Using PTLens for Distortion Corrections

Columbus, Texas
Copyright © 2009 Jeff Lynch Photography
Shot taken with a Canon EOS 40D set on aperture priority (Av) using an EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM tripod-mounted. The exposure was taken at 18mm, f/13 for 1/40th of a second at ISO 100 on Sandisk digital film. Post capture processing was done in Lightroom 2 and Photoshop CS4 [...]

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Snow Leopard for Photographers

UPDATE: It’s Saturday afternoon and I’ve just completed my upgrade to Snow Leopard. It took only 45 minutes on my 13″ MBP and the upgrade went perfectly. This saved me about 8 GB of hard drive space and both startup and shutdown times are significantly faster. Lightroom 2 and Photoshop CS4 also startup faster but [...]

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Black & White Conversion in Silver Efex Pro

Some shots are just meant to be converted into black & white and there’s really no better tool than Nik Software’s Silver Efex Pro plug-in for Photoshop and Lightroom. I’ve tried many different black & white conversion techniques in the past few years and nothing I’ve found works half as good as Silver Efex Pro.

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Post Capture Processing in Lightroom 2

I got an email yesterday from a reader asking for a little more detail about my post capture workflow in Lightroom. It’s funny but the actual workflow I use is really determined by the image and the story I want to tell. Some images are converted from Raw to Jpeg in only a few steps [...]

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Landscape Photography – Small Rapids

A couple of months ago I was hiking around the Pedernales Falls near Johnson City, Texas and happened upon this flow of water bubbling from an underground source and running back into the Pedernales river. I looked high and low but couldn’t find any sign of where the water originated from. It must have started [...]

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Landscape Photography – Texas Rain Forest

Happy Monday morning to everyone and happy first day of school for all you Texas kids!
Here’s another shot I took of Gorman Falls at the Colordao Bend State Park near Bend, Texas. I look forward to visiting this wonderful location again this October. Hopefully the drought will have abated by then and Gorman Creek will [...]

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Landscape Photography – The Old West

Here’s another shot I took last weekend in Goliad, Texas of the Presidio La Bahia. Walking around this old mission and fort was like stepping on the set of a John Wayne movie. The old west at it’s best!
Have a great weekend folks!

Presidio La Bahia – Goliad, Texas
Copyright © 2009 Jeff Lynch Photography
Shot taken with [...]

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Comparing the Canon G10 and G11

As most of you know by now, Canon has introduced a new “G” series model, the PowerShot G11 to replace their flagship model the G10. In the coming days there will be reviews galore posted on the various industry watching blogs with in depth discussions of this new model’s features and benefits. Folks that recently [...]

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Landscape Photography – Mission Bell

Here’s another shot taken last weekend in Goliad, Texas at the Mission Espiritu Santo de Zuñiga, a beautifully reconstructed Franciscan mission from the 1700’s. For every mission there must be a bell to call folks to worship and this is no exception.

Mission Bell
Copyright © 2009 Jeff Lynch Photography
Shot taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark [...]

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Landscape Photography – Mission Cross

Here’s one of the first shots taken last weekend in Goliad, Texas at the Mission Espiritu Santo de Zuñiga, a beautifully reconstructed Franciscan mission from the 1700’s. A stone outside reads:
“Site of the Mission Nuestra Señora del Espiritu Santo de Zuñiga. First established at the site of La Salle’s fort on Garcitas Creek, Victoria County, [...]

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