Today I chat with Clive Copeman, an amazing photographer from New Zealand, who I've teamed up with to bring you the Southern New Zealand Photo Adventure in April 2012. We walk you through the amazing itinerary that Clive has put together for what has shaped up to be...
Today we're going to take a look at the five winning images from the October assignment on the theme of "Hands". It was great to see a better turn out for our assignment this month! Let's continue to try and get involved if you don't already. The more people actually...
After a bit of a roller-coaster summer where I found that I had a brain tumor, had some pretty scary surgery and then spent the last four months or so getting my strength back, last Sunday marked my full return to being a working photographer with a location portrait...
I've just started to use an Airport Security™ V 2.0 Rolling Camera Bag from ThinkTank Photo, and decided to do a "What's in my Camera Bag?" style review, at the same time as talking about the bag itself. This will be a "What's in the Bag?" for Martin Bailey the...
When I signed up for my first winter Photography Tour with Yoshiaki Kobayashi (小林 義明) to join him in Eastern Hokkaido in February 2004, there were two things that I was not aware of. The first is that it would change my life. I instantly fell in love with Eastern...
Today I walk you through the updated Color Efex Pro 4 from Nik Software. As you'll see, this gives you amazing control over the look of your images, and I only touch the surface with regards to the available filters. I owned Color Efex Pro 3, as part of the Complete...
This is actually Chris Marquardt's Tips from the Top Floor, episode 524. Today basically I inserted a thirty minute chat between Chris and I as we've teamed up to bring you two new Snow Monkey and Hokkaido Winter Wildlife Wonderland Tours. I've recently asked Chris to...
Today we're going to take a look at the September 2011 MBP Assignment Winners, on the theme of Before/After. There were very few entrants for this assignment, hopefully because it was so hard, but I do want to urge any of you that sit on the fence as to whether or not...
Today I had the pleasure of chatting to a good friend of mine, Graham Morgan, an amazing photographer from Sussex Inlet, Australia, and we recorded the chat to share with you. I kind of take being able to communicate with Graham for granted, because we've been friends...
At the start of June 2010, about 10 days after I got my iPad, I released Episode 246 about the iPad for the Photographer. At the time, I spoke about a bunch of apps that I had sought out and started to use, from a photographer's perspective. Last week I got an email...
Here's a time lapse video made with frames shot every three seconds, as I put together a 13x26" Gallery Wrap using Breathing Color's Easy Wrappe Pro 1.75 system. I also spent the time this week to learn how to make a Motion Graphics intro with Adobe After Effects....
This week I've had the absolute pleasure of being able to test and review a Drobo, which as most of you already know is an external storage device that takes multiple hard drives, even of different size and creates one or more large volumes or drives with redundancy...
