Photography Tips

Photography Tips

The iPad: The Best Device For Photographers

The iPad is a great device photographers. Here’s tips for using its slide show and other features. The article is published on MakeUseOf.com, a site write for on a weekly basis.

New Adjustment Presets in Aperture 3.0

If you’re an avid user of Apple’s Aperture, you no doubt know about the recent release of Aperture 3.0. One of the most desired features for the program was universal presets, of the type used in Adobe’s Lightroom image adjustment application. Well, advance presets are now available in Aperture 3.0. The application comes installed with over three dozen very useful presets that you can use right out of the download or box. In addition, any presets that you created in the previous version of Aperture will show up automatically in 3.0. Read more…

My Use of the Lowepro Trail 2 Camera Bag

I purchased this bag because I need a way to access different lenses during wedding shoots. I don’t keep my Canon 50D in the bag simply because it’s not roomy enough for a camera with a battery grip on it. So I basically keep the following in this bag: Canon 70-200mm zoom lens, Canon 50mm, Tamaron 11-14 wide angle, Canon 28-105, and a 580Ex flash. I swap out lenses as needed. I also think it’s good not keep your flash on your camera at all times because it can influence camera shake. With this bag, I can easily access my when needed. Read more…

5 Tools to Improve Any Photo

Using almost any photo editor (iPhoto, Aperture, Photoshop, or even Apple’s Preview), you can use some basic editing tools to improve any photo. Here’s a basic workflow process.

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Bring Back the Sky

Sometimes when you’re shooting with subjects in the foreground and the blue cloudy sky in background, it’s hard to take a photo whereby both the foreground and the background are sufficiently exposed.

That’s the case with this photo below. Shooting in RAW mode, I exposed for the sky so that I could maintain its detail. As you can see, though, the bride and groom are under exposed. But the power RAW mode enables you to work with under exposed photos a lot better than in shooting in JPEG mode. Read more…

Aperture and sRAW: What’s the Problem, Apple?

The Canon 50D digital camera includes three RAW formats, including the standard 15 (4752×3168) megapixel size, and two smaller sizes: the sRAW1 7 (3267 x 2178) megapixel and the sRAW2 3.8 (2376 x 1584) megapixel sizes. These RAW modes are also available, in larger sizes, in the Canon 5D MarkII. Read more…

In the World of Mac Photography

From time to time, I will post links to other interesting Mac related photo tips.
Here’s my first five:

1. What To Know About iPhoto ‘09 Face Detection and Recognition [Apple]

2. Aperture for Nature Photographers Read more…

Does iPhoto’s Faces Really Work?

After purchasing Apple’s new iLife ’09 suite of software, the first feature I wanted to explore is iPhoto’s Faces. It has been one of the most talked about and anticipated features of iPhoto ’09. Similar to the face recognition technology found in newer digital compact cameras, faces attempts to scan all your images in your iPhoto library and identify individual faces in them. Macworld attendees oohed and awed the feature when Phil Shciller presented it in early January. Read more…