Photography Concentrate

Is it weird that I’m very excited to write this review? Maybe, but that’s ok!! This little program has saved us an unbelievable number of hours of work over the years we’ve used it, so I’m really excited to share it’s amazingness with you!

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You’ve likely heard of The Sartorialist. It’s a wildly popular fashion blog created by Scott Schuman. The story of his blog is fascinating, and well worth a read.

Very briefly, he began simply taking photos of people on the street whose style caught his eye. His background in ...

Note: Tilt shift photography is quite complicated. If you haven’t shot with a tilt shift lens before, trying to wrap your mind around these concepts can be somewhat difficult.

This article may seem very overwhelming at first, but if you’re interested in getting into tilt shift photography we ...

This is a huge. If you haven’t heard about TED be prepared to spend a couple hours learning. This site makes learning addictive.

I’m gonna just straight up say that I wish I just watched all the TED videos instead of going to University. In the span of ...

Have you ever been white balancing an image in Lightroom and just couldn’t quite get the blue out? You’ll slide the white balance to correct an image and warm it up, but it still doesn’t look right.

It often happens when your subjects are wearing white or ...

Alright! It’s been a few weeks since the first part of this series! If you didn’t get a chance yet check out Part 1 where I go over lens selection for portrait and wedding photography.

In this blog post I’m going to be going over a few ...

One of the best ways to learn photography is to study the great photographers. Luckily, it’s easier than ever to do so.

Meet Photography Now. A brilliant site that features the work of some of the most influential photographers of all time. 

Spend some time there, study, and work ...

We spend most of our day in front of a computer. That’s not necessarily my ideal lifestyle, but that’s the reality right now.

As such, I put quite a bit of thought into which programs I use to make my computer life easier and more enjoyable. So I ...

The big news as of yesterday is that Adobe quietly released the full version of Lightroom 3! I’ve been using the Beta for quite some time now and really enjoy a few of the new features, especially vignette and noise reduction.

Is it worth the upgrade?

I would say ...

Today I want to share a Wikipedia article with you about Polymath.

As the Wikipedia article points out, Polymath is Greek for “having learned much”. While not an exact equivalent you will likely know a polymath as a Renaissance man.

Here’s a quote from the Wikipedia entry

“The idea ...

A not insignificant part of digital photography revolves around how you process your images.

I provide such an underwhelming introduction because I feel that processing is something that is necessary to digital photography, but not so important that you can ignore, or spend less time focusing on creating great straight ...