Camera’s View

Mark Johnson, of the Radiant Vista, every so often, will ask for an image submittal for his Workbench segment.
A while back, I submitted one of those not so great captures that we all have from time to time and besides what good would it be to submit a “perfect image”.
The image included several correction challenges [...]

I have been catching up with Craig Tanner’s Podcast - Light Diary on the Radiant Vista and got the inspiration to try to take a pretty ordinary snapshot image and make it into something a little more interesting.
Here is the original, as captured a couple of weeks ago at the Minuteman National Park [...]

Adobe Lightroom’s virtual copies and presets capabilities are just darn addictive. To someone like myself, who loves to play around with “what if” scenarios, this can sometimes be a curse.
Matt Kloskowski, in his weekly blog - Lightroom Killer Tips , has been creating some really unique presets for the Lightroom develop modules and has been [...]

I am a total convert to using Adobe Lightroom for processing my images and have adopted Scott Kelby’s 7 Point System, but I have been struggling with the integration of the two in a seamless manner. This is particularly the case if you want to use the Smart Objects feature in Adobe Photoshop CS3.
For those [...]

As you can probably surmise from the number of references in this blog, I am a student of and a admirer of pretty much all of the Kelby Training offerings for improving my photography and Photoshop skills.
I am most impressed with the new 7 Point System and it has become the foundation of my work [...]