Taking family portraits is an important part of our photographic journey. And so is making portraits of our 4-legged family members. We sometimes forget to take the time to honor our canine friends with a portrait or two, but it’s really easy to take an awesome, professional-looking picture of our pets. Here are 6 steps to taking great pictures of your dog.

Wired Magazine has a cool article about some open-source (non-destructive) firmware that, once installed will bring a lot more features to your Canon point & shoot (like 1/60,000 shutter speed), click here and check it out (at your own risk of course)!

Do you really need that expensive photo-gear? If you have a $200-lens on a $15.00 tripod, chances are they’ll get along very well. If you have a $4,000 lens (say a 400mm 3.2f tele) on that same $15.00 tripod, chances are you’re throwing away some very good money.

The cost of your equipment is commensurate with [...]

Sophia looooooves Play-Doh. And lucky for her I just happen to have this set of 100+ cookie cutters that she gets to pull out every time the Play-Doh comes out. I’m a little anal though and usually she only gets to play with one color at a time. Except that one time when she [...]

I had a maternity shoot yesterday, and the couple I shot are so nice and have created the most beautiful nursery I’ve ever seen. They’re expecting twins and I’m so excited for them. Here are some of the highlight shots.
The light was beautiful in their backyard and nursery, so there were many great [...]

Last weekend we made a photo-trek with Lance (Bad dog), Maria, Wendy & Mike to the Living desert in Palm Desert, California.
We had a great time and there were plenty of available photo opportunities every where you looked.

Even though the attraction doesn’t open until 9:00 am, we were able to keep the “high-noon” sun at [...]

Check out the new Photoshop Express techniques by none other than Matt Kloskowski, of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals.
Get a jump start using the newly introduced web-application, Photoshop Express.
You can check it out here.

Today Adobe announced the Beta-version of Photoshop-online, a free web-based version of Photoshop that’s called “Photoshop Express”.
I played with it and it has some nice features. The interface makes me think it’s kind of like a “Photoshop Elements for Dummies”.
It can do most of the basic editing functions (rotate, colors, brightness/exposure) as well as a [...]