Memos From The Digital Darkroom

Though Adobe made significant improvements to Photoshop’s HDR processor with CS5’s Merge to HDR Pro, I still find Photomatix Pro to be my HDR software of choice. I’m able to get the looks I like - from natural to artistic - more consistently  with Photomatix Pro. Sometimes, though, I need to use Photoshop to prepare [...]

(Guest Blog by Gary Wilson)
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One of the wonderful things about photography is its rich heritage spanning evolutions of time and technology. I often rely on that heritage to try old things out in new ways for the fun of experimentation, just to keep interest alive.
Less than a month ago I was [...]

Last year I gave my old point-and-shoot digital (DP&S) to my friend, Cliff, who was going to Burning Man. Though I’d bought it because I wanted an easy-to-carry camera, it hadn’t seen any action in a couple of years. The delay between pressing the shutter button and the shutter actually opening was annoying, but more [...]