‘News’ Archives
The Unsustainable Photography Studio
By Zack Davis - PhotographyConnect.com More and more we here about "sustainable living" and how living alignment with the planet and a cleaner environment can create a happier life. Well in business, we can also do something to make our lives happier, we can live sustainably with the real costs of doing business. We all have seen or even [...]
Canon Releases Firmware Update For EOS 7D
Just days after being released a flaw in the 7D which Canon labled "Residule Image Phenomenon" was found. Under certain circumstances such as images captured by continous shooting previous frames would appear overlayed on the proceeding image. No worries though, thanks to Canon's fast actions firmware version 1.1.0 corrects the problem [...]
Vimeo Releases Their Desktop Uploader
Vimeo is a video uploading service like YouTUBE only better in my opinion because with their subscription service you have much more control over your videos. Beyond that their video quality is spectacular. I know more than a few photographers that use Vimeo and now with more and more DSLR's sporting HD video capture I can only see it getting [...]
Apple wants to advertise and YOU will watch.
You've just bought you new Apple Computer, pull it out of the box and remark about how pretty it looks all white and clean. Power it on and before you can even click the mouse an advertisement window pops on your screen "Your computer will start momentarily, but first a word from our sponsors". Not something you would expect from Apple [...]
Lightroom 3 Public Beta
It's finally here! Lightroom 3 public beta is now out and available for download from Adobe here . According to Adobe's site some of the new features included for you to play with in the Lightroom 3 beta are: Brand new performance architecture, building for the future of growing image libraries State-of-the-art noise reduction to help [...]
PhotographyConnect Computer Specs (October 2009)
It's that time again, after another rush of requests, the release of new processors, and of course the upcoming Windows 7 release here's the specs for a new photography computer. I'm really excited to see many new components as well as old components that have finally become affordable. Total Cost - $1,625.88 Operating System - Windows 7 [...]
Apples, Windows, and Intel… Oh My!
Being that the new i5 and i7 class of processors from Intel are boasting some pretty nice new features including, yes... Hyper Threading has been re-implimented there's reasons to be excited. Couple that with the greatly anticipated retail release of Windows 7 on October 22nd, which Intel reportedly worked with Microsoft on to make their [...]
Nikon SB-900 5.0.2 Firmware Update Released
Nikon recently released a firmware update for the SB-900 strobes to version 5.0.2. Some of the changes include : With uninterrupted shooting with the SB-900 set to i-TTL mode, images captured just before the flash ceased firing were sometimes overexposed. This issue has been resolved. By resolving this issue, metering precision has been [...]
Learn with Betsy Identity Refined
My good friend, photographer and occasional writer/reviewer for Professional Photographer Magazine, Betsy Finn, recently updated her website (http://www.learnwithbetsy.com). The website is a resource she has built containing software and book reviews as well as a wealth of content on becoming a certified photographer. Betsy, a Certified [...]
Portrait Enhancement: Five Simple Steps Webinar
Are you tired of spending way too much time in post processing? Do you look at an image and wonder where to start the enhancement process? Are you looking for a way to increase your image quality and save time? If retouching your images is something you spend too long on, or simply don't feel you understand, then you won't want to miss this [...]
