Do you keep your camera bag open at night when photographing? Here’s five reasons why you shouldn’t. I usually photograph in deserts in the American Southwest. However, most of the reasons why you should get into the habit of zipping up your camera bag will apply to most areas. Critters
One of the most annoying and tedious parts of any photographer’s workflow is removing dust, lint, smudges and fingerprints in post-processing. Imagine having to do that for a product photography project for, say, a hundred items with at least five angles each! Therefore, it’s important to prevent these imperfections before
Dust on the sensor usually means a tedious time removing spots from lots of photos. This is particularly true if the subject is a time-lapse sequence that has hundreds of individual images that have to be cleaned up. Dust particles on a camera’s sensor make black fuzzy, dust bunnies in
Things like dandruff, random dust and scratches often plague headshots. But by utilizing Photoshop, it’s super easy to fix these. Select Filter > Noise > Dust & Scratches… from the top menu bar. Start by putting your Threshold slider to 0, so it can fully analyze all the pixels in
One of the main issues with photographing toys is that everything gets magnified in scale. The smaller the toy, the bigger the world around the toy look. Small things become huge, and microscopic things become large. As you can imagine this makes small things like dust a big problem. A
Ever since I switched to mirrorless with my Sony a7R II, I’ve been trying to figure out the easiest way to clean my sensor. As you might know, without the mirror to protect the sensor, mirrorless cameras can collect a lot of dust spots! I’ve gone through a lot of
Tell me if this has ever happened to you. You’ve been on the road for a while, changing your lenses out over and over, and then came across the most perfect sunset landscape setting ever. So you take the most epic shot of this moment and head home to edit
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I admit it…I’m not perfect. Sometimes the simplest things can come back and bite you. A few months ago, I made the trek up to Crescent City, California for a photo adventure in Redwood National Forest. The day I arrived, we checked into the hotel and went to find the
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