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For many photographers use a color checker nowdays it might sounds very old school and pretty useless in this modern era, but while it sounds a bit retró, a color checker is actually really useful, and in this video Mark Wallace is going to tell us why.

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I've been thinking to replace my Cactus V4 wireless flash trigger from a while, as they are not bad, they work most of the times, but not all the times, especially when you have to fire 2/3 flashes at the same time. So I'm starting to take a look around and see what other options I have, and while in the past I wasn't really a big fan of Yongnuo, after I bought a Yongnuo flash few months ago I drastically changed my opinion about this brand, and their new flash triggers seem to be pretty good, still not au-pair with brands like PocketWizard, but you can get 4 transceiver for the price of one PockerWizard. But are they good? Dunno, but according to this video review by Phil Steele it sounds like a good product, not perfect, but still good.

I always loved reflectors, they are inexpensive, portable, easy to use, and extremely effective, and I use them everytime I can.
In this video by SRL Lounge's editor Lauri Laukkanen, he is going to show us how he shot one of his pictures using only the sunlight as a main source of light and using two reflectors to bounce the light into the subject.

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I just stole this video from Fstoppers, where Chris Knight shows one way to developer RAW files in Lightroom 5 and to get as much as possible of dynamic range, and that's one of the reason you should always shoot in RAW, as this format keeps alll the information the sensor of your camera can catch, information that would be lost if you shoot in JPEG.
Bear in mind that this is one method, not THE method.

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A few weeks ago I was looking for the prices for the Samyang 24mm f/1.4 on Amazon, an affordable wide prime lens, when I noticed that just underneath tha lens, it was listed the following lens, the Samyang 24mm T1.5 lens, which is essentially the same lens but for videographers, with a better focus ring. But while it was pretty clear that the T1.5 was related to the max aperture for the lens, I didn't really understand why it was using a weird value (1.5) and why the T and not the usual "f".
The answer is simple: while the f number indicates area of the aperture of the blades, the T value indicates the amount of light that ends on the sensor of our cameras, and because light has to pass through the different pieces of glass in our lens (I didn't want to say lenses of a lens, it sounds weird to me), which reflect and/or absorb light, you will never get the 100% of light transmission, and the T number indicates the real amount of light that ends on the sensor. But as I'm terrible to explain how things works, and I doubt I will ever present an episode of MythBusters, maybe it's better if you just watch the video above, where Matt Granger explains, way better than me, what's the difference between the F Stop and the T Stop number.
(via ThatNikonGuy)

We often see Aaron Nace of Phlearn.com behind his laptop showing us great tricks on Photoshop, but he is also a really good photographer, and in this video he is going to show us the behind the scenes of how he made one of his recent work.

(via Phlearn.com)

At this stage we all know the main new feautures of the version of Lightroom, like the upright tool or the radial gradient, but in this video Julieanne Kost is going to show us some of the hidden gems that not everybody know and that may be very useful for your workflow.

I know, in the past few days I kinda forgot about this blog, but I've been superbusy and I really couldn't find a minute to write a post. Anyway, I've a couple of articles on the way, but while I'm still working on them I wanted to share this cool tutorial from Aaron Nace of Phlearn.com, which is going to explain us how to blend patterns to our photos in Photoshop.

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In this interesting, and quite long (about 47 minutes), Joel Grimes explains the process he uses to create his amazing composite portraits. It is a bit long, but he goes through every single steps of his work process. Really, really interesting.

(via FStoppers)

In this very interesting video, SLRLounge contributor Lauri Laukkanen is going to show us three different techniques to increase the sharpness of an image in Photoshop.
Personally I prefer the first one (and I guess is the same for Lauri), but I use slightly different settings, like I stay between 1 and 2 in the High Pass Filter, and then I used Overlay, but at the end the result is the same.

(via Lauri Laukkanen)