Here are the top two tips when you want something special in your vacation photos at majestic locations like Death Valley. Tip #1: Stay away in [...]

Out With San Francisco’s Old Bus Terminal In downtown San Francisco, right around 1st St, the old bus terminal is gone. All the new construction next to where it used to be is the Transbay [...]

  Easy Perspective Correction for those Crooked Lines It happens to us all the time.  Our photos have distortion and converging lines.  Sometimes the cause is wide angle lens distortion and [...]

  Three days prior to the full moon of each month, an alarm goes off on my iPhone as a reminder.  It’s really cute.  The app plays the sound byte from the Apollo moon landing back in [...]

Do You Have a Wall for this print? What a fun few acres of land Garden of the Gods is!  The rock formations here are amazing, just like in other parts of the Southwest.  Odd rocks and roots and [...]

Japanese Cave – Bukittinggi, Sumatra Lightroom 4 G+ Group Recently I joined another photography community on Google +. There are a lot of them and I limit mine to those either featuring HDR [...]

Photoshop CS6 or Elements 11 for HDR?   Quite a few beginning HDR photographers have been visiting the blog so I want to write this  post today to help beginners avoid confusion about what [...]

Get your epic print of Bayon temple today! Early Morning at Bayon is Magical   It’s quite a moving experience to be at Bayon temple first thing in the morning. Getting there before [...]

Sneak Peek of Topaz Detail 3   An email from Topaz Labs the other day offering me a sneak peek at the new Detail 3 plugin was intriguing.  Detail 2 is a plugin I use occasionally, although [...]