This question comes up a lot and with my recent backup array issue, it came up again.  In most cases your older photos aren’t the most spectacular photos you ever produced.  I dare say 90-95% of them you could easily label as garbage… but they are your garbage.  A couple of months ago some of [...]

Since I got the request to do my same lens correction test for a panorama, but with a cityscape, I asked Mark Schaffer of Knowsphotos if he had a few RAW files I could process.  He’s a far more traveled and accomplished landscape photographer.  You should check out his site, he posts images rather regularly. [...]

If you don’t know if HDR is for you and want to try your hand (or photography) at it, you have the option of of your choice of various 30 day trials for plugins and software.  But if you are like me, sometimes you get distracted and those trials run out or you may not [...]

I got a comment about another HDR application by Unified Color entitled HDR Expose.  And after only testing it on one set of images, I must say I don’t like it yet.  It took it nearly 20 minutes to  merge the 3 RAW images when both Photomatix and CS5 only took a couple of minutes [...]

Print big on a budget. My photography tip this week was to print big.  Printing big allows you to really show off the detail of your work and nothing says wow like a large photo.  But what if you don’t have a large format printer and don’t have the funds for doing big prints? This [...]