You May Think It’s New, but it’s Not: Layering
Occasionally, someone will look at my images and ask, “Are these Photoshopped?” I take this to mean, how much has the image been manipulated. I often answer that I use Photoshop and Adobe Camera Raw to process my images and leave it at that. Part of using Photoshop in...
Clubhouse for Photographers: Social Media as We Know It is About to Change
Many photographers have had the same reaction that I did upon hearing about yet another new social media app hitting the radar: a yawn and a roll of the eyes. We have seen countless apps and image-sharing sites emerge with fanfare and then fail to gain traction...
Artists That Inspire: Albert Bierstadt
Welcome to the latest in my semi-regular series of blog posts about artists that inspire me. As a photographer, I’m fascinated with how landscape artists of different media (in this case, paint) approach light; I feel that by analyzing and appreciating other...
How To Photograph Sand Dunes
One of my favorite subjects when it comes to landscape photography is photographing sand dunes. The variety and the uniqueness of dunes make it a great subject to photograph. When it comes to images of dunes that resonate with viewers, the following vital...
BUILDING A CUSTOM PC FOR PHOTO AND VIDEO EDITING
Why would you want to build your own PC and why did a life long Apple user like myself build a custom PC? There are several excellent benefits to building your own custom PC. The cost to performance ratio is significantly better if you build a PC yourself. You can...
Where It All Started – Early Exposure to Photography
When people ask me where and when photography started for me, the answer has pretty much been in the early 2000’s I started to hike and spend a lot more time outdoors and it progressed from there. My interest in photography grew with the connection and desire to...
Select Sky: Useful New Photoshop Feature That Has Gone Under The Radar
In October 2020, Adobe released a bunch of updates to Photoshop, one of which is the Sky Replacement feature. If you want to replace skies in your images, this tool makes it really easy.A lot of people have already done tutorials on how it works. I generally don’t...
Photo Cascadia’s Year In Images 2020!
Another year come and gone, and this one has been…well, you know. No one on Earth has been untouched by the events of 2020. Each year the Photo Cascadia Team puts together a video revisiting the photographs, adventures and team antics that made the year...
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