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Lightroom 3 Beta Is Now Available

I saw this morning when I opened up Twitter that there is a lot of coverage for the Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta release in the blogspehere today. I will honestly say that I have not downloaded Lightroom 3 Beta yet. I haven’t checked out all the new features or produced any videos showing these new [...]

HDR Merge Challenge

One of the topics discussed a lot when comparing HDR software applications is the merge algorithms. Everyone has a different opinion on which application merges the exposures better. In order to provide better information on which is best, I took four of the prominent HDR applications and merged a few different exposure sets that I [...]

HDR Photography FAQ

I have been getting a lot of questions lately from people wanting to get started in HDR so I decided to write up my very own FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) post to help out. I am not going to call this the Complete HDR FAQ or anything of that sort since I am sure there [...]

Holy Grail of Image File Management Is Here!

I few weeks back I posted about my desire to create the holy grail of image file management work flows. You can read the original post HERE. With Adobe Lightroom 2.0 insane features for image file management, we would be dumb to not figure out the best way to use them. After making that post [...]

Shooting Tethered From Your Camera Into Lightroom (Canon Version)

On March 26th Scott Kelby posted a blog entry detailing how to shoot tethered and have the images automatically show up in Lightroom. His post shows screen shots of the Nikon Camera Control 2 software since he is a Nikon user (we won’t hold that against him) but doesn’t show any screen shots from Canon’s [...]

The Holy Grail of Image File Management

I have always known that my image file management technique sucks. For a long time I did not use “tags” or “keywords” and my file system structure was not very good either. The following is a quick description of the folder system I have been using to date…


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