Looking to expand your Lightroom knowledge? The Lightroom Virtual Summit has everything you need to enhance your skillset. This online-only education event will feature 45 classes, offering over 33 hours of training absolutely free! The five-day event, running October 3-7, 2022, features several courses aimed at portrait editing. Here’s some of our favorites that we’re…
I live in a town that is crazy for mountain biking. It was inevitable that my photography career would evolve to include photographing people hurtling down dirt trails on two wheels. In fact, bike photography has become one of my primary genres of photography. While the biking genre is quite diverse, photographing bike races has…
I began photographing women when my personal love life was circling the drain. I was at an all-time low and never wanted another woman to feel like I did. It became a personal mission to empower and capture them as strong and beautiful as I see them. Paying it forward was, in a sense, living…
I could never fall in love with the original Fujifilm 56mm f1.2 R lens. In fact, I sold it to someone along with my XH1 for a cheap price because I wanted to get rid of it. Yet, with this new lens, I’m finding something pretty gorgeous. Fujifilm said they revamped the optics to make…
I’m sure you’ve seen them around on social media — the daily, weekly and monthly photography challenges that are out there. These challenges can be a great way to help you improve your photography. How? Focus on one subject By concentrating your efforts on a theme, you’ll spend your time thinking about and working on…
“I get it,” is what a long-time reader texted me one day on Instagram after experiencing a Leica M4. The smile on my face went ear to ear. Finally, someone understood me. The Leica Q2 isn’t a camera I expect most people to understand. It’s a true professional’s passion camera. It fills a void that…
Fujifilm has been working hard to release new lenses that will make the most of the new 40MP sensor that can be found in the new Fujifilm X-H2. If there is one area where Fujifilm excels, it’s in the lens department. Fujifilm has been cranking out great primes and zooms that render fantastic images for…
With the weather soon changing, it might be time to get out and attend some workshops. The thing about being creative is finding inspiration and a constant stream of it. It’s not as easy as it sounds. Have you ever found that you have fallen out of love with your camera? Or ever feel like…
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There’s a song about Kodachrome that an older gentleman reminded me of the other day. To that generation, the way Kodachrome looked gave them joy. To us, we just want some good, cheap film. Film obviously has a look digital can’t truly mimic, and it will never be able to mimic the experience. Let’s put…
