written by Beckie of beckiegkengle.com In my opinion, light is the most important part of photography! I prefer to shoot with natural light, so sometimes it can be difficult to find the best light! I have used external flashes and strobes, and while they can really make an image extraordinary, there’s just something special about […]
Archives for October 2012
Compare Photos in Lightroom 4 With Survey View
October 29, 2012 by 3 Comments
Post written by Andrea Thomas of Speechless Photography. Hello, my name is Andrea and I’m a chronic over shooter. I used to agonize over culling the 20 or so nearly identical photos I had of each pose from a session. Is this one better or that one? I like dad’s smile in this one, but […]
September’s “PRIME: Focus on You” Event!
October 24, 2012 by 11 Comments
this post written by Beckie of www.beckiegkengle.com In September, I had the opportunity to attend/help out at the “PRIME: Focus on You” workshop! I’m not really a fan of flying, but I made the trek from Northern California all the way down to South Carolina for the long weekend, because Amanda had asked me to […]
Tips for Sharper Images: Part 1
October 19, 2012 by 15 Comments
The following post is by Andrea Thomas of Speechless Photography Recently I received a great question from Rebecca regarding her Canon 5D Mark II. Rebecca says, “I have a Canon 5D MKII which I have owned for about a year and a half now. I have always had difficulty getting sharp images with it, even […]
Photoshop Elements 11 Giveaway
October 17, 2012 by 351 Comments
Photoshop Elements 11 Now Available When Photoshop Elements 11 was released last month, it created a bit of a stir with the major changes Adobe implemented. I wrote a review of the program, along with a video tour of the “expert” (old Full Edit) mode. If you missed the review, you can read it by clicking here. […]
Action Edit “Baby Clean”
October 10, 2012 by 10 Comments
this post written by Beckie of www.beckiegkengle.com I wanted to show you my step-by-step workflow using the “Baby Clean” (and a few others) action from the Everyday Elements “Everyday Essentials” action set. I edited this image in Photoshop CS5. (tech info for those interested, I shot this on my D700 and 50mm f/1.4 at ISO […]
A list of my favorite iPhone apps
October 3, 2012 by 17 Comments
written by Beckie of beckiegkengle.com I have a serious addiction to photography apps on my iPhone (I have like 30+ camera/editing apps)! There are SO many different ones, how do you know which ones are the best? Here’s a list of a few of my favorites (some non-photography apps too) and why I like them! […]
How to Brighten Shadows in Photoshop Elements
October 1, 2012 by 4 Comments
A recent question I was asked on Facebook was how to brighten shadows in a picture. I thought that would make for a great blog tutorial, so here we go! I am tackling the shadow issue from two directions – a jpg image and a raw image. JPG Images: As always with Photoshop and Photoshop […]
