Step #1 - Start the job - Develop the Raw file in Lightroom In order to write about a portrait processing session, you first need a good portrait photo, so I asked my friend and colleague Julia Kuzmenko (www.juliakuzmenko.com) to send me one of her excellent portraits and gladly, she agreed. This photo was taken in very warm lighting conditions, so I decided to cool it. 

This is the fourth (and last) in a series of articles and accompanying videos that detail my approach to fine art nude photography. In this installment I will show you why I don't use a light meter when shooting fine art nudes. I will talk about the "value of gray" and why you should ALWAYS shoot RAW when doing this type of work. Special emphasis will be given to the techniques that you see in the images displayed here as well as on my web site www.JoeEdelman.com

In today's digital world, the end game for most photography is the computer screen. Whether it's on Facebook, Flickr, or some other photo sharing service, the reality is that fewer prints are being made even by those photographers who consider themselves serious enthusiasts or even professionals. I have to count myself among the many photographers who have found themselves making fewer and fewer prints.

CEO and Co-Founder of PSKiss.com Tal Ninio shares some insight on DNG Camera Profiles and how to use Cross Camera and Creative profiles to bring out the most in your images.

Lightroom's Slideshow Module is a basic, but functional slideshow creator. In this video I show how to use the module. You'll see that it's easy to add image specific data, and create custom layouts. It's not the only option though, and so in this video I've also covered created making a slideshow in Animoto, via the Lightroom plugin. Finally I talk about creating Timelapse movies in the Slideshow Module via free templates and presets.

I often get asked if I use Photoshop filters or actions during the post-production of my work. The broad answer is yes and no. The detailed answer is that there are no actions or filters used in the retouching process but there are some things that are done to all images after the initial image editing is done and I am giving the images a look. Unfortunately I have not found a magic button that will finish my images to the level I would want. For this reason retouching is a time consuming part of my job.

Each version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom has brought with it improvements in the Print Module. This tip focuses on a way to display the resolution of any photo in any of Lightroom's three Layout Styles (an image's width x height at a specific ppi).

Because Lightroom is a database, rather than a browser, photos must be ingested via the Import Dialog. Part of this process includes creating previews that allow Lightroom to display a file quickly, rather than going back to the original file every time to render it. Looking at the anatomy of the average Lightroom Catalog Folder (Catalog is the name of the Lightroom database file), We can see there are a number of files visible.

Every photographer talks about that one decisive moment that forever captures something special. Something is seen and the body and mind work together to release the shutter. We as photographers sometimes do not even consciously see those little details, but with our finely tuned photographic sense know how to release the shutter at a specific moment and time, unleashing the magic. For a fashion photographer there are a lot of elements at work leading up to that one decisive moment. The model walking onto set, the flashes popping and the images appearing on screen, that moment for the most part has been created by a team and is just waiting to be captured. As a fashion/portrait photographer that moment is a culmination of hours, days and weeks in the planning.

Shooting architecture is always a challenge. The beauty of architecture photography is that there is a lot variety in styles and types, shapes and sizes of buildings (especially if you get to travel around the world).

This month our in house Lightroom Guru Sean McCormack shares his tips for creating compelling Black and White Images in Adobe Lightroom.

Presented by MAC Group Written by Joe Brady With all of the discussion lately about the benefits of shooting a RAW workflow and the benefits of using the ColorChecker Passport, where does that leave our friends who primarily shoot JPEGs? While it is true that you need to have a RAW file to take advantage of custom camera profiles, there are many things you can do to optimize your JPEG images as well.