High dynamic range (HDR) photography has been around through film and digital technologies and whether you are attracted or repelled by the outcome of its application, it’s definitely here to stay. Some newer digital cameras are even starting to have HDR built right in to let you see what multiple images will look like before [...]
As an Adobe certified expert, and not one to be caught off guard, instructor David Marx has been hard at work putting together video tutorials and a blog article to describe the latest changes Adobe has made to their fantastic Lightroom© software which was just released in beta version. He was kind enough to share [...]
As many of our Career Training graduates can attest, if there is one thing that RMSP Founder and Owner Neil Chaput de Saintonge loves to do, it’s talk about photo equipment. He has been helping rookies and pros alike for well over 20 years with their equipment questions. So today’s post should come as no [...]
Just last month, RMSP held our first ever Landscapes & Lightroom in Big Sky, Montana workshop. Instructors David Marx and Doug Johnson gave the participants “the ol’ one-two” with their expertise in both landscape photography and the powerful digital imaging software program, Adobe Lightroom. David posted the students’ concluding slideshow on his blog, The Lightroom [...]
For any of us who make it our business to keep up with the constantly changing tsunami of information regarding digital imaging, credible resources on the topic become essential for research and advisement purposes. The question quickly becomes who to trust amongst the din of fact, opinion and rumor. One such trustworthy voice “out there” [...]
The whole vernacular of Twitter – tweet, tweeting, tweeted, etc. – denotes some kind of bird language gone suddenly viral. What the heck is Twitter? Why use it? What has it contributed to society at large? How can it help with connecting, inspiring or even doing business? As a primer, here is a great introduction [...]
Last week the Lytro Camera was announced. This camera introduces a revolutionary sensor technology that gives photographers the ability capture the “light field” in a scene and focus after the fact. This, of course, is in the place of the current sensor technology which only allows you to capture the scene based on the focus [...]
I am learning how the techniques for making better B&W film photographs have direct application to my digital B&W images as well, which is a great way to retain the heritage of previous knowledge as technology changes. Not surprising, though, since light is light regardless of the tools we use. For years I didn’t quite [...]
For those of you who don’t know, a couple of weeks ago RMSP had an open house. We invited the general public into our facilities, gave them a look around and invited them to experience our educational style for a few hours. I gave a lecture on how to choose image editing software. Everyone in [...]
Because we are currently living in an age in which our photographs are simply stored as code that our cameras and computers can read, we need to ensure that we don’t loose our artwork due to a hardware failure or accident. I tell people (not to scare you) that EVERY computer hard drive WILL fail [...]
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