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Painting with the Sun – Masters of Natural Lighting – Beth Jansen

Back in June, we sent out requests to select photographers to be part of a new series on X-equals regarding the use of natural lighting in their work. We specifically asked them: How you approach using natural light The challenges you face when working with natural light Special tips and tricks you can share for [...]

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Film to Digital – Scanning Essentials 101 – Part 2 of 2

Last time we briefly covered scanning photos in such a way that will produce great results when performing further editing in Lightroom.  Today we are going to look at the process of working with these scanned files in Lightroom, laying out my personal workflow and some tips that I have discovered over the past few [...]

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Making Your Mark – Watermarking with Lightroom

Back in October 2008, I wrote an article for Layers Magazine about some steps you can take to protect your copyright when posting photos online (big thanks to the editors at Layers for posting the full article!). I think it would be worth your time to take a few minutes to give that a read [...]

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Film to Digital – Scanning Essentials 101 – Part 1 of 2

If you’re like me, you probably have a few shoe boxes full of old negatives from the days before digital.  Well, if you are like me, you probably have a shoebox full of negatives from last month. Whichever your situation may be, you probably would like to get those old images digitized for print or [...]

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Painting with the Sun – Masters of Natural Lighting – Michelle Moore

Back in June, we sent out requests to select photographers to be part of a new series on X-equals regarding the use of natural lighting in their work. We specifically asked them: How you approach using natural light The challenges you face when working with natural light Special tips and tricks you can share for [...]

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