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Amazon Announces ‘Prime Day’ with More Deals than Black Friday

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Prime Day

Amazon has announced Prime Day, a one-day shopping event for Amazon Prime members that takes place next Wednesday, July 15.

Amazon says that it will offer more deals than Black Friday (and it always has a ton of great deals on Black Friday).

Obviously, this is a ploy to get more people to sign up for Amazon Prime memberships. That said, I’ve been an Amazon Prime member for years and have always been happy with my membership benefits.

Aside from the free 2-day shipping, Amazon Prime offers a ton of other benefits with free instant video, Prime music, photo storage and lots more.

You can learn more about Prime Day here on Amazon.com.

I’ll post any great photography or video deals that I see next week on Prime Day.

GoPro Unveils Tiny New HERO4 Session Camera

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GoPro HERO4 Session

Today, GoPro announced a new, ultra-compact camera, the HERO4 Session. It is a small 1.5″ cube camera that bears a striking resemblance to the Polaroid Cube. Consequently, Polaroid launched its next generation Cube+ camera today as well – although I don’t think it will be getting the same attention as GoPro’s new camera… [Read more…]

Lightroom Tip: How to Add Images to a Collection on Import

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Lightroom-Tip-Collections-on-Import

Collections are a powerful organizing tool inside of Adobe Lightroom, which lets you group photos together that may or may not be found in the same folder of your overall file organization. You can create Collections for portraits, landscapes, specific individuals and infinite other selection criteria.

One of the newer features in Lightroom is that you now have the ability to add images to a Collection during import. It is a simple and straightforward process that might save you quite a bit of time in organization that you would otherwise do later. [Read more…]