On Reviews

  • Review: The New Elinchrom BXRI-500 Strobes

    Mar 16th, 2009  |  65 Comments

    I’ve been working with the newly introduced Elinchrom BXRI-500 studio strobes, and I did a video review for you guys (below) to look at the pros and cons of this new mid-level set-up. Here’s the link to the complete Elinchrom BXRI 500 kit at B&H Photo (They currently show it selling for $1550, with twoContinue…

  • Kick-Butt New “Fashion Photography Accessory” Discovery!

    Jan 27th, 2009  |  24 Comments

    At Christmas I got a very cool new electric guitar from my wife (that’s not the accessory, by the way), and she wanted to make sure I got a guitar I really liked, so I went to the local music store to find one I liked, but while there, I walked by the drum departmentContinue…

  • Photoshop Insider Book Review: Footprint’s Travel Photography by Steve Davey

    Jan 26th, 2009  |  8 Comments

    I don’t normally do book reviews, because I don’t think it’s right for me, a Photoshop and photography book author, to publicly criticize another author’s Photoshop or photography instruction book. It just ain’t right. Luckily, with this book I don’t have to (which is why I’m making an exception and doing a book review). IContinue…

  • Part 2 of the “Dave Hill Look Revisited”

    Jan 20th, 2009  |  107 Comments

    OK, today in Part 2 we’re looking at the Post Processing I did to yesterday’s image, and for that I used the new Lucis Art Pro plug-in (which I’m going to mini-review in this same post). DISCLAIMER: If you hate the Dave Hill look, or you’re tired of it, or whatever…do me a favor—just skipContinue…

  • MacBook Pro Review Q&A (Haters Unite!)

    Nov 10th, 2008  |  3 Comments

    I had a lot of questions and comments from the MacBook Pro review I posted last week, so I thought I’d address a few of them of them here. Q. Why don’t you just use a mouse? A. The reason I have a MacBook Pro at all, is because of travel (as I said inContinue…

  • Review: Apple’s New MacBook Pro (Somebody Get My Gun!)

    Nov 6th, 2008  |  3 Comments

    There are things I absolutely love about my new 15″ Apple MacBook Pro (photo above courtesy of Apple), but at least 40 to 50 times a day, I want to have a friend fling it high into the air so I can use it for skeet shooting practice. Now, before I dig into this reviewContinue…

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