Whether it’s a different way home from the office or combining steps in a recipe, we all have our little shortcuts that we take hoping to save us some time. While processing your images, you can drive yourself crazy clicking around all over the place, but I’ve gathered some of my most used Adobe Lightroom shortcut keys in the image above to cut down on the time that you’ll be editing. Many of these are so intuitive that they’ll become second nature as you(...)
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Post tags: adobe tutorial, editing, hotkeys, lightroom, LR3, LR4, processing, quick keys, shortcut keys, shortcuts, training, workflow

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After posting this image online and after entering it in a PPA-style print competition, I got a lot of questions about how I made this image. especially after telling folks that it’s a composite of HDR and strobist exposures.The image above is a combination of techniques and can seem complicated to put together, but just like anything else, when you break it down to its most basic parts and take it step by step, it becomes much simpler. Below, I’ll break No Way Home down to its basic building blocks to show you how(...)
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Post tags: bus stop, composite, downtown san francisco, exposure fusion, HDR, hoodie, image blend, San Francisco, stranded, street photography, strobist

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It looks like a lot of people are complaining about the base cost of digital downloads on the new price lists that have been enabled on SmugMug galleries, but I have an option that avoids it all together! I got this code from(...)
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Post tags: download, download button, hack, html, javascript, modification, smugmug, smugmug gallery, tutorial

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I’ve shot the Golden Gate Bridge many, many times during the early morning, day, and at night. But I knew that this time would be completely unlike any other before. It was the Golden Gate Bridge’s 75th anniversary.

The plan was for the bridge to shut down by 9pm so that fireworks could start by 10 and I knew that getting a good spot could(...)
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Post tags: 75th anniversary, 75th birthday, architecture, GGB, Golden Gate Bridge, Google+, history, landmark, Marin Headlands, night photography, photowalk, pyro spectacular by souza

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I’d never seen San Jose City Hall in person before the night that I shot this image, but I was kind of weirded out and intrigued all at the same time. Being in the heart of Silicon Valley, I wasn’t exactly expecting traditional architecture (see San Francisco City Hall), but the glass dome of the rotunda quickly grabbed my attention while the(...)
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Post tags: architecture, city hall, dome, glass, modern, san jose, stars

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When I’m traveling (and most of the time when I’m not) my camera is always with me and I usually make it a point to shoot as much as I can. Luckily, hard drive space is (relatively) cheap, but(...)
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Post tags: Arco, boat, Cabo, Cabo San Lucas, El Arco, Lucas, Mexico, ocean, paradise, rock formation, San, sandstone, tropical, water taxi

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I’m super stoked to share this news with the world! In fact, I’ve been holding on to the first part of this for about a month and just haven’t had the time to sit down an hammer out an announcement.

PPGBA: 1st and 3rd place!

At last month’s PPGBA (Professional Photographers of the Greater Bay Area) meeting and awards night, we got the results of the year end print competition. I was surprised and extremely honored to (...)
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Post tags: award, bridge, high contrast, parking lot, parking ramp, PPA, print competition

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Today I leave on yet another epic road trip, this time to SF Giants spring training in Scottsdale, AZ. Leaving from the SF Bay Area under the cover of darkness, there wouldn’t seem to be many (...)
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Post tags: arizona, cactus league, friends, HDR, phoenix, road trip, roadtrip, scottsdale, sf giants, spring training, the guys

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I could almost hear the 7 Sisters laughing at us as we visited them for a shoot. I ran up to San Francisco one night with Tom and Paul to shoot this row of Victorian houses that has graced magazine covers, postcards and the opening credits to(...)
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Post tags: 7 sisters, anvilimage, architecture, cityscape, exposure fusion, HDR, long exposure, night photography, park, San Francisco, sf bay area, skyline, tree, victorian

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I’m still waiting for that elusive shot: the San Francisco Bay and Golden Gate Bridge completely covered in a thick blanket of fog with only the tops of the two towers peeking out. As many times as I’ve shot this bridge (many, many times!), the conditions have never been just right.

Last night I was at home when I realized that there was a full moon and I started thinking about(...)
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