For about as long as I’ve been using Wacom tablets, I’ve encountered a rather rare phenomena where my tablet (which I also use as my mouse) will crash and burn causing my mouse to freeze. Other than this occurring in both Lightroom (2 and now 3) and Photoshop, and with both the pen and mouse, …

I don’t shoot a lot of HDR images, nor am I a big fan of them. However, when they are done well they can add that extra dimension to an otherwise uncaptureable photograph. Here I take a look at what I did to get that in my Blowing Rocks HDR.

When I installed Lightroom 3 over my installation of Lightroom 3 Beta, I ended up with a couple of extraneous entries in my the Autoplay list in Windows 7. I don’t know why they weren’t removed considering the rest of the beta was removed, but that’s just how The following information is technical and involves …

Like CS4 and CS3 before it, Photoshop CS5 comes in two flavors extended and regular. The difference is more than a few features and a partly sum of money; $150 if you’re upgrading, $300 for a new license. What Adobe doesn’t make clear, at least I can’t find anything on it, is the difference in …

Safety shift has existed in some form as far back as the original EOS 1D. Its options have changed slightly over the years and though varying cameras but the intent is the same. The function, unfortunately, is somewhat cryptically labeled, potentially leading many to skip over enabling what can be a rather useful function. Safety …

This is a technique to use multiple Canon E-TTL wireless flashes off camera with out having a master on camera using either a sync cord or a pair of cheap RF triggers.

The traditional process of AF adjustment is complicated and requires skill and guesswork in interpreting the results. However, there is an alternative method that works just as well but requires a whole lot less guess work as long as your camera has live view.

A short gallery of a Bald Eagle harassing an Osprey for its fish (kleptoparasitism).

Astrophotography is a specialized area of photography that looks more like astronomy than photography. On a lark, with out any serious astronomy gear, I decided to turn my camera and a fast lens towards the heavens to see what I could photograph.

Development defaults are the way Lightroom applies baseline development settings to an image on import or reset. Defaults are the best way to apply common settings that apply to all images from a specific camera, like sharpening and noise reduction, and not for creative styling or effects. Unlike presets, development defaults change every development setting …