Tech Tips

Photographers spend a lot of time processing their images.  Post processing is a critical step in digital photography, and needs careful thought to take your image to what you envisioned.  But honestly, I would much rather be out walking the streets or hiking trails with my camera in hand rather than sitting behind my computer. Read More

You might know this person on your photo workshop: Mr. Speedy (I’m not making this up; a group once named a workshop participant Mr. Speedy).  Mr. Speedy was that photographer who came to the bar with all the day’s images already downloaded…after only being back in his room for an hour.  How was that possible? Read More

I just returned from a week of shooting in Alaska on a workshop, and we had some rain on more than one occasion.  Many of the participants had long telephoto lens like the Nikon 200-500mm.  I was carrying a 300mm F2.8, also a hefty lens.  When you are walking through the marsh hand carrying these Read More

It is hard to keep up with all the new features that get updated in Lightroom.  I just keep hitting the update button when Adobe tells me to update.  Sometimes there are noticeable changes, other times work is done on the back end and not so obvious.  But this latest update added some terrific new Read More

On many shoots and workshops, the photography can be intense and heavy with gaps of down time in-between.  Imagine photographing two grizzly bears wrestling for 30 minutes.  You might shoot 500 images in that time.  Then the bears get tired, and head off into the tall grass to sleep.  Which leaves you sitting there for Read More

What happens when you use a 45MP camera with a 500mm F4?  Any lapse in your technique shows up as slightly soft images!  Honestly, this is user error more than anything.  My 500mm F4 is razor sharp, and the D850 continues to amaze me on many levels including resolution.  But one way to improve performance Read More

I’m getting ready to go to Old Car City this weekend to teach a sold out workshop. We are going to photograph the old cars in this amazing location, as well as use speedlights and photograph models.  The last time I visited Old Car City I had some constanty light, so I decided to create Read More

If you are not familiar with the Dehaze filter in LR or Photoshop, you should be.  This slider can be the silver bullet to improving images…or making them totally over processed.  Some situations you can just grab the slider and do a global adjustment.  Try it out on Northern Lights images or hazy scenes (thus Read More

Just returned from teaching a great lighting class with the Mentor Series in Austin Texas.  Cowboys, barbecues and retro were the themes.  I literally walked into my hotel room, saw the retro refrigerator, and started setting up my speed lights (see my instagram account for the final shot…’tombolphoto’).  Also had a great time teaching with Read More