I would like to thank all my visitors to my website. I hope you are enjoying the new design. The blog templates need a little fine tuning, but most of the functionality should be there. In this post, I’m going to experiment with a new way of delivering tutorials to you … Video. I like [...]

The wonderful folks at I Heart Faces has a weekly feature called Fix-it-Friday. Its a great opportunity to work on your post-processing skills and show off what you can do making a photo better. This week’s photo is pretty good as is. The “Rule of Thirds” was followed. It’s making use of an interesting frame. [...]

Of course I can’t take credit for this. I learned it from another photographer and I know others who use it as well. The best way to color correct is of course to use a calibrated monitor, color management, but for many, color management is overly complex. Since we don’t all have calibrated monitors and [...]

This week I had the honor to be the photo judge for a photo blog called I Heart Faces (http://iheartfaces.blogspot.com/), a blog dedicated to portraiture.  This week’s theme was “Wonder” and after sifting through nearly 400 photos in both an adult and kid’s category, the top ten in each category was selected and the winners [...]

Part 2 of a 2 part series. In part 1, we learned multiple ways to convert a color digital photo to black and white.  But frequently that result isn’t good enough. Images frequently, such as our sample, have a very flat contrast.  That is, there are not a lot of black blacks and not a [...]

Part 1 of 2 Part Series I’ve been writing these tutorials for a few posts now and a lot of time the inspiration for a post comes from a question that may have been asked in the Raleigh Flickr groups or something I’ve seen while traveling. This tutorial comes to you courtesy of @dclay3521 who [...]

Learn how to use Textures to make interesting works of art from your digital photos.

Okay, so I hate myself for not taking my camera. But you know, I can do some cool things with Photoshop. But first let me say….. As a professional photojournalist, what I did above is very unethical. This is not a photo, but a photo illustration. I would never attempt to pass this off as [...]