I have worked with Adobe’s Lightroom application for several weeks now and I am still quite impressed with it. It has really made my photography appear much better than ever before though it helped considerably that I went to the RAW format with its better range of tonality and detail. The only issue I have [...]

In a recent issue of National Geographic, there was a cover story about the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans. What made the story stood out for me was the accompanying photographs by David Burnett. Using a large format SpeedGraphic camera set at a very shallow depth of field, he created [...]

I came across a reference to a new photo effect, the Orton Effect that has become popular among many photographers as an alternative method of processing photos. The Orton Effect is named after Michael Orton who first used the technique is a sandwich of two images, one in focus the other out of focus. The [...]