Photomatix Pro vs LR/Enfuse vs Topaz Adjust 3

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While I’m putting together my presentation for my upcoming HDR Workshop I a batch of photos and created an HDR in Photomatix and LR/Enfuse.  I then took the original exposure and created a pseudo HDR in Topaz Adjust 3.  Topaz is one of the sponsors of HDR workshop and their plugins for Photoshop are absolutely [...]

Spider Holster review and how to use it with the Really Right Stuff system

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The Spider Holster is an amazing product. Photographer Shai Eynav‘s beautiful design turned into something powerful. The Spider Holster is a heavy duty metal clip that can be attached to the Spider Belt or threaded onto your existing belt. The Spider Plate has multiple pin locations which determines how the camera sits when holstered. The [...]

New Jersey HDR Workshop

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If you have been curious about HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography, or have been struggling while using the technique please join me in day of HDR. I have been working hard on creating a fun and informative HDR Workshop which will be held in Springfield, NJ on January 16, 2010 at 10am. The workshop is only [...]

A Photographers Interview with Vincent Versace

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Please tell us about yourself as a person and as a photographer. Where did you grow up and what sparked your desire to photograph? Were you active with the photography department in high school? Where are you living now? I grew up all over. My father literally was a rocket scientist. He was one of [...]

HDR – High School

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This HDR was taken during the Springfield, NJ Photowalk. It consists of 9 photos merged into an HDR in Photomatix. This is also the High School I went to.

My Halloween Portraits, Happy Friday the 13th

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A prerequisites of coming to my Halloween Party were bringing a Halloween themed appetizer or dessert and getting a portrait taken of you in costume.  Here are a batch of my favorite photos from the party.  One person decided to get out of costume but that’s ok because the photo still came out great! All [...]

Photographer Twitter Tips

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You most likely arrived at this post via Twitter. It is also possible you arrived via a search engine. Either way, thanks for stopping by and enjoy these great Twitter Tips directed towards Photographers. Tweet your photos Tweet your blog posts Tweet when you upload new work Tweet when you find a new photographer who’s [...]

Halloween Party 2009 Time Lapse

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This time lapse was made from a Nikon D5000 shooting one frame every one minute. Unfortunately the batteries depleted about 40 minutes before everyone left so I didn’t get the entire party but that is ok because it was still fun and the video came out great. The video itself was made in Lightroom Beta [...]

Please give me your thoughts on this subject

For years I have been using the name Scott Wyden Imagery for my photography. I have always verbally instructed and included “Please make checks payable to Scott Kivowitz” on each invoice. So many times people with either write the check to Scott Wyden or Scott Wyden Imagery making it useless and then more time is [...]

A Photographers Interview with Nate Lawson

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Please tell us about yourself as a person and as a photographer. Where did you grow up and what sparked your desire to photograph? Were you active with the photography department in high school? Where are you living now? I was born and raised in Sheridan, Wyoming in the shadow of the Big Horn Mountains. [...]

Good, bad & ugly custom white balance & the tools to fix it

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White Balance is a powerful and extremely important part of photography. When all we had was film you would choose your film based on the lighting conditions you intended to work in, or gel the lights to match your film. Now with digital we can push a button, turn a knob and magically the white [...]