Photography Minute

Metadata and your Photos

A recent podcast by Derrick Story podcast, titled “Mark Your Photos“, talks about adding metadata to your photos to ensure you’ve got your copyright info and other data (exif, etc) embedded in them. This is a great tip that a lot of beginning photographers don’t think about. While you may only be taking photographs of your [...]

Richard Earney’s Inside Lightroom 2 Book Review

I’ve read a few books on Lightroom 2 and found most lacking. While not lacking much Richard Earney’s Inside Lightroom 2: The serious photographer’s guide to Lightroom efficiency, there are some deficiencies that cause me to prefer Scott Kelby’s Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter) book slightly over this one. While [...]

Scott Kelby’s Lightroom 2 for Digital Photographers Book Review

I’ve been walking reading and using Scott Kelby’s  The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers and am amazed at how easy Kelby makes things seem. The book is the ONLY book I’d recommend for Lightroom 2.  It walks you through everything you’ll ever need to use in Lightroom 2 and provides screenshots for darn [...]

From a Snapshot to a Photograph

I’ve talked about the difference between a snapshot and a photograph before (here and on EricBrown.com here and here). I still take snapshots for the most part but I’m learning.  I’m also learning that I can take a regular snapshot and, using tools like Adobe Photoshop CS4 as well as Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 , I [...]

Dallas Blooms – More photos

Just uploaded a few new Dallas Blooms photos from last month….did a little playing in photoshop with actions, selective color and other fun tools.  I’m learning Adobe Photoshop CS4 as well as Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 and all the things a person can do with these great tools. If you want to view more of my [...]

Camera Dojo releases Monochrome Lightroom Presets

Camera Dojo has announced the release of a Adobe Lightroom Monochrome Tools Preset compilation. The announcement: We are very excited to announce the release of our new preset pack for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom called Dojo Monochrome Tools. This new set is designed to cover most of your B&W and Monochrome needs. With 27 different presets to choose [...]

My Digital Workflow – an intro

I’ve been tweaking my workflow over the last few weeks and think I’ve got a good system.  That said, I am not a pro and am probably missing A LOT of things…but this is working for me right now. Here’s my workflow right now. I take my card from the camera and drop it into my reader. Import [...]