Capture One Pro 10: $299; $15 per month subscription; $99 upgrade from versions 7, 8, 9 Phase One In 2015 MyMac looked in
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Category: Photography
LED Photo Studio Color Box Light With Infrared Remote Control – Review
This is my first review of a light source for photographers, so unless you’re already a professional light-source user, your experience should be similar to mine. The first thing I needed to do with the LED Photo Studio Color Box Light With Infrared Remote Control was mount it onto a tripod, or at least onto the ‘handle’ included in the box, because otherwise the four ‘flaps’ that cover the LED’s are difficult to manage with less than two free hands.
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 15 – Review
Adobe Photoshop Elements has been part of my photographic workflow for more than a decade. It’s always been my go-to software for adjusting and improving my photos. Photoshop Elements (PSE) has been on an annual incremental upgrade path for several years, pushing out new and enhanced features with each release. The new Elements 15 is no exception. Adobes Bob Gager states that their objective is to make the software do the work so you don’t have to.
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Airport Roller Derby Pro Camera Case – Review
This high quality rolling camera pack from Think Tank Photo is perfect for airline travel and will hold everything you need for your next pro shoot. The Airport Roller Derby comes with eight wheels (four sets of two wheels at each corner of the bottom) that are sturdy and move easily in multiple directions.
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Polaroid Pro Series Carbon Fiber Travel Tripod – Review
knob Polaroid Pro Series Carbon Fiber Travel Tripod Price: $99.95 at Amazon USA Polaroid Pro Series Carbon FiberTravel Tripod with removable Ball Head is
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Photolemur – Review
Photolemur is a new Macintosh app that takes the work out of enhancing photographs. All you do is load your photo into its workspace and it immediately improves it based on its calculations of the kind of picture it is. Using Artificial Intelligence, it does a fairly good job of determining whether the photo is a portrait, landscape, or an architecture features feature like a bridge or a church.
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Airport International V3.0 Rolling Pro Photography Bag – Review
Think Tank Photo clearly pays attention to what its customers say about it’s line of high quality camera packs. This latest version of the Airport International, a suitcase-like roller, incorporates a few recommended improvements over the earlier version. The last version was by no means inadequate Think Tank does not skimp on materials but its now enhanced with some useful changes.
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Lightroom Transformations – Book Review
What makes a good photograph? asks world-class photographer and author Martin Evening. This modest-size and affordable intermediate-level information and instruction book provides answers you can use both when making your photos and when editing them.
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Corel AfterShot Pro 3 – Review
Photographers who manage and edit their photos on the Mac have fewer options than they used to. Apple’s Photos app, while great for tossing general family and daily photos into, isn’t adequate for serious landscape or portrait photos. Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop are expensive and are pushing people towards subscriptions. Pixelmator and similar native Mac apps hold promise but fall short of meeting the needs of pure photographers.
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Luminar – Review
Imagine editing photos with an app that is personalized to your own requirements. Macphuns new Luminar lets you do just that. It is adaptable to users likes, preferences, and skill levels. All of its many tools, filters, and controls are adjustable with sliders making manipulation visual. Effects change dynamically so you can see in real time how much or how little you need for each.
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Aurora HDR 2017 – Review
MyMac enthusiastically reviewed Aurora HDR when it was first introduced a year ago (December, 2015). Now Macphun has released a new-and-improved version, Aurora HDR 2017. With it, you can energize and intensify your photographs as with no other current Mac photo app Ive used.
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Olala 64GB iDisk Mobile Memory – Review
Smartphones make it easy to take pictures. As a result, many people end up with huge amounts of precious storage space filled with images they’ve captured over a long period of time. If your phone has 16 GB of storage, you will find yourself running out of space and looking at warning messages unless you clean house or use a device like this 64GB Olala iDisk to move images and documents off the phone for instant remote viewing.
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Polaroid BrightSaber Professional LED Lighting Wand – Review
Do you wield your camera with the precision of a Jedi? Are you able to balance light, shadow, color, and contrast with perfect composition and focus? If so, the Polaroid BrightSaber may be the next addition to your tool belt.
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MindShift Moose Peterson Edition Small Camera Bag – Review
The MindShift Gear Moose Peterson Edition small multi-purpose camera backpack/bag is the ideal outdoor and hiking backpack for people who want to be away from the car, yet need a full complement of zip-up pockets and pouches for pro camera and other gear that requires a significant degree of protection.
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NEC MultiSync E245WMi 24″ Widescreen Monitor – Review
To paraphrase an old adage: One cannot be too rich, too thin, or have too much screen real estate. This is especially true for me when working in multiple applications with many windows and tool palettes. The benefits of working with a second monitor became apparent as soon as the NEC 24″ Widescreen Monitor came to life when connected to my MacBook Pro.
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Polaroid Panorama Pan Head – Review
This cute pan head allows you to pan 360º continuously in either direction, sweep a 75º pan left and right, or take photos in 5º increments every 10 seconds. It can be mounted on a tripod, or its three legs fold outward like the wings of a beetle so it will stand on its own. The unit is about the diameter of a billiard ball. Polaroid’s engineers and designers had fun with this. Not only does it look great, it performs well too.
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Travel Tips for Techies (And Everyone Else) – Nemo Memo
I just returned from my fourth weekend trip taken during the past two months. Two journeys were by car and two were by airplane. I live in Tucson in southern Arizona. One trip each was to Nevada and northern Arizona, and two were to Marin County, north of San Francisco, California. The California flights were for family occasions, and both Nevada and northern Arizona were for sightseeing. Only the Arizona trip included other people: daughter and son-in-law. We took our small family dog with us on the sightseeing trips and also on the first California flights.
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PhotoFast iOS Lighting Card Reader CR-8800 – Nemo Memo
PhotoFast’s versatile iOS Lighting Card Reader CR-8800 is the smallest and most affordable solution to add the largest quantity of external storage to your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. You will never again be short on capacity on your iDevice when you have this clever Lightning tip accessory plus an inexpensive, high-capacity micro SD card.
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Nine photography books to enhance your skills – Review
This review will look at some photography books that were released in 2015. This article presents nine books covering different photography related topics. The first five books are about how to take great pictures for different types of photography. The remaining books are related to post processing using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop. In this list you’ll find some interesting reading to improve your photography skills.
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Tenba Cooper DSLR 13 Messenger-style Camera Bag – Review
When I first opened the box with the Tenba Cooper 13 DSLR inside, I knew I was in for something special. The bag itself came wrapped inside another bag! Very classy. Once I removed the Cooper and felt its fabric between my fingers, my first thought was this is going to be a great case to carry around. It’s a handsome slate grey on the outside, lined with a nylon interior. I’d consider the Cooper a messenger-style bag, and it also looks like a typical day-to-day bag.
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