First off, I would like to thank all of the 900+ people who attended my webinar with Topaz Labs. And also a super high 5 to Nichole for organizing it!

The hour went by so fast that I didn’t get a chance to show you even half of what I had prepared. It’ll be for the next one then!

For those of you who missed my “Photographic Journey through Greece”, the video is now live! Make yourself a nice Greek salad, sit back and Continue Reading »

Hello fellow YPS readers! I’m finally back with a new Photoshop Video Tutorial!

This is a quick and easy tutorial on how to create awesome grunge effects in Photoshop simply by using blending modes. All you need is one of your photos, a texture and Photoshop! If you don,t have textures, just go out and shoot your sidewalk, walls or whatever that looks good. Or if you’re too lazy, just Google “free textures”.

Enjoy the tutorial and stay tunes soon for details on Continue Reading »

For those of you who follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you’ll know that I recently took a lovely trip to Costa Rica. Of course, traveling means travel photography (and video)! And, in Costa Rica, you focus on nature in all its grandeur! Of course the wildlife was at the forefront of my imagery including tons of birds but the landscape was also breathtaking.

In this Lightroom video tutorial, I’ll show you how to bring the most potential out of your landscape images. You can apply these Continue Reading »

This is the third and last Lightroom 3 video tutorial that I’ll be posting on the new and upgraded features in this wonderful software. There are more new tweaks and upgrades but, for me, these three are the major ones that will affect the quality of my work. If you’d like more detailed tutorials on Lightroom 3, I invite you to sign up to any of the Lightroom 3 tutorials from Kelby Training.

In this Lightroom 3 video tutorial, I’ll be covering the upgrades made to the watermarking feature. You’ll notice that you Continue Reading »

As you guys know, I’m a big fan of Lightroom. And with Lightroom 3 out, I’ve discovered many cool tweaks and upgrades like super fast importing and disk deletion as well as image preview generation. They seem like little things but it just keeps time on your side just a bit more.

On top of that, the guys over at Adobe added a great new feature in Lightroom 3 that I just love! Tethering. No more need for Continue Reading »

It’s been a while since my last video tutorial but I’m back with a microphone that actually works now. So I thought I would test it out on a new tutorial.

Lightroom 3 just came out a few days ago and I couldn’t miss the opportunity to show you my favorite new upgrade. This isn’t a new feature in Lightroom 3. It’s an upgrade. But what an upgrade it is. It’s the luminance noise reduction. I actually never used it in Lightroom 2 since Continue Reading »

I did a shoot back in February for one of my regular clients that was more fashion oriented. It was a 3-day shoot here in Montreal at the Blah Blah Studio.

The most important thing was to have consistent lighting throughout the 3 days since the chosen photos would be used for both the cover and chapter openers. Continuity was the key.

So we spent roughly 30 minutes testing various lighting setups. From simple one light to more complex with up to Continue Reading »

Spring is just around the corner and my urge as a passionate nature photographer, is to jump in my car and drive to the nearest national or provincial park and take photos of  wildlife as they emerge from the cold slumber of winter. I get a real kick out of observing wildlife in their natural habitat and I do need to practice some important strategies if I want to capture those perfect wildlife photos from the driver’s seat of my car.

So I thought I would share with you how to take wildlife photos from the car to get those perfect shots.  So let’s Continue Reading »

I don’t remember that last time I did some self portraits. It’s the old photographer’s dilemma… always behind the lens and never in front of it! Since I live about a block away from my good buddy and fellow pro photographer Martin Perreault, he usually takes my photo.  But this time around, he was away on a 3 week trip to Australia and I really wanted to update my blog photo on the ABOUT YPS page.

I decided to make this a fun time and turn this into a mini fashion shoot with some of my recently acquired threads. So I cranked up the tunes, set my D300s on a tripod with a 10 second timer and shot away! It took about 2 hours in total with 163 shots taken. Out of those shots I liked 22. Not bad.  Here’s how I Continue Reading »

If you haven’t heard yet, Lightroom 2 is great! Ok, ok you might have heard me mention it a few times but learning is about repetition. 

So here I was post processing my Greece photos in Lightroom playing around with the main basic adjustment sliders when I thought to myself… hey! this kinda looks like an HDR photo. So I tweaked and tweaked until I got a pretty cool HDR look that looked cool. Then I thought that you guys might like to know how to do it too.  So here I am.

Now, before I go on, and before the true Continue Reading »