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12 Photographers Share Their Top 5 Influences

I talk about my top five photographic influences with Jeff Larason (The Crit House).

It’s always useful to be familiar with a host’s sensibilities, so check out Jeff Larason’s Top 5.

 

At The Crit House, Jeff Larason has been hosting a fascinating series of videos in which photographers share their Top 5 Influences and the reasons why.

They’re informative and inspiring!

There are over 100 videos to choose from.

I’ve cherry-picked a dozen highlights for you.

Sam Abell 

David Duchemin

Cig Harvey

Brooks Jensen

Ed Kashi

Sara Leen

Rania Matar

Arthur Meyerson

Daniel Milnor

Eugene Richards

Aline Smithson

Nevada Weir

Laura Wilson

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Colin Smith Details How To Use Lightroom & Photoshop’s New Landscape Masks

Colin Smith (PhotoshopCafe) details “How to use Landscape masks in Photoshop ACR and Lightroom. Make awesome edits on landscape photos easily and quickly to make them pop in Lightroom and ACR.”

Find out more from Colin Smith at Photoshop Cafe.

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Join Me For My Free Artist Talk Online Aug 15 @ 08:30 PM

Landscapes Within Landscapes & Process

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Enjoy an evening of pure inspiration as artist/photographer/writer John Paul Caponigro illuminates his creative process – not just where and how, but also why.

John Paul will show how he creates synergy between the diverse disciplines of drawing, photography, and writing, detailing how process influences perception – that ways of seeing lead to ways of being.

He’ll share sublime moments in locations around the world, circling behind an Icelandic waterfall, floating through an Antarctic iceberg graveyard, walking in the sky on a Bolivian salt flat, and flying like a bird over the Namibian coral dunes.

Finally, he’ll offer proof of how images of nature improve health. Like he does, you may conclude that we are not apart from nature but a part of Nature.

We’ll finish with a lively Q&A session.

Reserve your space for this special event now – space is limited.

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About John Paul Caponigro

A form of environmental art in virtual space, John Paul Caponigro’s works are about the nature of perception and the perception of nature.

Exhibited internationally, his works have been purchased by private and public collections, including The Smithsonian, Princeton University, and The Estee Lauder Collection.

John Paul is a pioneer among visual artists working with digital media. He consults with the corporations that build the tools he uses, including Adobe, Apple, Canon, Kodak, and Sony. A member of the Photoshop Hall of Fame, Epson’s Stylus Pros, and X-Rite’s Coloratti, his images have been published widely in periodicals and books, including Art News and The Ansel Adams Guide.

Author of the video training series R/Evolution and the book Adobe Photoshop Master Class, for over twenty years, he has been a contributing editor to a variety of magazines and websites, including Camera Arts, Digital Photo Pro, The Huffington Post, and Apple. His creative nonfiction and poetry have been published in over 75 literary journals, in 17 countries, on 5 continents.

A highly sought-after speaker (Apple, Microsoft, MIT), teaching thousands in workshops and tens of thousands in lectures, he leads unique adventures in the wildest places on earth to help participants creatively make deeper connections with nature and themselves. Get a taste of what he does in his Google and TEDx talks.

Learn more – visit www.johnpaulcaponigro.art.

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New Adobe Camera App Just Broke The Rules + Photoshop Cafe’s User Guide

Adobe Project Indigo Explained

Learn what Project Indigo is and how it works, discover all the features, and see real examples of photos compared with the iPhone camera app. Create the most realistic-looking photos from a free smartphone app.

How to use Project Indigo

Adobe’s new iPhone camera app. Colin Smith created a no-nonsense user guide. Learn how to take photos with the new Adobe phone app.

 

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Single Image Enhance – Denoise, Raw Details, and Super Resolution

“In this video, Julieanne demonstrates how to apply Denoise, Raw Details, and Super Resolution to your photographs nondestructively in Lightroom Classic. This technology update provides additional flexibility when editing and reduces the use of disk space as well as the number of files that need to be managed.”

Learn more from Julianne Kost here.

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Point Color & Color Variance In Adobe Camera Raw

“In this video, Julieanne demonstrates the Point Color controls in Adobe Camera Raw, including the new Variance slider, offering simple yet powerful control over color contrast. You’ll learn how to accentuate or diminish specific color ranges—either globally or selectively using masking.”

Learn more from Julianne Kost here.

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Ten Exciting Enhancements To Photoshop 2025

“In this video, Julieanne demonstrates ten recent enhancements made to Photoshop including updates to Select Subject & Remove Background, the Gradient tool, Fonts & Type, Generative Fill & Generative Workspace, the Adjustment Brush, Remove tool and more!”

Learn more from Julianne Kost here.

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The Sense Of Time – A Conversation With Sheila Metzner – Dec 10 @ 8 pm EST

The Sense Of Time

Wednesday, Dec 10 @ 8pm EST

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Creativity Continues at Santa Fe Workshops with The Sense Of Time, a conversation between Shiela Metzner and John Paul Caponigro.

An icon in both fashion and fine art photography, whether she makes portraits, still lifes, or landscapes Sheila’s offers captivating sensual experiences, marked for their muted colors, soft focus, and rich textural grain. Both timeless and contemporary, echoing other art forms, her photographs have become a part of and are haunted by the history of photography.

Our hour of inspiration will begin with a short presentation of images by Shiela.

Next, Sheila and John Paul will discuss how time unfolds in still images, intermingling with our other senses, and may even be a sixth sense.

Finally, we’ll finish with a lively question-and-answer session open to all participants.

Join Santa Fe Workshops’ worldwide community of photographers and writers as Creativity Continues.

 

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Sheila Metzner (b. 1939, Brooklyn, NY) attended Pratt Institute, where she majored in Visual Communications, and was later hired by Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising agency as its first female art director. She has worked in photography ever since, creating work that has been displayed in gallery exhibitions and for commercial clients. Metzner is well known for using the Fresson printing process, a rare method of color printing developed in France in 1895 and continued by the family’s descendants. Metzner is just one of ten U.S. photographers they have chosen to collaborate with.

Metzner has created commercial photography for Vogue, Elizabeth Arden, Perry Ellis, Shiseido, Saks Fifth Avenue, Paloma Picasso, Victoria’s Secret, Levi’s, and Ralph Lauren, among others. She has published four monographs: Objects of Desire (1986), Sheila Metzner’s Color (1991), Inherit the Earth (2000), and Form and Fashion (2001). She was awarded the International Center of Photography Infinity Award and the 1987 Best Print Advertising Campaign Award from the Fragrance Foundation. Her work is featured in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the International Center of Photography, and the Getty among others. She exhibits nationally at Fahey/Klein in Los Angeles, Staley Wise in New York, and internationally with Carla Sozzani in Milan.

Hot Features In The New Lightoom 2025 Update

“The June 2025 update of Lightroom, brings mostly features we have seen before in ACR and beta releases, but brings them to Lightroom and implements them nicely into a finished release. There are a couple of things that we haven’t seen.”

Auto Remove People, Reflection Removal, AI Denoise, and Super Resolution are the big hits.

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