Posts by Author: Allen Mowery
Allen Mowery is a Nationally-published Commercial & Editorial Photographer with over 20 years of experience. He has shot for major brands as well small clients. When not shooting client work or chasing overgrown wildlife from his yard, he loves to capture the stories of the people and culture around him.
These Are the Most Stunning Landscape Images from Google Earth
Aug 7, 2015
Allen Mowery
Google Earth is an incredible program with many practical applications. For instance, I use it frequently for creating custom files for my handheld GPS and…
Turn Your Smartphone Into an Awesome Macro Camera With This Simple Hack
Aug 7, 2015
Allen Mowery
Smartphones are great, whether you’re grabbing quick snapshots of the kids smearing icing on themselves, making a low-budget film (they’re surprisingly good, actually), or immortalizing…
How To Get The Dehaze Feature for Lightroom 6 For Free
Aug 7, 2015
Allen Mowery
We’ve been sharing with you some of the incredible results photographers are getting with Lightroom’s new dehaze feature. But, those who sprung for the Lightroom 6 proprietary version have…
How To Build a Programmable Time Lapse Motion Control Platform For $150
Aug 6, 2015
Allen Mowery
Time lapse videos are incredible beasts, especially when coupled with dynamic angles and camera movement. However, purchasing a motion control rig for creating time lapse…
How To Easily Get a Cinematic Look From Your dSLR Video
Aug 6, 2015
Allen Mowery
Achieving a “film look” is something that most aspiring filmmakers strive to accomplish. We always want our work to appear as masterpieces, but sometimes we…
Why You Should Never ‘Hire’ a Photography Assistant For Free
Aug 5, 2015
Allen Mowery
There are countless discussions about working for free in the photo industry and many points both for and against the practice. This is here is…
Good-Bye Polarized Filters: Olympus Patents Polarized Sensor Technology
Aug 4, 2015
Allen Mowery
Polarizing filters are almost mandatory for landscape photography, but they have a few drawbacks. The first is obvious: the hassle of having to carry filters…
See Nature Come Alive In This Incredible Time-Lapse Landscape Video
Aug 4, 2015
Allen Mowery
Time-lapse videos are a spectacle to behold and have been taking the photography world by storm the last several years. Not to be outdone, Andrew Studer…
First Photoshop CC Update Fixes ‘Salt Line’ Artifacts and Crashing
Aug 4, 2015
Allen Mowery
We all like a little salt and pepper every now and then, but we aren’t huge fans of Photoshop adding it to our photos at…
Fuji Announces the X-T1 IR, the World’s First Infrared Mirrorless Camera
Aug 3, 2015
Allen Mowery
We’ve previously shared how you can convert your existing dSLR to shoot infrared images, but this approach is very touchy, technical, and would most assuredly…