Photography Education, Madison Wisconsin Photographers

Adobe Express Tools That Can Help Amateur Photographers

Oct 16, 2023

Want to take time to thank Jen Smith for this fantastic article! It's always a great honor to be able to work with professionals to get useful information to our industry. Enjoy and reach out if you have any questions, thanks so much Jen!!! If you're an amateur photographer looking for a user-friendly and efficient photo editing app, Adobe Express might be the perfect solution for you. This app offers a wide range of features that can help you enhance your photos and make them look ...

The Importance of Light Meters in the Digital Age

Feb 13, 2015

I realize that being in the photographic arena for over three decades that my feelings about the light meter are biased. As a professional photographer it was and is my job to understand the tools of my trade and be able to relate them to the very image I am producing. I can come to the understanding that the statement of the age is that the histogram is the light meter of the twenty-first century, but that doesn’t mean I have to agree with it. With ...

Using the ColorChecker Passport

Mar 14, 2014

In the last issue, I went over the in’s and out’s of purchasing monitors and calibration devices to establish proper color balance on your monitors. In this next series (part two), I will look at taking the next step on how to reduce your image processing time and improve quality control in your Raw workflow by combining the powerful color capabilities of the ColorChecker Passport.This device allows you to quickly ...

Understanding Calibration

Feb 03, 2014

In today’s photography, processing images on the computer has brought us the responsibility of learning new methods to control color and tone from the older ways of the cc filter, control strips, densitometer readings, etc. Digital Imaging is here to stay, along with the evolution of the methods we use to control color management. We can either except the new ways of imaging or find ourselves extinct like the dinosaurs of a time long ago. My first experience with ...

Calibration Devices, Monitor calibration for photographers

Jan 07, 2014

Jas, great question and thanks for asking! I prefer the XRite devices over some of the rest only because the ease of use, programming and cost. Some of the key things you should be looking for is that your calibration device can do Luminance, White Point and Gamma, those are all very important in the process kind of like ISO, shutter speed, and F-Stop is to your exposure. I will be publishing a full article by weeks end to walk you through some of the key points, but at this ...

Opening the Blog!

Dec 03, 2013

Alright, the first Blog post on the Rick Trummer Consulting Website! My hope is that this can be used as a question and answer area of the site to better communicate with all that use my consulting services, so ask away. I get a lot of calls during the day which I love to take, but if you just have a quick question and don't think you need to call, just post and the hope is we can work as a team to get the best solutions out there. I work with a lot of industry leaders, so ...