New Gallery – 2009 Holiday Print Selections

by Eric on November 24, 2009

in Photography

Hello friends, I’m happy to announce the opening of my new print store. For the holiday season, I’ve selected 20 prints that have been especially popular. Some are new (like this year’s Late Night Arrival: Seattle) and some are classics (my Icelandic horse portrait, Blonde Bombshell). Hope you enjoy them!

Late Night Arrival: Seattle

Blonde Bombshell

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Northern Gardener Cover Article

November 10, 2009

Forgive me for a moment of shameless self-promotion:

My mom and I have collaborated on several articles for Northern Gardener magazine over the past few years. (She writes, I photograph.) This month’s issue features our latest collaboration, on holiday decorating, on the cover. If you’re in or near Minnesota, look for it on your bookstore shelves!

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Lightroom 3 Public Beta: Favorite Articles So Far

October 21, 2009

Earlier tonight, Adobe released a new version of Lightroom: a public beta of Lightroom 3.0. You can download it from http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom3/.
We’re releasing this a bit earlier in the cycle than we did with the Lr2 public beta, which means it’ll be a bit rougher around some edges. (As teammate Troy Gaul says, it’s a bit [...]

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Lightroom 2 Technique: How I Organize My Catalog and Why (2009 Edition)

September 13, 2009

I’ve changed my Lightroom workflow fairly radically this summer. In this article, I talk about some of the motivations for making this change, how I made the new choices I’ve made, some of the alternatives I considered, and why I rejected them.
In addition to my work as a developer on the Lightroom team, I take [...]

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Upcoming Workshop: From Lightroom to Photoshop to Print with Andrew Rodney

May 15, 2009

If you want to improve your technique for printing your photography, there’s a great opportunity for you to learn from Lightroom and Photoshop expert Andrew Rodney (see his site, Digital Dog).
He will be teaching a workshop in Art Wolfe’s school of photography in two weeks (May 25-28).
As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, I like [...]

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How Thomas Hawk Might Influence My Lightroom Workflow

May 11, 2009

Update (September 2009): After much consideration and much writing, I’ve developed a new workflow that I’m quite happy with. Thomas’ workflow and some of the thoughts below were very influential. Please see my new article, “How I Organize My Catalog and Why (2009 Edition).”
A few days ago, a friend sent me a copy of Thomas [...]

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Announcing Jitter

April 1, 2009

Microblogging is so 2008. Want to get right to the point? Then try picoblogging, where the name of the game is all about character. One character.
That’s right. I’m excited to announce my new start-up venture, Jitter, where you can send 1-character messages at random intervals. Your friends can subscribe to see what letter you think [...]

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Worth Reading: Jeffrey Freidl – Overexposure, Underexposure, and the Compensation Thereof

February 27, 2009

If you’ve ever wondered how your camera will respond to extreme light conditions (or, more importantly, extreme contrast in a scene), this article is a must read:
Overexposure, Underexposure, and the Compensation Thereof (from Jeffrey Friedl’s blog)
Be sure to take the time to click through the “normalized to the base exposure” and “jpeg version normalized to [...]

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Lightroom 2 Technique: Staying Organized with Controlled Vocabulary

February 4, 2009

Do too many keywords in your Lightroom catalog have you spinning round and round?
Here are a couple of simple tricks I use to keep me organized with over 10,000 keywords in my catalog.
Organize Your Keywords with Category Headers
I’m a big fan of David Rieck’s Controlled Vocabulary Keyword Catalog. It’s a well-organized and (for me, at [...]

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