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Product Preview: By John Virata

An afternoon of fun, NFL football, and the Canon 7D DSLR
Great location for some action shooting

This past weekend we were able to spend an afternoon with the Canon folks at the San Diego Chargers/Philadelphia Eagles NFL football game in beautiful San Diego California to attain some first impressions on the new Canon 7D DSLR. Canon invited several journalists to shoot with the Canon 7D and Digital Rebel T1i. Read More

Ever had the problem where you have a picture on your computer and then print it out and the color doesn't turn out the same? I can tell you from experience that that has happened to me many times before. But now I don't have to worry about this problem thanks to ColorMunki Photo by X-Rite. ColorMunki lets you calibrate displays, projectors and printers so that the colors in your pictures or media are accurate every time. Read More

Product Review: By Robert Jensen

Honl Light Modifiers

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best. That 'keep it simple' ideology is what led photojournalist David Honl to develop a versatile, easy to carry, line of light modifiers for your hot shoe flash that simply mount to a strap that wraps around the front of the flash head. No muss, no fuss. Read More

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motion504 Invents Kinetic Type for AICP Minnesota Show Reception Sponsor Reel

Minneapolis broadcast design & animation studio motion504 recently completed the reception sponsor reel for the Minneapolis screening of the AICP Show: The Art & Technique of the American Commercial, which takes place tonight at the Guthrie Theater. Read More

Product Review: By Robert Jensen

Ray Flash hot shoe flash ring-light adapter

Designed to work with several on camera hot shoe flashes from Nikon and Canon, the Ray Flash ring light adapter is much more affordable, and portable, than the typical ring light made for studio strobe use. Read More

Product Review: By Robert Jensen

Lens Align Pro Focus Calibration System and Long Ruler Kit

Most people who take photographs using a Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera buy a camera body, a lens or two, and shoot away, happy with their results. However, some people are not so happy. If you've been around the various camera forums on the Internet you've read countless postings over the years by less than happy owners of Brand X or Brand Y camera's stating that it was consistently focusing in front of, or behind, where it should be. Read More

Product Review: By Robert Jensen

Mecablitz 58 AF-1 Digital flash

Metz (or Mecablitz) may be an unfamiliar name to a lot of you but for many decades its been the workhorse flash for a lot of pro photographers around the world. Metz is made in Germany and marketed in the US by Bogen Imaging Inc. Read More

Product Review: By John Virata

First Look: Photo Mechanic 4.6.1

Photo Mechanic is an image management and organization tool that helps you to speed up the process of viewing and culling your digital images. The application is not an image editor, but rather, it helps you to better view your digital images and then organize and apply keyword and other text information to them to help keep your image collections manageable. The application is super fast, and enables you to quickly scroll through and manage a lot of images. Read More

Video-Based Tutorial: By Chris Orwig

Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: Bridge Interface

In this clip, Lynda.com host Chris Orwig covers the Adobe Bridge interface, where everything is located, some of the more imoportant aspects and features of the Bridge interface. This is just an introduction of Bridge. he details all the tools available to help navigate Bridge, including taskbars, workspace buttons, previews, search, filtering, sort, rotate, and more. Read More

Video-Based Tutorial: By Chris Orwig

Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: Discarding and editing your images

In this clip, Lynda.com host Chris Orwig discusses how you can rate and rank your photogprahs, and how to sort through your images and know which ones to keep and which ones to hold onto. Discarding images can become overwhelming, and he explains this, and how to overcome it, what you want to do, how to narrow your images down from the mass of images. Read More

Video-Based Tutorial: By Chris Orwig

Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: Advanced and Cache tabs

In this clip, Lynda.com host Chris Orwig talks about Advanced and Cache tabs. He suggests to select start Bridge at Login so you can access it when you need in when you fire up your computer. He then details what the Cache is and what it does, and covers the options, Location, and cache size. Read More

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