All Entries Tagged With: "photography"
Aerial Infrared Photography From GravityShots.Com
I lent my infrared camera to my good friends Jeff and Adele Scholl earlier this week. Jeff and Adele run a low-angle aerial photography company which uses remote controlled helicopters. Here’s a sampling of what they did with their helicopters and my infrared camera!
Importing Images: Getting Your iPhoto Images to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom v3
Moving images from iPhoto over to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom can be tricky because each program creates its own index. To do this right, you have to understand that these two programs do not work together. Moving files from one program to the other requires “exporting” a copy of your image from one program and then “importing” that file into the other….
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 for Photographers Workshop with David Marx: Oct 31 – Nov 5
David Marx will be leading a week long Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 workshop for Photographers at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Missoula, Montana from October 31 to November 5. This class will be David’s last week long Lightroom workshop for the year. Don’t miss this opportunity to streamline your workflow and master Lightroom this fall.
Getting Started Right: Building Better File Names with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
My digital camera takes great pictures but it gives them lousy filenames. This is a big problem because the file’s name is a really important detail for a professional photographer. Unique filenames make it easy to communicate with clients and they prevent confusion. Sadly, most digital cameras cannot create unique filenames.
Since I cannot teach my camera to name my file’s the right way I must solve this problem when I add files into my Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 index. Lightroom makes generating unique filenames easy once you understand how to create a File Naming Template.
Five New Features of Lightroom 3 for Professional Photographers
This video tutorial is a quick overview of my five favorite new features in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 for the professional photographer. This video highlights: improvements to the import dialog, the new IPTC Extension metadata fields, the improved sharpening and noise reduction algorithms, and the incredible new lens correction tool. The video concludes with a quick demo of the new Publish Services feature.
Amazon Prime: Is It Worth It?
Do you frequent Amazon.com? If so have you considered an Amazon Prime membership? Thanks to Amazon Prime, it is often cheaper and easier for me to have supplies delivered then it is to drive all across this big state looking for photography / computer equipment. If you are already a frequent Amazon customer, or if you live way out in the country like I do, check this service out.
Lightroom 3 Lens Correction Sneak Peak
Adobe Project manager Tom Hogarty recently released this video which shows off the fantastic new Lens Corrections tool that will ship with Adobe Camera Raw 6 and Lightroom 3. I have been messing around with this feature in the private Lightroom 3 beta for a few weeks and I am amazed at how much better some of my old photos look. Check it out!
My Camera Equipment: Digital SLR Advice from David Marx 2010
This article is all about the photography equipment that I use professionally. Among photographers there is no easier conversation starter then the question “what camera do you use?” For some reason, we photographers are obsessed with our camera bodies. I currently own two Canon bodies. Click here to read more about what I use and what photographic equipment I recommend.
Teaching for FirstLight Workshops in Dubois, WY July 12-17!
I will be teaching Lightroom and digital workflow for FirstLight Workshops in the stunningly beautiful Wind River Range of Wyoming this summer! At this amazing event I’ll get to teach alongside Pulitzer-Prize winner and National Geographic photographer Jay Dickman, local star Jeff Vanuga, and Pulitzer-Prize winning photojournalist Skeeter Hagler. Participants in this program will spend five days photographing working cowboys rounding up herds of horses, fly fishermen patrolling pristine mountain streams, local artists and craftsmen at work, and the annual rodeo.
Useful Sunrise and Sunset Websites for Photographers
I teach a class on sunrise and sunset photography. Knowing exactly when and where the sun will rise each day is a big part of getting better images. I find these websites useful especially when I am traveling to new places.
Holiday Gift Ideas for Photographers from David Marx at TheLightroomLab.com
Over the past year, I have grown very interested in star trails, night time, and time-lapse photography. So this year I made two gifts lists. The first set of gifts are gadgets that I find useful for time-lapse and night photography. The second set of gift ideas are just general items related to my love for digital photography. I hope these list help you find the perfect gift for your loved ones this holiday season.
Black Friday Specials from Amazon, B&H, Acronis, etc.
Looking for Black Friday deals? Please check out these offers from companies that support our work. The tiny bit of revenue that we receive from purchases made through our links and banner ads helps to keep this site going. Thanks for your support and have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
DpBestflow.org from the ASMP: Worth your Time
The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) just released a guidebook–actually it is a multimedia website–that covers the best practices in every aspect of digital imaging technology! I am confident that the time you spend on the dpBestflow.org site will be time well spen
Shameless Self-Promotion: My Grand Canyon National Park Photo Gallery
Please check out this new gallery of landscape and whitewater rafting photographs from my adventures in Grand Canyon National Park.
Adding Metadata Adds Value to Your Photographs
Metadata is the new term for the descriptive information that accompanies any digital file. For photographers, metadata makes it easy to search through a huge library of images using tools like Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Searching for a picture based on its metadata terms is far more efficient than scrolling along and looking at each and every picture in your computer until you find the right one.
Links for my “Business of Photography and the Web” now available
Every year, I give a lecture for the Rocky Mountain School of Photography’s Advanced Intensive students on the business of photography and the internet. Every year, I find amazing new websites that fill in some gap in the capture to client to the bank chain. If you are interested in the sites from this year’s lecture please follow this link.
Proper Exposure With a Digital Camera
The digital camera’s sensor does not see the world the way our eyes do. With our eyes, brightness and tonal variation are linear, but for the camera this scale is logarithmic. Basically, this means that the camera can record lots of tonal variation at the brightest end of the spectrum but it captures very little tonal variation at the darker end.
Shameless Self-Promotion: My Ski Photography
I just put this video slideshow of my ski photography up on the web. You can watch it here in HD, or you can download the full-size mp4 from Vimeo.com. If you like it, please feel free to share it with your friends. Hope you enjoy it!
Digital Camera File Formats: Raw and Jpeg–Updated
Most digital SLR cameras can record images using either a Raw or a Jpeg file format. Both formats have their own advantages and disadvantages. It is up to you to decide which option is the most appropriate for the way that you work and for the equipment that you have at your disposal. Of the two formats, Raw is both the most straightforward and, ironically, the most complex.
Recommended External Hard Drives– Updated
Update: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and external hard drives are a perfect match for the serious digital photographer. Thanks to the low price of high-quality external hard disks, we now have an inexpensive way to store thousands of digital images and to make redundant backup copies of our precious work. I’ve completely re-written this post on which external hard disks I trust for both my main photo storage drive and for my backup drive. Check out the new recommendations….
