A member on our forums recently brought up the interesting and sometimes controversial topic of photography when it comes to “shooting it right” vs “post processing to make our photo look right.” It’s a good question that we must all ask ourselves as photographers. I myself, am guilty of shooting photos thinking, “I can make this look better in Photoshop or Lightroom…” Sometimes I can …

I’d like to start by thanking everyone who participated in the third Photography Assignments Challenge: “Windows.” We had such a great turnout and so many fantastic photos submitted with a wide range of creative photographic styles. It’s time now for the fourth bi-weekly challenge! Your assignment for the next two weeks, is to bring out your cameras where ever you are going and shoot …

We’re onto the fifth of our macro photography challenges now. Challenge 4 sure was difficult, but we did have a winner (wento) from a new member to the forums. Here is our fifth challenge image, with special thanks to our member “giz”for providing the image above, as well as Ken Fagan for administering these challenges. Can you guess what the item in this photo is? …

This past Saturday (Aug 23rd, 2008) was the date of the Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk, where photographers from all over the world signed up to be a part of this event in celebration of Scott’s new book: The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)
Each city had a registered leader of the Photowalk, and a maximum of 50 photographers per city. …