I have a decent podcast habit. The ability to listen to longer form discussions and content is quite refreshing in the era of 10 second Instagram reels. I wanted to put together a quick list of my favorite photography podcasts. It’s pretty incredible to live in a time where there is so much available information…
I thought it’d be super helpful to gather all the amazing deals for photographers I’ve come across and share them with you in one handy spot. Right now is the perfect moment to give your website a fresh look, snag some web hosting deals, upgrade or replace that camera gear you’ve been thinking about, or…
An Intro to AI Editing Tools Welcome to the exciting world of AI, the talk of the town in 2023! My journey with AI started a few years back when I dabbled in creating simple tools using basic machine learning. And yes, I’ve been closely following and using ChatGPT since its early days. As a…
VSCO Film 06 Review Updated May 15th, 2019. VSCO has discontinued all of their desktop film packs and stopped support. They’re focusing completely on mobile. I’ve replaced this preset pack in my workflow with presets from Presets.co, you can get 2 free presets at their site. VSCO released their latest film emulation plugins for Lightroom…
The IQ250 is an incredible medium format digital back, put on a medium format body that functions well enough, with a selection of available lenses that are top of the line. I wanted to try one out last summer, so I put together a quick bridal shoot to test it out. The hardware is honestly beautiful,…
A review of Mastin Labs Kodak Portra 160 preset for Lightroom. These presets were designed originally for hybrid film/digital shooters that are trying to match their digital images to their film scans. I’m going to look at them a bit differently, because I’m not going to have a film comparison image. I’m going to see…
Today VSCO released Film Pack 00 as a free download for anyone wanting to try out photo editing in Lightroom. It features two of their most popular presets, Kodak Gold 100 and Tri-x Push/Pull. There are over 30 variations of the two presets included in this pack. You can also download a free trial of…
Updated January 1, 2017. Unfortunately, VSCO has discontinued this free pack. Today VSCO released Film Pack 00 as a free download for anyone wanting to try out photo editing in Lightroom. It features two of their most popular presets, Kodak Gold 100 and Tri-x Push/Pull. There are over 30 variations of the two presets included…
VSCO Film 06 Review VSCO released their latest film emulation plugins for Lightroom and ACR today, The Alternative Process Collection. These are very interesting for us as many of our favorite film images are from Portra 160 pushed a stop. These plugins should be very versatile for photographers shooting weddings, editorial, or personal work. This is…
Pentax 645z Review The last week was spent shooting a few thousand frames through the Pentax 645z. This is Pentax’s new somewhat-affordable medium format system. We wanted to take a real world approach to how we would shoot the camera, so this review will be less technical and more about how it performed on the job….