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Recently, the The Chris and I were lucky enough to travel to Seattle to represent our company at a conference we sponsor. Though officially we were there to attend and throw a party for the conference, we were able to spend a bit of time shooting the beautiful city of Seattle. Despite our worries leading up to the trip, Seattle greeted us with awesome weather, making the trip that much better. In fact, I was told by some locals that the "it always rains in Seattle thing" is a rumor they make up to keep the crowds from moving to their awesome city.
Being that it was our first time visiting, we squeezed as much as we could into the short period of time we had available to shoot. For me, the favorites of the trip included the Seattle Waterfront, the legendary Pike Place Market and the wonderful food. Read on to see the shots and learn a bit about Seattle…
Continue reading ‘On Location: Seattle’
The long awaited 1.1 update to Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom is now available. New features include enhanced image management controls for workflows, improved noise reduction and sharpening tools, vista compatibility and additional camera support for the Canon 1D Mark III, Nikon D40x and more.
Finally, I’m back with part 2 of our “Ultimate Guide” where I will begin to break down three different kit suggestions spanning three different affordability levels. Originally, I planned on presenting all three kit options in one post, but due to the ongoing harassment 
from readers to get Part 2 posted as well as the surprising amount of time it takes to put these posts together, I decided to go ahead with the post to include only the first of the three kits, focusing on a low price range option to start. To make sure everyone has a good fix of CameraPorn, I’ll include a list of the items to be included in the next two posts. Parts 2 and 3 will focus on a mid-range and high-range priced photo kits. If you havent read “Part 1: Getting Prepared” we suggest taking a look before continuing.
Before I begin, I will again reiterate that no one, not even the gear-obsessed wackos that run this site would expect the average DSLR newbie to buy everything we suggest for a kit all at once. What I’m suggesting are well rounded kit options that contain items that cover the needs of most hobbyist photographers. In reality, all you need to get started is a camera, a memory card and one lens. You will also notice, all the cameras and lenses are from Canon. There are off-brand lenses such as Sigma and Tamron that offer quality and sometimes lower-cost alternatives to what I will be mentioning below, but what can I say, I’m a brand-whore. No, but seriously, aside from off-brand lenses Canon is not your only option. Nikon offers perfectly suitable alternatives to the DSLRs and lenses below at similar price points, but personally I love and use Canon gear, so thats what I’ll be suggesting.
Continue reading ‘The Ultimate Guide - Part 2: Getting Equipped - The Po’ Man’s Dream Kit’
The Nycgraphix blog has published a nice article containing some great tips and shortcuts for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, my favorite image retouching and organization tool. Worth a read if you’re into speeding up your Lightroom workflow and mastering this powerful software.
Our friends over at Automattic have taken over the hosting for the Flickr blog, which is now running Wordpress. Congrats all around guys!
From our friends over at the Crunchboard, it looks like a new online photography venture needs a new CEO. If you think you have what it takes, hit these guys up!
According to the wonderful folks at TechCrunch, Flickr has gone multi-lingual and now supports French, German, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese.
Read about it on TechCrunch or on the Flickr Blog
TechCrunch also mentions that Video uploading will be coming soon…not sure how I feel about that one, but I’m sure Flickr will do it up right!
Canon’s Director of Media and Customer Relationships has posted his always educational Tech Tips for June. This month, Chuck covers a lot of ground, including ISO concerns, CF card write speeds and more.
This past week, the CameraPorn crew was lucky enough to get permission to shoot the performances of Writtenhouse and the Eric Mcfadden Trio at the Viper Room in Hollywood. Being that it was our first opportunity to shoot a concert, I thought it might be valuable to share my experience and methods, and some of the hot photos.
Continue reading ‘Concert Photography ain’t easy but it sure is fun’
L7foto has posted a short, but informative article explaining circular polarizer and neutral density filters along with some sample images. If you are like many others new to the photo game, this could provide you with some valuable explanation on two of the most popular types of lens filters.
