http://www.adorama.com/alc/expert/235 Pro Photographer and HDRI Guru <p><span style="font-size: small;">If you are a new parent or are looking for a great photographic gift for friends or family with a new arrival, here are some gift ideas that won&rsquo;t break the bank but will help you make better baby pictures. </span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/12796 Sigma’s SD15 SLR might not have live view, HD video, or a gazillion scene assist modes, and for some, that might be just the right combination of lack-of-features. What it does have is great low ISO i http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12779 <p>Go ahead, give Jack your honest opinion about this IR+visible spectrum shot taken with the Sigma SD15 with its IR Cut filter removed!</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/12768 As much as I love traveling and exploring brand-new locations, there's something amazing about revisiting certain spots again and again to challenge yourself to grow as a photographer. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12761 How amazing is this? The new Lensbaby ballhead mount for micro four thirds and Sony NEX cameras accepts the Lensbaby Composer Focus Front element along with pretty much every Nikon lens ever made for http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12730 How cool is this? Check out what happens at 4:37 when concert photographer David Bergman gives AdoramaPix photo books to the boys in the band before their recent show at the new Meadowlands Stadium! http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12718 There must be something innate in the photographic process that engenders passionate discourse. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12714 I'm wondering if it's time for a new computer as I spend more time working on video projects. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12693 I'm filling in for the vacationing Mason Resnick on the Newsdesk this week. Mason may be taking it slow, but there's a lot of big news in the world of photography right now! http://www.adorama.com/alc/news/12692 We’re just a few weeks away from the biennial gadget-palooza that is Photokina, and we’re sure lots of new cameras being announced will list HDMI ports in the feature set, or be dinged by gadget blogg http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12677 A few days ago, my neighbor, Eddie, invited me to go kayaking at a local lake on a very hot morning. I jumped at the chance and grabbed my river shorts, shoes, sunscreen, and we headed up to Round Val http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12663 We've been there too: sitting on the tarmac in a ground delay, leafing through Skymall and dreaming of importing all your classic vinyl records into iTunes. The great news is that is has never been ea http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12654 Every photographer has, at one time or another, missed a shot due to the combination of operator error and system limitations. Back in the days of film canisters, one of the most unwelcome sounds of a http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12644 The new Lumix cameras shoot RAW and allow for Auto Exposure Bracketing for three shots at up to 3 full EV spacings between each shot. As experienced HDRI photographers know, wider bracketing to captur http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12640 Like photography, baking and music both also require a degree of technical and aesthetic know-how. But which metaphor would you use to describe your photography style? http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12633 Sometimes it is tough to unlearn and replace certain workflows and workpaths until a new challenge arises. The need to quickly resample close to 6,000 JPEGs helped me see Adobe's LR3 in a whole new li http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12623 Image-based search isn't brand new, nor is image usage monitoring, but what is new about the ImageRights model is that it is free for photographers for up to 10,000 images. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12613 We here at the the Adorama Learning Center have long been big fans of DxOMark's RAW camera sensor tests and are very excited to now see lens ratings added to the mix. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12598 <p>As a promotional piece for his book, <a href="http://www.rockynook.com/books/170.html" target="_blank"><strong>Practical HDRI, 2nd Edition</strong></a>, Jack recently gave this hour-long screencast presentation on the great new features for HDRI photography in <a href="../../alc/taginfo/Adobe%20Photoshop%20CS5/article" target="_blank">Adobe Photoshop CS5. </a></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/12599 Whether it's for fifteen members of the local camera club, a webcast to hundreds, or on a trade show floor for thousands, here's some real-world advice from my trials and errors. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12600 Spending some time with the normal zoom lens has rekindled my excitement about this entire class of fast normal zoom lenses. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12592 Guests so far include Sandy Huffaker and Sven Doornkaats. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12583 As part of the promotional campaign for the 2nd Edition of Practical HDRI, Jack Howard, Director of New and Social Media for Adorama Camera will be giving a free hour-long webinar on High Dynamic Rang http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12573 Unauthorized image usage is rampant on the internet, and there has been some discussion that the new Content-Aware Fill function in Adobe Photoshop CS5 may make it too easy to eradicate watermarking. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12562 The "Moment in Time" project orchestrated by the New York Times Lens blog for 15:00 UT on 5/2/2010 wasn't the first time-synced group photo project, but it is certainly one of the biggest and most suc http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12558 One of the more interesting blog postings on Content-Aware Fill was posted recently over at Photoshelter. Several guest commentators, weighed in with thoughts on this new tool in Adobe Photoshop CS5. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12555 In my career as a photographer and photography editor thus far, I've been lucky enough to own, borrow, and/or evaluate tons of different lenses. Here's a short list of some of my favorites. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12532 For the longest time, I'd been meaning to dupe important documents to a small, high capacity external drive to store offsite in my safety deposit box. And I wrote about doing so in January 2nd in a se http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12404 We see terms like JPEG and TIFF every day, and many of us may understand these on certain levels, but how many know the deep differences between data storage methods for a "Joint Photographic Experts http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12391 “Often there wasn’t enough food for the kids,” Ron said. “Not many migrants brought a dog.” http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12390 Today’s launch of Photoshop CS5 is great news for photographers of all stripes. HDRI photographers in particular are going to love the upgrades and improvements for HDR photography. That’s right—CS5. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12456 Almost everyone is on Facebook these days. And now our new Wishlist App lets you share your must-have gear wishes with your Facebooking friends and family. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12439 Grover Sanschagrin of Photoshelter talks with the "Tax Ninja" about issues that may trip up many photographers this tax season. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12429 No one like to think about losing their important documents such as a passport or license while away from home. But having a high-resolution copy, hidden behind a password field can help mitigate the http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12419 Whether you are an experienced photojournalist, a PJ student, or simply a fan of of visual reportage, the Spring 2010 Nieman Reports shares a wealth of information on what's happening now in visual jo http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12414 10 years ago this month, I bought my Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8 L lens. I had to save up for it, and it made things very tight that month, but this lens and the sacrifices it meant to acquire it represente http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12394 Mason Resnick and I spent the day yesterday at the NPPA Northern Short Course XXIX in beautiful downtown New Brunswick, NJ. I last attended an NSC back in 2002 when it was in Cherry Hill, NJ, back in http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12388 Free music from Moby for documentarians, an open-source controller from Super Mario Land, entry-levels SLRs score great in DxOMark tests, and more! http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12381 For the past few years, my good old banged up, high-mileage 8 megapixel Canon EOS 20D with BG-E2 grip has sat, mostly undisturbed by the passage of product cycle after product cycle, in the back of my http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12364 The Think Tank Hydrophobia Flash 70-200 costs much more than a couple of tie-top kitchen trash bags, but it protects your SLR plus 70-200 f/2.8 class of lens, plus shoe-mounted strobe, much, much bett http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12360 Inspiring and amazing time lapse videos on Vimeo have been pushing me to really take the plunge into Timelapse imaging. And the growing subset of time lapse, HDR Time lapse is especially appealing to http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12339 20 years ago, Adobe Photoshop launched. This was before the visual internet, high-speed broadband, iPhones, photo sharing sites, Facebook and more. Digital photography was in its infancy, and photo ma http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12307 Sure, Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended costs a bit more than the non-extended version, but there are some very cool features and functions in the upgrade, including quick and powerful conversion of still http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12289 A modest proposal to update the language of photography to reflect the new now will most definitely save keystrokes for writers, bloggers and copyeditors. Or not. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12278 HDR PhotoStudio is an amazing program for High Dynamic Range Imaging. If you think HDRI is all about–and only about–cartoonish colors and dodgy halo-masking, this program will make you think about it http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12257 Everywhere you look, you see the 16:9 "HD ratio". Got a modern Mac or an HDTV? That's 16:9, as is the HD player in Vimeo, YouTube, and everywhere else. We run through ways to crop to HD in several Ado http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12247 This new report produced by our friends at Photoshelter is filled with great advice for photographers to make the most of marketing themselves and their services on popular social sites including Face http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12244 Affectionately called the "Sigmonster" by fans, this unique supertele zoom gives a lot of reach for dayside sports, wildlife and action photography. Jack and Mason set their sights on wolves, elk, buf http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12234 One of the more interesting photocentric bits to come out of the 2010 CES show in Las Vegas was the news that Sony's new consumer-level compacts are now dual-format for memory, accepting both Sony's p http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12213 Here's a couple of cool things I've come across recently via John Nack's blog. If you're not subscribed to this blog from the one of the lead developers of Adobe Photoshop, you should. John has a grea http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12196 A new online documentary asks a handful of simple questions and captures animated environmental portraits without an excess of the video tricks and styles that are becoming so saturated: no tilt-shift http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12171 I've interviewed 32 photographers for the TechTock podcast in 2009, and our guests have ranged from NASA staffers, to baseball pros, automotive editorial shooters, microstock shooters, to military pho http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12154 Poring through spec sheet after spec sheet while preparing my 2009 HDR All-Stars Buying Guide piece left me sort of puzzled as to why so many cameras are hobbled straight out of the box. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12153 Parts of this post originally appeared in a Guest Blogger segment on Steven Frischling's Flying With Fish blog all about air travel issues for photographers. As we hit a very busy travel time, Jack sh http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12144 The Leica S2 has a large price tag, to be certain, but that large price tag comes with a large sensor, and huge image files. The Learning Center team spends some time with this new ultra-luxe medium f http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12129 As we wind down this year, and get set for the 20-teens, here's a series of polls to take the pulse of what's happening now with photography. Feel free to leave your comments if you disagree with the http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12124 This blog posting is in response to the online blog conversation initiated by Andy Adams and Miki Johnson on the future of Photo Books and the question: What Will Photo Books look like in 2019? I don' http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12121 The two newest members of the Lensbaby Optic swap tribe bring new elements to the Lensbaby experience and are a cool way for photographers to experiment with new techniques in a relatively economical http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12110 "Lightwriting" is different than "Lightpainting" because instead of illuminating an object, you use a small flashlight to "write" directly on your camera sensor. And by capturing the whole alphabet, y http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11976 <p>It&rsquo;s true that you can make great High Dynamic Range Images with almost any camera with full manual controls, but a wide and fast bracket sequence makes it so much easier. These cameras are at the top of the heap for serious HDR photographers.</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/12092 I originally wrote this piece as a guest blogger for our friends over at Techlicious.com, a cool site all about tech gadgets geared towards women. But as holiday gatherings approach, these are great t http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12096 There are some really amazing tools for HDR photographers in Adobe Photoshop CS4, but much of the power of CS4 in 32-bit space isn't well-known. In this two-part screencast series, we'll explore ways http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12076 Casio's first foray into the compact weather, shock and waterproof category is a very stylish model, with some seriously hardcore specs and a G-shock legacy to live up to on durability. But we want to http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12062 It's not that there aren't some amazing tools for HDR photographers in Adobe Photoshop CS4, it's just that these tools and tricks aren't all that well-known. In this two-part screencast series, we'll http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12048 When and where the sun and moon rises and sets can make a world of difference for stunning images. And this freeware program helps you figure it all out! http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12020 Everyone knows a handful of keystroke shortcuts in Adobe Photoshop CS4, such as CMD+Z for Undo, and copy/paste operations, but not too many people realize that just about every command in Photoshop ca http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12000 Lexar is touting 600x (90MB/s) guaranteed minimum sustained write speed on its new top-of-the-line Compact Flash cards and an ExpressCard reader that'll write at up to 866x (133MB/s) for the current c http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11980 A great videojournalism site turns one, Jeff Synder does a guest spot, Art Wolfe talks about Lighting, and an amazing collection posthumously recognizes an amazing Chicago street photographer. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11971 At first glance, the Casio Exilim EX-FS10 doesn’t appear much different from so many other slim cameras on the shelf, but there’s not many other cameras smaller than a deck of playing cards than can c http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11958 Along with the store, the TechTock blog and the Adorama Learning Center are taking a break from this afternoon until Monday, October 12. In the meantime, here's some cool links for rainy (and sunny) d http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11927 A few years back I pitched a massive amount of old film that I'd been hauling around for years. Mind you, I've still got heaps of film lying around in various states of indexing and organization schem http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11923 Sometimes a secondary use for a camera gadget is so brilliant, and so obvious that until you see it, you can't believe you've never thought of it. Originally, these hotshoe to quarter-twenty tripod so http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11900 The just announced 12.4 megapixel Pentax K-x will be available in four color options in the US market. But over on a Pentax Japan site, there's a custom color site for the K-x that shows a heck of a l http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11893 The Pentax K-x, the new entry-level SLR with a 12.4 megapixel sensor-shift APS-C CMOS chip, shares a good bit of digital DNA with the flagship Pentax SLR, the K-7. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11888 I was spellbound watching "Yellowstone: Battle for Life" on Animal Planet recently. It brought back the memories and lessons of my own adventure into this wild place a few winters ago during a blizzar http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11887 The world of photography has been a lot more entertaining since Aaron Johnson's What the Duck comic strip burst onto the scene, pretty much fully hatched, just over three years ago. Yes, yes, it's tru http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11878 Florida-based Kristen Weaver recently launched Images for a Cure, a group fundraiser for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Photographers around the world can get involved and raise money via port http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11876 Maria Sharapova, Andre Agassi, Michael Landon, James Garner, Dick Van Dyke and the Muppets, among many others, have hawked cameras and photo gear through the years. And not all of these commercials ha http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11868 I've traveled with camera gear a good bit over the years, but I've never seen an in-room safe quite as huge as the one at the Grand Hyatt Kauai. If only all hotel safes were so photo-gear friendly. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11845 Let's make this clear: The orbis ring flash is a strobe accessory. It is not itself a light. It modifies the light from your existing small strobe unit meaning it does not have its own internal circui http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11830 Let it be noted that our first ever 24-hour Gaffer Tape Haiku challenge was not without its share of controversies. Protestations of ignorance of the true nature of the haiku form were lodged from Fin http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11833 If you've ever sat and squinted when staring at a laptop monitor while trying to work from the road, you'll appreciate the laptop screen shades from Think Tank and Hoodman. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11826 The prize, of course, is a 30-yard roll of gaffer tape. Share your innermost thoughts about this esteemed photographer's accessory for a chance to walk away with a fresh roll of Adorama's own gaffer t http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11823 Viral marketing via Facebook and twitter have been bringing Pentaxians out to meet with the Pentax team to check out the newest SLR and Pentax glass along the stops on their viral tour. Best part of i http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11821 "Staycation" has been a hot buzzword once again this summer, but we're not quite sure what it means. Is there a time limit? A maximum driving distance? Or is this just some silly mediaspeak that'll se http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11816 It never occurred to us how rare it had become to get home from our travels and print out a few 4x6 shots for a photo album. But the more people we talk to, the more amazed everyone is that we have ac http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11796 I just wrapped up judging the April 2009 clip contest for the Illinois Press Photographer's Assocation, and it got me to thinking about my newspaper days, monthly clips contests, and photo contests in http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11787 Reader questions about a long-lens shot and the telephoto compression phenomenon sparks an interesting conversation over at the LA Times, a paper that hasn't been without its share of true photographi http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11783 A conversation yesterday turned to talk of our first "real" cameras and where these are now. As I've mentioned before, for me it was a Ricoh KR-30SP, and I know exactly where it is. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11772 For years, my trusty Epson Stylus 2200 was my only home printer. It always pained me to use my costsly photo and matte black inks for wholly necessary, but totally pedestrian plain-paper printing task http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11764 The original intent of tilt-shift optics was to correct for perspective problems by allowing the lens elements to go off-parallel with the capture plane. New school shooters have taken swinging optics http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11734 Courage is sometimes saying what many others feel but cannot or will not find the words or means to express. Zack Arias had to courage to create this powerful video. For this, he is to be commended. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11732 A fortune cookie once offered me this sage advice ripped straight from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "Don't Panic." For years, that fortune was taped to my laptop computer. I'm pretty sure 42 http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11720 Does HD video matter to you? Or is weather-toughness critical? Is it best image quality at an affordable price, or is money no object? What matters most for your next DSLR? We want to know! http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11696 Kodak bids farewell to KODACHROME, pro photographer and travel blogger Steven Frisherling gets an edible Nikomat for his birthday and iGoogle can be skinned with themes from legendary photographer Jim http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11695 After much rumor-mongering, brilliant viral campaigns, the Olympus E-P1 has arrived. Building on the 50 year legacy of the original 35mm half-frame PEN camera, the E-P1 is a bold, yet measured, step f http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11680 There's not a pocket camera in market that comes close to the feature set and image quality of the Sigma DP2 for serious High Dynamic Range Imaging, except for its Sigma sibling the DP1. And if you th http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11676 Mockmoon's timelapse videos, shot with still cameras including the Canon EOS 5D Mark II and the Nikon D3 are simply spectacular. I could prattle on for a while about harmonious compositions, the yin-y http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11674 RAW support, straight-to-computer connectivity, and Selective Transfer are key upgrades of the new 4GB Eye-Fi Pro SDHC card. Geotagging through Skyhook Wireless? Of course! Video transfer? Got it, too http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11663 TechTock reader Anthony Dayton asked us for tips on overcoming the problem of his DSLR's built-in flash's evaluative pre-flash for triggering studio strobes while staying wireless. We've got some quic http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11657