I may be showing my age here, but a figure model with a big, bright tattoo in some inconvenient spot can often be a real problem. I figure, why mess with perfection, but that’s just own my hangup – my younger friends, of course, dismiss me with an indulgent smirk.

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With lights, drops, supports and what-all to fool around with, we photographers can always use handy gadgets to make life easier. One of my favorite gadgets, or set of gadgets, is the Kee Klamp. They are used world-wide by builders, contractors and architects, but we can use ‘em too! With [...]

I’m not a big image editor plugins fan; there are a million of ‘em out there and the vast majority do little except make poor photographs even worse :-)

That said, I have been using Jan Esmann’s Golden Section plugin for many years now. Rather than pushing your pixels around, it [...]

Here’s another last-ditch rescue solution for Microsoft XP and VISTA users. It’s a boot disk you can create that will load a small version of XP into RAM on your troubled PC. This ‘little XP’ application will bypass your operating system yet still give you access to all of the [...]

Awhile back, as I sat watching the minutes tick by, waiting for Adobe Bridge CS2 to get its act together, I decided to, once again, go on a web hunt for a decent and fast image viewer. There are about a million lame ones out there (I’ve tried ‘em all) [...]

Given the fact that even the most diehard old-school photographer will probably have a computer somewhere in his or her life, I’d like to pass along a link to a most useful utility toolset that might save your bacon one of these days when your WINDOWS or LINUX workstation goes [...]