2010

B & H Canon PowerShot A495 SALE

Or, Great Ideas for Stocking Stuffers – Only $89.99

OFFER ENDS 1/8/2011 – TWO MORE DAYS FOR SPECIAL SHIPPING OFFER!

If you haven’t already finished your Christmas shopping, B & H is running some really sweet deals from now through early January. Like this Canon PowerShot A495 Digital Camera.

Its no secret I love Canon’s PowerShot line of point and shoot digital cameras. I’ve owned two and really love both of them. These little jewels have fantastic wide angle lenses, which is the way I almost always shoot with them. I am personally unimpressed with the so called zoom lenses on MOST point and shoots. But who cares about zooming when you can get wide angle shots like these:

I shot all the images in the post Down by the Sea Shore with my Canon PowerShot A590. Have I mentioned a few years back I sold three images to a soup company for packaging that I shot on the A590′s predecessor? Here’s one of them:

These are seriously sweet little cameras that are light weight, durable and easy fun to use. If you remain unconvinced about the beauty and benefits of wide angle, then you need to read Wide Angle Lenses Are For Portraits Too.

For TODAY only, nothing in the Totally Rad store is over $109.

Check out my reviews for all of Doug Boutwell’s Totally Rad Lightroom Presets:

Review: New Lightroom Presets From Totally Rad Really Deliver

Review: Totally Rad Lightroom Black & White Presets Produce Glorious Images

Review: New Totally Rad Lightroom ‘Effects’ Presets Add Visual Interest to Photographs

Review: Totally Rad Lightroom Presets Total Package

24 hour record low prices for Totally Rad Actions! Nothing in the store over $109!

Doug Boutwell over at Totally Rad Actions is throwing an absolute BLOW OUT sale for one brief, shining 24 hour period. Nothing in the store will be more than $109, but you better put your bunny shoes on and be prepared to hop fast – the sale runs for one day only – Friday November 26, 2010 (midnight to midnight, PST.)

I LOVE Totally Rad Actions and Lightroom Presets. My ‘favorite’ Totally Rad Action of ALL TIME is Boutwell Magic Glasses, which I use on my images at least 75% of the time. Take a look at the difference it made in this image I shot for a commercial client:

Totally Rad Actions Black Friday Sale

After cropping and basic retouching I ran the Boutwell Magic Glasses action and BAM! Detail so sharp and crisp it looks practically 3D. To fully appreciate the detail click on the image below to enlarge:

You can read about my fantastic high flying adventure to get this shot which involved a ride in a state-of-the-art cherry picker equipped truck and blocked off traffic right in the middle of downtown on Peachtree Street.

Check out my reviews for all of Doug Boutwell’s Totally Rad Lightroom Presets:

Review: New Lightroom Presets From Totally Rad Really Deliver

Review: Totally Rad Lightroom Black & White Presets Produce Glorious Images

Review: New Totally Rad Lightroom ‘Effects’ Presets Add Visual Interest to Photographs

Review: Totally Rad Lightroom Presets Total Package

Transcending Travel – A Guide to Captivating Travel Photography

Hot on the heels of their latest ebook The Essential Guide to Portrait Photography, the folks over at Digital Photography School have released another STUNNING photography book. Transcending Travel was written by Mitchell Kanashkevich, a freelance travel and documentary photographer who travels the world and shoots for Getty and Corbis Images.

Transcending Travel Photography Book by Digital Photography School

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Or, This Just In.

Doug Boutwell over at Totally Rad is rocking a SERIOUS sale on EVERYTHING in the store, beginning like YESTERDAY and running through May 7, 2010.

Savings of $19 – $30

For savings of $19 – $30, head on over to GetTotallyRad.com, hit the ‘products’ tab up in the nav bar, then hit ‘try em’. Go play for a while and make your decision. When you’ve picked out your goodies, go back to the nav bar and hit ‘buy em’. That will take you straight to the store, where you can shop to your heart’s content.

Check out my reviews of Totally Rad Lightroom Presets here:

Review: New Lightroom Presets From Totally Rad Really Deliver

Review: Totally Rad Lightroom Black & White Presets Produce Glorious Images

Review: New totally Rad Lightroom ‘Effects’ Presets Add Visual Interest to Photographs

Review: Totally Rad Lightroom Presets Total Package

For some examples of working with another Totally Rad product, check out my tutorial on using Photoshop Actions:

Elevate Your Portraits to Art with Photoshop Actions

Where Was This Book When I Was Starting Out?

I have a confession. I originally ordered this e-book to figure out how I might want to format my own e-book about photography. Then I received it and thought ‘well why bother now?’[…]

Double the Rebate With Purchase of 5D Mark II Camera

I’ve just gotten the heads up from Adorama that Canon is offering INSTANT rebates on certain lenses beginning March 7, 2010 through April 3, 2010. In some cases you can even DOUBLE the rebate if the lens is purchased with a Canon 5D Mark II camera body.

Here’s the list: