Farewell Palm Springs – Hello Santa Barbara

Farewell Palm Springs – Hello Santa Barbara

A great photography event ends and I’m off to the current middle ages The Palm Springs Photo Festival is over… This years festival was spectacular and I managed to break away on a little Photo Safari with Elaine Ling to Joshua Tree national Park. We had a...
Greetings from the Palm Springs Photo Festival

Greetings from the Palm Springs Photo Festival

Scenes from the festival captured with the new Fuji X-100 camera Hello everyone – I’m writing this blog post from Palm Springs. I’m here for the week at the Palm Springs Photo Festival ( details at the website.) If you don’t get a chance to go...

Luminosity Blending – 2

Lightening Dark Skin with Red Channel Luminosity This step-by-step video tutorial was part of a presentation I made to the Tucson Photography Meetup Group in February. It corresponds to an earlier blog post in text form you can find here… the tutorial shows the...

The Top Ten Digital Photography Books

and why you should read them… 1. Professional Photoshop: The Classic Guide to Color Correction (5th Edition) by Dan Margulis The best book on color correction, period… Color is often the most difficult issue for photographers. Dan has been the authority on...

Luminosity Blending – 1

Color to B&W and back This is a video step-by-step that corresponds to an earlier blog post on the same subject which you can find here. I go through the same steps in this video so you can see exactly what I’m doing… LuminosityBlending-1 from Lee...