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Why Your Photos Look Lousy… or Simple Truths About Color Management
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Why Your Photos Look Lousy… or Simple Truths About Color Management
May 26, 2008 – 11:56 pm | 38 Comments

Let’s embrace the obvious. Many photographers feel that investing time and effort into learning color management is the digital equivalent of going to the dentist. Unless you are an uber-geek, I bet that you …

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Speedliting.com Launched – Adorama Sponsors ‘Speedliter’s Intensive’ Tour
February 12, 2010 – 11:57 am | No Comment
Speedliting.com Launched – Adorama Sponsors ‘Speedliter’s Intensive’ Tour

PixSylated has a new sister in the blogosphere. Speedliting.com was launched this morning. Now you know the reason that I’ve been so scarce on Px for the past two weeks.
If you are a gear hound …

Adorama Workshops to Host ‘Speedliter’s Intensive’
February 1, 2010 – 9:43 am | 2 Comments
Adorama Workshops to Host ‘Speedliter’s Intensive’

I’m more than proud to announce that I will be teaching in NYC on Sunday, March 14th. Adorama will be hosting my ‘Speedliter’s Intensive’ seminar  at their flagship store in Manhattan’s Flatiron District (42 W …

Speedliter’s Intensive™ Heading To Legend City In Phoenix
January 4, 2010 – 12:02 pm | 7 Comments
Speedliter’s Intensive™ Heading To Legend City In Phoenix

When I was a kid growing up in Phoenix, a trip to Legend City was second only to Disneyland in terms of excitement. Although that grand old amusement park has been a memory for more …

Speedliter’s Intensive™ Canon Flash Seminar – Phoenix, January 16
November 19, 2009 – 8:53 am | 101 Comments
Speedliter’s Intensive™ Canon Flash Seminar – Phoenix, January 16

Update: The Speedliter’s Intensive™ will tour the US in spring 2010 (and hopefully head overseas in the summer / fall). Join the mailing list, via the link just below, and you’ll be able to vote …

Still & Motion Photography Collide In Los Angeles
August 25, 2009 – 9:48 am | No Comment
Still & Motion Photography Collide In Los Angeles

A bit of the mystery about the future of photography will be peeled away this weekend in Los Angeles. If you are even mildly interested in learning about the merger of still and motion photography, …

Five Weeks Of Flash Madness Headed To Paso Robles
July 21, 2009 – 3:33 pm | No Comment
Five Weeks Of Flash Madness Headed To Paso Robles

By all measures, it looks like the wine-filled hamlet of Paso Robles, California will become Flash Central, USA for five weeks this fall. Paso Robles Workshops (another brainchild of PixSylated’s Syl Arena) recently published its …

Two Weeks With McNally
July 4, 2009 – 12:07 pm | 11 Comments
Two Weeks With McNally

The summer run of Joe McNally’s One-Day Lighting Workshops has just concluded in Dobbs Ferry, New York (about 15-minutes up the Hudson River from NYC). As a guest instructor, I had a front-row seat and …

‘Making The Transition To Digital Tech’ – Image Mechanics Workshop
May 12, 2009 – 11:18 am | 5 Comments
‘Making The Transition To Digital Tech’ – Image Mechanics Workshop

How do you capture and process 3,000 to 5,000 shots and hand your client the image disk in a single day? Is a workflow that shoots tethered into Lightroom robust enough for professional work? How …

Joe McNally ‘Hot Shoe Diaries’ Workshop To Be Held In Paso Robles
March 5, 2009 – 9:07 am | 2 Comments
Joe McNally ‘Hot Shoe Diaries’ Workshop To Be Held In Paso Robles

PixSylated is very proud to announce that Joe McNally will teach the ‘Hot Shoe Diaries’ workshop in Paso Robles April 20–24, 2009. The week-long workshop will cover many of the small-flash techniques presented in Joe’s …

Digital WakeUp Call
March 5, 2009 – 7:12 am | 3 Comments
Digital WakeUp Call

David Ziser’s Digital WakeUp Call 2009 Tour will get underway on March 30. I consider this 4-hour event to be a must-attend. You’ll learn a ton about photography and the business of photography.
I had the …

David Hobby ‘Strobist’ First-Ever 5-Day Workshop To Be Held In Paso Robles
March 3, 2009 – 9:13 am | No Comment
David Hobby ‘Strobist’ First-Ever 5-Day Workshop To Be Held In Paso Robles

It’s a huge honor for PixSylated to announce that David Hobby, the ‘Strobist‘, will teach a 5-day workshop (for the first time ever!) in Paso Robles April 27–May 1, 2009.
The Strobist 5-Day workshop will …

Searching For The Future of Photography At The 2009 Consumer Electronics Show
January 22, 2009 – 1:55 pm | One Comment
Searching For The Future of Photography At The 2009 Consumer Electronics Show

I headed to Las Vegas recently to search for the future of photography at the Consumer Electronics Show. Every January, the world converges in Vegas and sets up an electronic city within the city. …

Caponigro R/Evolution DVDs * Preorder Pricing
January 8, 2009 – 6:48 am | One Comment
Caponigro R/Evolution DVDs * Preorder Pricing

John Paul Caponigro will release three new training DVDs through Acme Educational next week. Orders placed before the release date will save $10.00 off the $59.95 list price. Having spent a week with JP in …

I Shot Ben Willmore… In Broad Daylight * Gang Light – Part 1:
December 11, 2008 – 12:06 am | 35 Comments
I Shot Ben Willmore… In Broad Daylight * Gang Light – Part 1:

GANG LIGHT – Part 1: Shooter with crazy red hair, plays with 12 Canon 580 EX II Speedlites and 8-feet of red oak to build a high-powered “ring” light, then fires it with a dozen …

Spending A Day With The Strobist
October 7, 2008 – 12:42 pm | 4 Comments
Spending A Day With The Strobist

I had the great fortune to get a seat last Sunday for David Hobby’s Strobist lighting seminar in Los Angeles. [If you’re a student of lighting and just said “Stro-who?”, then let me be the …

Epson Print Academy Dates for 2008-2009
September 7, 2008 – 9:20 pm | 2 Comments
Epson Print Academy Dates for 2008-2009

The dates for the upcoming 2008/09 tour of the Epson Print Academy are now online. The 16-city tour starts in Atlanta on November 8. No specifics about pricing or curriculum have been released. Click here …

Paso Robles Workshops Announced
September 1, 2008 – 11:08 am | No Comment
Paso Robles Workshops Announced

Paso Robles, California | September 1, 2008
For Immediate Release
Syl Arena officially pulled the covers off his newest project – a workshop program that will offer courses in and around Paso Robles on photography, food and …

Ten Tips For Your First Photoshop World
August 25, 2008 – 1:00 pm | 11 Comments
Ten Tips For Your First Photoshop World

So you’re heading to Vegas for your first Photoshop World. Don’t quite know what to expect? Here are 10 tips to help you make the most of your first Photoshop World.
1. Rest up before you …

Santa Fe Photographic Workshops
July 22, 2008 – 9:27 am | One Comment
Santa Fe Photographic Workshops

Santa Fe Photographic Workshops has just posted their schedule for Spring 2009. This is the schedule only; individual course descriptions should be available by the end of September. I’ve taken a number of workshops at …

Jay Maisel NYC Workshops
June 13, 2008 – 11:25 am | No Comment
Jay Maisel NYC Workshops

Jay Maisel has announced three new workshop dates for 2008. Definitely not for the feint of heart – emotionally or financially. The nine attendees at each session “should expect five solid days (from 9:00am to …

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My Canon Speedlite Wishlist

My Canon Speedlite Wishlist

As a lifelong Canon shooter, I’ve been witness again and again to the power of Nikon’s CLS Speedlight system. In fact, most of the inspiration I found to explore the potential of Canon’s Speedlites came …

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Smashing Pumpkins With High-Speed Sync * Gang Light – Part 2

Smashing Pumpkins With High-Speed Sync * Gang Light – Part 2

GANG LIGHT – Part 2: Just how fast a shutter speed do you need to freeze the seeds flying from a pumpkin that your teenage son is trying to drive over the left field fence? …

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New Canon HDSLR? My 2-Cents… (updated)

New Canon HDSLR? My 2-Cents… (updated)

This post was updated on Feb 18 and on Feb 20 after Zeiss announced that Compact Primes will be available in EOS mount.
There have been a couple of posts this morning about rumors about a …

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‘Making The Transition To Digital Tech’ – Image Mechanics Workshop

‘Making The Transition To Digital Tech’ – Image Mechanics Workshop

How do you capture and process 3,000 to 5,000 shots and hand your client the image disk in a single day? Is a workflow that shoots tethered into Lightroom robust enough for professional work? How …

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