Digital Photography

My favorite photo hosting site, SmugMug, has integrated with Lightroom 3 that will make it easier than ever to import, organize, edit and publish your photos to SmugMug.
I haven’t tested this yet, but it sounds like a great new feature. If you’re a Lightroom 3 user and aren’t using SmugMug, now is is great ... read more
September 2, 2010 in News by Thomas Boyd

Steve Jobs announced during Apple’s new product announcement that iOS 4.1 (which we’re expecting today) brings HDR photography to Apple’s mobile platform.
HDR is a technique of taking several photos of varying exposures and combining them together in order to create a photo with a greater range of tonal detail. There are numerous apps that can ... read more
September 1, 2010 in News by David Schloss

The good folks over at NASA have taken a “giant leap” in image sharing by making their image archive collection available on Flickr. The image-sharing website has long hosted historic image collections in a section call The Commons and the NASA on the Commons section contains an astounding array of historical photos.
The entire archive isn’t ... read more
August 31, 2010 in News by David Schloss

We’re sure you’ve read the announcement from Canon’s team last week announcing a massive 120 megapixel sensor, well this week the technicians at team Canon have announced the biggest ever CMOS sensor, measuring 202×205 mm – that’s round 8 inches square; making this sensor roughly around 40 times larger than the sensor currently found in ... read more
August 31, 2010 in News by Joanne Carter

Vancouver based Beanheads Consulting Inc. today announces Sort Shots – iPad Edition 2.0. Sort Shots – iPad Edition utilizes metadata/EXIF information from photos for easy image searching. Easily import keywords from Adobe Bridge and Lightroom, Apple iPhoto, Nik Software/Nikon NX2, Microsoft Expression Media. Update your keywords and export the images with the keywords to Adobe ... read more
August 30, 2010 in News by Joanne Carter

Voitgländer has announced the production of new lenses for the MicroFourThirds system. The first lens to be unveiled is the new Nokton 25mm f/0.95 lens. This lens has been designed for MFT and you don’t need to use any adapter! This is a manual focus lens and is expected to be $1000 with availability by ... read more
August 30, 2010 in News by Joanne Carter

No secret is safe anymore including the latest cameras coming from Olympus, that’s if 42rumors.com are to be believed and it certainly looks pretty believable.The new E-P2 kit + 2 new MicroFourThirds lenses will be announced tomorrow August 311) The new E-P2 kit with black 17mm lens and black external flash.
There will ... read more
August 30, 2010 in News by Joanne Carter

Our good friend Joe McNally has a nice blog post about long-lens portrait work with the moon as a backdrop. Joe never ceases to amaze me with his portrait work, and the fact that he’s doing moonlight shots where the actual moon is a major part without multiple exposures, well that’s just great.
Jump on over ... read more
August 29, 2010 in News by David Schloss

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August 27, 2010 in News by David Schloss

Nik Software has officially announced HDR Efex Pro, the latest addition to our digital photographic tools. Scheduled to release in October 2010, HDR Efex Pro will retail for $159.95. Mac Create readers receive a discount on this title and all Nik software by using the code AUN4Nik at checkout.You can find out more about the product and ... read more
August 26, 2010 in News by David Schloss

CANON’S NEW EOS 60D DIGITAL SLR CAMERA
UNLEASHES THE CREATIVE POTENTIAL OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
AND EOS FULL HD VIDEO WITH NEW IN-CAMERA IMAGING FEATURESNew EOS 60D Offers a Vari-Angle LCD Screen, EOS Full HD Video Recording, In-Camera RAW Processing and Creative Filters and 18-Megapixel Resolution Among Class-Leading SpecsLAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., August 26, 2010 – High-quality digital capture ... read more
August 26, 2010 in News by David Schloss

Sorry for the late notice, but we just found out that Sports Illustrated shooter, Aperture-user and MacCreate friend Bill Frakes will be doing two upcoming seminars on Nikon D-Movie and Multimedia.
The classes are free and you can register for Los Angeles (August 24th) here and for Dallas, TX (August 27th) here. The classes are filling ... read more
August 23, 2010 in News by David Schloss

In addition to the new Nikon D3100 camera, Nikon has also announced four new Nikkor lenses. We had the chance to play with these lenses at a meeting with Nikon and they’re all welcome additions to the Nikkor line.
The superstar lens is the AF-S Nikkor 85mm f/1.4G, priced at $1699. We compared this lens to ... read more
August 19, 2010 in News by David Schloss

Nikon has officially announced the D3100, and update to the D3000 camera design that adds full HD video and numerous other advancements to the already popular D3000.
Recently we had a chance to sit down with Nikon to look at the D3100 and it’s an impressive little camera. The new EXPEED 2 image processing engine should ... read more
August 19, 2010 in News by David Schloss

Nikon UK announces ViewNX 2, a comprehensive new version of its popular bundled software package that enables users to easily import, browse, edit and share images and D-movies.
Building upon the successful ViewNX software, ViewNX 2 is a feature-packed, user-friendly suite supplied with Nikon digital cameras and available for download. The software now offers a ... read more
August 18, 2010 in News by Joanne Carter