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This summer we had an amazing assignment photographing hummingbirds for Nikon, and later we did two workshops in the same area.  Cree and I love bird photography, and hummingbirds are just amazing!  We took a creative approach to our hummingbird photographs.  We used 5-6 speed lights and white backgrounds for many images, and styled different Read More

I recently read some interesting blog posts from photographers photographing the Olympics.  This photography is rough…..hours on the floor photographing, then back to your workstation to download, edit and upload select images to service bureaus and clients.  The instant nature of news, social media and advertising has totally transformed turnaround times on images.  Things have Read More

One program I use all the time is Topaz Denoise.  It just works, and consistently gives me amazing results.  I may spend an entire morning photographing birds at ISO 6400, and I will run them all through Denoise.  I don’t use Gigapixel or Sharpen as much, but I do use them from time to time. Read More

Lightroom just keeps getting better and better.  When Adobe announced Super Resolution for Photoshop, people were impressed.  This new feature greatly increased the size of your image, with really good results.  So after heavily cropping that wildlife photo, you could still have enough file size for a decent print.  The new LrC update adds this Read More

With Photoshop’s new Enhance Super Resolution, many photographers are enlarging their images right out of camera raw.  No third party plugins needed, and you get a beautiful result to crop or print.  One question we have received a lot is can you use this feature (soon to be released in Lightroom) using jpeg or tiff Read More

If you have joined one of our online classes from the last year, or have been on one of our workshops, you know how much we love Photo Mechanic.  We use this on the road for quick editing (without having to download to Lightroom…that happens on our main computers in the office after the trip) Read More

I can’t count the number of times I have photographed wildlife and wished I had a longer lens.  If possible I always try to fill the frame in camera for tight wildlife shots.  But what happens more often is I have to crop down from an existing image.  One of the great things about the Read More

Last year I talking about Topaz Sharpen AI.  I liked the program, and it worked well for sharpening images.  However, it didn’t have the ‘wow’ factor that Topaz DeNoise AI had.  I have never seen better results reducing noise as Topaz DeNoise produces.  Getting DeNoise was an obvious choice. Topaz has updated Sharpen AI since Read More