The Right Tool for the Right Job - Sleeklens Presets and Brushes

Hey my fellow photogs!

Wanted to share with you a great new set of tools that I think you should add to your post-production work flows.  The good people at Sleeklens have an amazing offering of Lightroom and Photoshop presets and brushes that will really bring some snap to your photos and help you elevate your photography skills to the next level.  They have a wide range of packages of LR and PS presets and brushes geared towards all types of photography and techniques such as portraits, landscapes, products, textures, moods, seasons and affects.

I've had the opportunity to use their "Through the Woods" workflow for LR and I can honestly say I've found my new set of favorite tools.  Wow!  The wide range of presets, from the dramatic to the serene, are simply fantastic.  I know the challenge for many of us landscape photographers is capturing the "feeling" we have when we photograph landscapes.  The extensive preset options available in this package really makes it easy to find that perfect preset that brings out exactly what we are trying to capture.  The supporting adjustment brushes give the photographer so much flexibility when it comes to fine tuning an image.  This is really one of the best collection of post-production tools I've ever had the privilege to use.

Getting down to basics - the cost?  MORE than reasonable.  Installation and use?  About as easy as it can get.  I really encourage all of you to visit Sleeklens and check out all their product offerings.  You won't be disappointment.  See my before and after photos below.

https://sleeklens.com/product/landscape-lightroom-presets/

https://sleeklens.com/product-category/lightroom-presets

https://sleeklens.com/product/professional-photo-editing-service/

It's Inevitable, Part 2...

This was a post from my "Guten 365" blog back in 2012.  I've made a few modifications and updated to mark the times.  Certainly this is not a comprehensive list.  Feel free to add as you see fit.

1. When you're running late, you'll hit every traffic light.
2. A piece of toast or open faced peanut butter sandwich will always fall face down.
3. Your transmission will fail shortly after you receive an unexpected bonus from work.
4. Your phone will go off mute just as you're baby talkin' to your dog or yelling at your kids.
5. A person with 30+ items, a checkbook and no understanding of the concept of exchanging money for goods will step in the express checkout line in front of you.
6. Your car will need gas as you're late for an engagement.
7. The one time your team is on TV they lose horribly.
8. For you photographers, while in the middle of Photoshop-ing a highly complicated retouching project that you spent four hours on, your computer will suddenly crash.
9. While creating your patented turkey and cheese sandwich you discover there is no cheese. 
10. The day you feel like being lazy and making it a "movie day", all you can find on TV are Lindsay Lohan or Hillary Duff movies, or Swamp People marathons.
11. When you're hoping to get their voice mail, they pick up.
12. When you need them to pick up, you get their voice mail.
13. When you're surrounded by a bunch of people, with no means of escape, the chili you had for lunch will kick in. 
14. The day you decide to take a vacation day from work, an office emergency will require you to come in.
15. On the day of your big social event, a zit the size of Mt. Kilimanjaro will appear on your face.
16. The restaurant you've been Jones-ing to go to will be closed for renovations the night of your big, romantic evening.
17. After a long week and you're heading home from work on a Friday and you need some rockin', pick me up tunes, the only songs playing on the radio are songs by Air Supply, Coldplay, Oasis or Rush.
18. Your absolute, most favorite shirt will get a stain.
19. When you DESPERATELY need toilet paper there will be none.
20. Of the 60 days of record heat and dryness, the day you plan a barbeque is the one day it rains.
21. The toner cartridge of your printer will run out when you have to print a report for your boss.
22. That item you've spent months saving for and finally bought will be on sale the day after you bought it.
23. Your pants button will pop off as you're frantically getting ready for work.
24. Smoke alarm batteries will die in the middle of the night ("CHIRP, CHIRP, CHIRP!!")
25. Your baby's diaper will explode as you're heading out the door.
26. The biggest, widest person imaginable will be assigned the seat next to you on the airplane.
27. The drunk person will always have the room next to yours.
28. The car that refuses to drive the speed limit nor move over will eventually kick up that one, tiny rock that nicks your windshield.
29. The post office clerk will put up the sign "Use Next Counter" just when it's your turn.
30. Your boss will call a meeting on a Friday afternoon.

The bottom line is, when you need something to be this way, life will almost always conspire against you to make it that way, or so it seems.