Ever since I started developing presets for Lightroom, photographers have been asking me how they can get better results out of Lightroom, or even how they can start designing their own styles & presets. So I’m going to be sharing a series of 6 posts… READ MORE »
To get a really great photo, there are so many things that have to go right. You have to have the right equipment: the camera, the lens, the tripod, the flash… You have to have the right circumstances: the location, the time of day, the weather…… READ MORE »
I remember when I was just starting to use Lightroom. I loaded my photos, hopped over to the “develop” module, and was faced with my first major photo-processing dilemma: “Um… which setting should I adjust first?” It seemed natural to start right at the top and… READ MORE »
After hundreds of hours of research, calibration & testing, I’m thrilled to share my free pack of Lightroom presets, the NATE CAM Starter Pack. This pack is a free download and gives you both Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw files for 10 different Lightroom presets inspired… READ MORE »
VSCO Film 07 – the “eclectic films” – is VSCO’s most diverse film pack to date. My goal in this guide is to help you deeply understand the films inside this pack so that you can intuitively know when and how to use each film to its fullest potential…. READ MORE »
VSCO Film 02 offers some really interesting additions to the films we explored last time in VSCO Film 01. VSCO has labeled this pack “The Classic Films,” but in reality, it’s a pretty diverse mix of films. So knowing more about each film is vital to using this pack… READ MORE »
Welcome to VSCO FILM 01 – The Missing Guide. This guide is for any digital photographer who wants to get that natural film “look” but hasn’t had all that much experience working directly with film. I’m a big fan of the film emulators VSCO makes… READ MORE »
Learning how to take photographs that make a small space look bigger is an essential skill for any photographer. Perhaps you are taking photos a small room in your house and want to make it feel like a big room. Or perhaps you are simply… READ MORE »
One of the things I’ve loved about living in Philadelphia the past 9 years is witnessing the transformation of the city. In the Fairmount neighborhood, where I’ve lived the last 6 years, one of the most obvious transformations is, without doubt, the beautification of the… READ MORE »
Just going through pictures from this past summer, and found these from the Fairmount Art Crawl. We ran into our neighbors, Sandi and Neil, who are the owners of Neighborhood Potters, a beautiful little pottery studio on Fairmount Ave. They were giving a demonstration, and… READ MORE »