Save 12% On NEC Spectraview Monitors

Get 12% off NEC monitors with this discount code JPCPHOTO. I use the NEC PA 272W-SV. 10-bit GB-R LED backlit AH-IPS LCD Internal 14-bit programmable 3D LUTs Wide Gamut – 99.3% of AdobeRGB High resolution Easy on the eye flicker rate Now with lower power...

Lightroom 5 – Smart Previews

Julianne Kost shows how to create lightweight, efficient Smart Previews to work with offline images in Lightroom. View more Lightroom videos here. Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

Advanced Healing Brush & Visualization Tool – Lightroom 5 (&ACR)

Discover the new enhancements to Lightroom’s Advanced Healing Brush including the ability to heal and clone non-circular brush spots as well as remove easy-to-miss sensor dust using the new Visualization tool. View more Lightroom Videos here. Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing...

Lightroom 5 – Radial Filter

Learn how easy it is to apply Lightroom’s selective adjustments including color temperature, exposure, sharpening, noise reduction and more using the new Radial Filter tool. View more Lightroom Videos here. Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.

Why Make Prints ?

This is an excerpt from my article on Digital Photo Pro. Why Make Prints ? Making prints does so many things for your images. How many things? Let me count the ways … They’re … Sensual Prints enhance your images with material qualities and the...

Alumna Kathy Beal Signature™ fine art silk scarves now available!

Alumni Kathy Beal has opened her own signature line of fine art silk scarves featuring her own images. Her online store is now open for business! From http://kathybealsignature.com/ “I’m thrilled to announce that Kathy Beal Signature™ fine art silk scarves is now open for business.  You’ll...

Contact Sheet – Greenland 2013

Click here to enlarge. In reviewing my Greenland 2013 Contact Sheet it’s become even clearer to me that once you get certain kinds of successful shots the bar is raised for your future efforts. There are many good images here. But are they as good...

3 Ways To iPhone HDR

If you’d like to use HDR techniques for your mobile photographs you’ve got choices. Moving from simple and limited to more complex and robust, consider these three: first, the iPhone Camera app’s built in HDR function; second, the app Pro HDR; and third the app...

Controlling Blur FX With Photoshop

Photographers use blur (or bokeh) for a variety of reasons: to enhance space through depth of field; to add interesting visual artifacts; to simplify them; to change the quality of their expression. In the past, blur was controlled almost entirely through exposure; now it can...

Contact Sheet – Atacama, Argentina

Click here to enlarge. Click here to enlarge. In preparation for my return to Argentina’s Atacama Desert this coming December, I’ve been paring down my selects from my first trip last year. Within this set of images is a smaller set of images that suggests...