Tutorials — May 2014

It used to be that a third party noise reduction software like Noise Ninja was necessary to lessen noise in photos. However, once Lightroom’s noise reduction capabilities were updated in Version 3 and are still on par with Lightroom Version 5, Lightroom can effectively diminish noise in photos as good as Noise Ninja or any other third party noise reduction...
I grew up watching volcanic eruption videos instead of Sesame Street—both of my parents are geologists. With my father currently living in the Hawaiian Islands and his 30+ years experience dealing with volcanoes, it only made sense to go on an adventure to the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii. I have always loved volcanoes and was excited to arrive in Hawaii...
The year was 1980. And the Russian hockey team was heavily favored to win the gold. With one game left to advance to the final, they just had to defeat the U.S., which everyone knew they would. And then the impossible happened, Mike Eruzione sent the puck into the net with 10 minutes left in the final period—putting the U.S....