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Brandon Oelling

Biography

For more than 10 years Brandon Oelling has been at the helm of x=photography+consulting, working with photographers and studios both old and new to demystify technology and break down the complexities that surround digital workflow. Leveraging his extensive engineering background and fine arts training, Brandon's expertise in best practices, planning, and execution strategy for RAW digital workflow and digital asset management (DAM) has helped him bring many a client into the new age of photography - minus the 'kicking and screaming'.

With the advent of increasingly powerful digital camera products and technologies, a massive shift is taking place in the photography industry, and Brandon has been closely involved in this change since the early beginnings.

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Lightroom Tip O' the Week

January 14 2009

Before we get to the goodies this week, I wanted to take a moment to thank Mark Sirota, Bob DiNatale, Jao van de Lagemaat, Gene McCullagh, and Mike Aaland for a great set of posts this month. With 2009 in... read more

Lightroom Tip O' the Week

December 18 2008

Stacks are pretty cool … I use them quite a bit while I shuffle around images in Library mode. There’s a very nice shortcut for creating and collapsing stacks that I’m totally digging lately … it’s ultra-simple: Select the images... read more

Lightroom Tip O' the Week

December 09 2008

This weeks tip has been around since version 1.0 of Lightroom, and although I personally do not use it that often, it’s a great image inspection technique. Normally, I’m pushing images to 72ppi for proofing on the web, which... read more

Soft Focus - Hocus Pocus

December 02 2008

Sticking to my promise to expose more complete details on my workflow for select projects, we’re going to look at a detailed workflow leveraging one of Lightroom 2.0’s localized correction tools. This post roots itself in my previous tutorial... read more

Total Workflow - Part II

July 07 2008

I received a lot of emails in response to last weeks post from viewers asking me (and others - like YOU) to document our workflow in detail for some select projects. We tend to provide a lot of small snippets... read more

Total Workflow

June 26 2008

I find that what photographers really need aside from specific direction (ie. How do i do XYZ in Lightroom?) is a sense of the big picture, a sense of why we make one decision over another, and how it all... read more

Lightning Quick Gallery and Version Creation

June 19 2008

Wedding photographers shoot a lot of photos … not just a few hundred - I’m talking thousands of photos per shoot. This has always presented some unique challenges for our studio as we process images and create galleries for clients... read more

Proportional Exposure Control

June 12 2008

I don’t use the Quick Develop Panel. There I said it … I’m as guilty as the next person for having ignored what is truly a powerful tool in Lightroom. Sure I’ve played around with some Alt key trickery but... read more

RPG Keys - Lightroom Editing

June 04 2008

This weeks post is going to be brief as I am TOTALLY addicted to my new toy - RPG KEYS from Riley Photographic This is one of those products that leaves us all saying “why didn’t I think of that?”... read more

Pick, Pick, Reject

May 27 2008

With the summer months fast approaching, the last thing I want to do is spend more time staring at my monitor. Every tip and technique that enables me to speed up my workflow, give me some control over my freetime,... read more

Page Down, Page Down, Page Down

May 16 2008

On a recent project, I was preparing a series of images for print on a high resolution press (Fuji Frontier 590 to be exact) and I found myself obsessing about removing any residual sensor noise or image imperfections from my... read more

Lazy Man's Auto Sync

May 09 2008

While processing another massive batch of images, I boasted with pride to my team how Auto Sync is streamlining my workflow. All the while, I flicked my Alt, Ctrl, and Command keys like Beethoven as I waxed prophetic on my... read more

Alt-ered States

May 02 2008

Continuing on with my exploration of time-saving keyboard tricks, I have become a huge fan of using the {Alt} key (mac or PC) to quickly access two functions I use daily: Tone Control and Export as Catalog. During my... read more

Sync, or be Sync'd

April 30 2008

Auto Sync has changed my life. I have easily squeezed an hour out of my workflow by making Auto Sync a primary tool in my arsenal. I won’t go so far as to say Auto Sync is a ‘hidden’ control,... read more

Have XMP, Will Travel

April 18 2008

Our team process a lot of photos, i mean A LOT of photos. 10 Terabytes (TB) worth of images have been know to fly through our studio on a weekly basis as we process and deliver a myriad of jobs... read more

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