Fast, super high-capacity SSD (Solid State Drive) storage devices have become essential tools for content creators, videographers and studio photographers. Storage drives that are immensely portable and durable, like the 8TB* Sandisk Extreme® Portable SSD, provide the ideal platform to store, back up and help preserve precious data while on location in the field, in the studio and at the workstation. Photographers and video creators worldwide trust Sandisk memory products to safely store their irreplaceable image files. For more than 25 years, Sandisk engineers have continued to drive industry-leading innovation and set new standards for capacity, performance, endurance and reliability. The 8TB* Sandisk Extreme Portable SSD is a dependable high-speed…

Lightroom is loaded with sophisticated tools that enable anyone to adjust colors to perfection. Unfortunately, many inexperienced users shy away from these transformational techniques because of a misconception that “advanced” means “too complicated for me.” This comprehensive post-processing lesson with instructor Austin James Jackson will disabuse you of this common notion by explaining that the only thing advanced about these tools is the remarkable results they provide, and not any difficulty with putting them to use. Today’s 19-minute primer is demonstrated with Lightroom Classic, but Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) offers many of these tools and technique as well. Jackson is a professional landscape photographer based in Southern, Utah. He’s also…

Lightroom is loaded with sophisticated tools that enable anyone to adjust colors to perfection. Unfortunately, many inexperienced users shy away from these transformational techniques because of a misconception that “advanced” means “too complicated for me.” This comprehensive post-processing lesson with instructor Austin James Jackson will disabuse you of this common notion by explaining that the only thing advanced about these tools is the remarkable results they provide, and not any difficulty with putting them to use. Today’s 19-minute primer is demonstrated with Lightroom Classic, but Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) offers many of these tools and technique as well. Jackson is a professional landscape photographer based in Southern, Utah. He’s also…

If you live in a perpetually pleasant climate, go outside and mow the lawn or something. Save this story for later, like when you take that Alaskan cruise, or when the Earth’s axis shifts 90 degrees. For the other 75% of us who experience cold, often snowy weather from December through March, here’s how to get optimal exposure when the ground is all covered in white. Snowblind Here’s the simplified, non-technical explanation we all learned at school—or at the local camera store when there were such things. The meter in your camera sets exposure based on the average brightness of the lightest and darkest areas of a scene. We call…

If you live in a perpetually pleasant climate, go outside and mow the lawn or something. Save this story for later, like when you take that Alaskan cruise, or when the Earth’s axis shifts 90 degrees. For the other 75% of us who experience cold, often snowy weather from December through March, here’s how to get optimal exposure when the ground is all covered in white. Snowblind Here’s the simplified, non-technical explanation we all learned at school—or at the local camera store when there were such things. The meter in your camera sets exposure based on the average brightness of the lightest and darkest areas of a scene. We call…

Unless you live on flotsam near Point Nemo in the South Pacific Ocean, you’ve already heard that Adobe Photoshop is now 35 years old. Photographers, graphic artists and other visual creatives—but especially photographers—should by all means celebrate. Original Photoshop 3.5 inch disk, for Mac only. © Jeff Schewe A High-Tech Symbiotic Relationship Photoshop and the digital camera phenomena can thank each other—to a large degree—for their success. Photoshop appeared before consumer-level digital cameras and therefore had a few minutes to mature. Digital cameras gave photographers—and just as significantly—computer geeks a way to “get images onto our Macs and PCs.” Additionally, digital cameras gave photographers an alternative to analog film photography,…

Unless you live on flotsam near Point Nemo in the South Pacific Ocean, you’ve already heard that Adobe Photoshop is now 35 years old. Photographers, graphic artists and other visual creatives—but especially photographers—should by all means celebrate. Original Photoshop 3.5 inch disk, for Mac only. © Jeff Schewe A High-Tech Symbiotic Relationship Photoshop and the digital camera phenomena can thank each other—to a large degree—for their success. Photoshop appeared before consumer-level digital cameras and therefore had a few minutes to mature. Digital cameras gave photographers—and just as significantly—computer geeks a way to “get images onto our Macs and PCs.” Additionally, digital cameras gave photographers an alternative to analog film photography,…

Everyone loves a stunning silhouette, but do you understand how to capture one with precision? If not, stay tuned because that’s what you’ll learn how to do in this tutorial from the experts at C4 Photo Safaris— a group of guides, photographers and workshop instructors based in Botswana, Africa. Instructor Danielle Carsons is a professional wildlife photographer who designs and leads photo tours in the African outback for shooters of all skill levels. This episode demonstrates how to make eye-popping silhouette photos under a wide variety of lighting conditions throughout the day. Carsons explains her six tips in the contest of wildlife photography , but everything you’ll learn in the…

Everyone loves a stunning silhouette, but do you understand how to capture one with precision? If not, stay tuned because that’s what you’ll learn how to do in this tutorial from the experts at C4 Photo Safaris— a group of guides, photographers and workshop instructors based in Botswana, Africa. Instructor Danielle Carsons is a professional wildlife photographer who designs and leads photo tours in the African outback for shooters of all skill levels. This episode demonstrates how to make eye-popping silhouette photos under a wide variety of lighting conditions throughout the day. Carsons explains her six tips in the contest of wildlife photography , but everything you’ll learn in the…