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Photography Software and Book Review

 

Lightroom and Photoshop

Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan for Photoshop CC Lightroom

You just can’t go wrong with Lightroom. It will let you organize, backup and give you more than just the basics to manipulate your images.

Photoshop on the other hand is a pretty extensive program that can get into the finer details. I’d say about 98% of my work is done in Lightroom, but sometimes Photoshop can give you that extra detail.

Purchase Photoshop + Lightroom

 

Lightroom book with videos

Tony Northrup’s Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Video Book: Training for Photographers

Not only is this a great price $9.99, if you learn better from videos, like me, this is a great book. Not only does it come with 12 hours of video, presets and raw images to follow along, you also can join the Facebook group for feed back and collaboration. Truly, a book ahead of it’s time.

Lightroom5 Book & Videos

 

Lightroom book by Kelby

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC Book for Digital Photographers

Every detail is covered in this book, like no other.

Books on Travel Photography

 

Lightroom book with videos

Tony Northrup’s Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Video Book: Training for Photographers

Not only is this a great price $9.99, if you learn better from videos, like me, this is a great book. Not only does it come with 12 hours of video, presets and raw images to follow along, you also can join the Facebook group for feed back and collaboration.

Lightroom5 Book & Videos

 

Best Travel Cameras

 

Canon Powershot

Canon PowerShot A1300 16.0 MP

If you’re looking for a small point and shoot travel camera this is the one. Shots HD video and has 32 predefined shooting situations. It uses 2 AA batteries and has a viewfinder. All these makes this an easy to use travel camera.

Canon PowerShot A1300 16.0 MP

 


Nikon d5200

Nikon D5200 24.1 MP with a 18-105mm Lens

The Nikon d5200 comes with plenty of powerful features and is light weight which makes it the perfect for a good travel digital slr. Currently the camera is too new for a rating, but all the comparisons put this camera at the top of every list.

Nikon D5200 & 18-105mm Lens

 

Canon g15 travel camera

Canon G15 12.1 MP

Maybe the best camera in its’ class. The Canon G15 offers HD video and raw images. The camera is too big to fit in a shirt pocket, but can easily fit into jacket pocket or small purse. The light weight, size and image quality make this a good camera for travel.

Canon G15 12.1 MP

 

Carry on luggage for easy airport and airline access

Carry on luggage

I’ve been doing research on an easy carry on bag for the last 7 or 8 months and found this about a week ago and decided this was one. Well it just went on sale, so had to pick it up.

I’ll be writing more about this piece of luggage soon.

It does meet the Airlines legal requirements for a carry on. Measurements are 21.5″ x 14.5″ x 9.5 and weighs in at 7.1 pounds.

Some planes have a skinny isle so wider carry on´s must be hand held. They´ll be no problems with this one.

The wheels are wide apart and there are 2 other ground contact points so the bag will stand up easily in any airport. There is also a full-length skid rail on the bottom for durability.

There’s 3 handles 2 on top and on the front.

So far I count 6 different compartments for easy packing and straps that can be tightened. These are just some of the features that make this the best piece of carry on luggage.

This carry on in the video is a little different than the one on sale, but you can see both from the link.