Out in the country taking some photos, I'm snapped by the Google streetview camera car :-)

Learning how to truly control and use shutter speed is one of most important lessons we all must master as photographers. The reason? Your camera’s shutter speed function is the most powerful image-making element in your arsenal of aperture, shutter speed and ISO. It’s the one factor that, more than any other, can make or

This will be the last of the snaps I took while on the second week of the Winter Magic Photo Tour. Going forward I will try to move away from ice and snow photos and into more ’spring’ looking photos (although there will be hard because there is still lots of ice and some snow around

Olympus PEN E-PL1 photo gallery : The Olympus PEN E-PL1 is a camera that is aimed at the amateur photographer that is looking for more quality, but keeping the user-friendliness of a compact camera. That user-friendliness became obvious right away when I made the first test photos with the new Olympus PEN E-PL1. The Olympus PEN camera menu is clear and well-organized, and worth noting is that it i...

Let Geotagalog and a GPS logger do the hard work of assigning Places metadata to your photos. Why import ungeotagged pictures into iPhoto, when it’s so straightforward to GPS-enable your favorite camera? Features: Geotags photos while importing them into iPhoto from a connected camera or card reader. It’s also easy to geotag and import files/folders already

     Inspired by the gallery Orange Crush, curated by ArtByChrysti. Photos from ebergcanada, TiagoBrazil, dyniss, and andertho.

  Guys, this was torture!   Pure, wonderful torture.   I had a difficult time narrowing the cat photos down to a small group of finalists. I had to make some tough decisions. If you’d like to peruse Groups 1 through 5, here’s the link: PW Photography Assignments – Cats   And…here are the finalists. Winner will be announced Sunday evening!     B...

Photo by Scott Bourne – Post by Rob Sylvan – Follow Lightroomers on Twitter Lightroom’s Adjustment Brush is a powerful tool intended for making local adjustments to your photos with any combination exposure, brightness, contrast, saturation, clarity, sharpness, and color settings. Here are 10 tips to make your experience with the tool more efficient and effective. 1.

This was a fun week with our "Jump For Joy!" photo challenge and it was wonderful to welcome Kelly Moore as our Guest Photographer Judge. Here are the awesome photos that Kelly chose as her favorites for this week's theme... First Place: Three Hills Photography Kelly wrote: “I LOVED everything about this photo! The composition, the lighting, the processing, and of course the relationship that yo...

Time for a new POLL. Do You Share The Images You Take Online – if so, how often? I know many of our readers do share photos online on photoblogs or via photo sharing services like Flickr – but this poll is looking at not only IF you do it but how regularly. Note: There is a poll ...