I’ve got camera lenses on the mind. I’m on the hunt for a new lens and I’ve decided it’s going to be a prime lens. I’ve had a few of these in the past, but I’ve sold them all off. Currently, all I have are zoom lenses. I go back and forth between which is […]
How to Preview Depth-of-Field with a Canon DSLR Camera
I’d like to continue on with the theme of “depth of field” for just a little while longer. If you haven’t seen my previous post on the topic, you can click through to read up on things here: The Basics of Depth of Field For Photography I didn’t go nuts in that post and try […]
The Basics of Depth of Field For Photography
It seems like I’ve been hearing about depth of field forever. Even before I was into photography, I heard about depth of field. Depth of field this and depth of field that. It was and is all over the place. And do you want to know the truth about it? I don’t think I ever […]
How Much Larger are Smart Object Files Than Regular Files in Adobe Photoshop?
We all know by now that we should be converting layers that we add filters to in Adobe Photoshop to Smart Objects. I’ve said this a dozen times on this blog. Doing this has tremendous upside and only somewhat of a downside. The upside is that the layer we’re working on will be protected by […]
Do I Really Need to Use a Camera Lens Hood When Photographing?
This is a follow up post from yesterday’s post. After I wrote that post, I began thinking about protecting camera lenses and about lens hoods in general. As I mentioned in my previous post, the consensus is to use a lens hood to help avoid bumping the actual camera lens into things when you’re in […]
Tips For Protecting Your Camera Lens
The truth of the matter is that camera lenses are expensive. Not all of them are really expensive, but some of them are. And even for the ones that aren’t, it’s not like any of us want to go out and purchase another one because something terrible happened to the one we have. In today’s […]
Looking For an Ad Placement Plugin That Can Post Between Excerpts
This title probably wasn’t clear. What I’m looking for is a WordPress ad inserter plugin that can insert ad units in between post excerpts on the homepage, category pages, tag pages and search results pages of my WordPress blog. I’m currently using the Ad Inserter plugin by Igor Funa and it’s really great. The only […]
How to Rename & Reorder Layers in Adobe Photoshop
I wanted to write a quick post to answer a question I received a few days ago regarding the management of layers in the Layers panel of Adobe Photoshop. Many folks who are new to this application have some difficulty understanding the basics of how layers work. I always tell them to think about Photoshop […]
How to Apply an Adjustment to Only One Layer in Adobe Photoshop
The answer is clipping. I’ll tell you that right up front. If you would like to apply an adjustment layer to just one layer in Adobe Photoshop, use the clipping feature. It’s that simple. Have you ever worked on a file in Photoshop and thought about adjusting only one area of an image? For instance, […]
Camera Settings For Photographing During the Blue Hour
Have you ever heard of the blue hour? If you’ve been involved with photography for a while, you’ve most likely come across the term, the golden hour. That’s a period of time, either in the morning or the evening, when the sun sits low on the horizon. The sky gets orange or red and you’ll […]
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