SmugMug Review

Don’t forget to check out the SmugMug Review here on the site if you haven’t lately!

Arctic Swell – Surfing the Ends of the Earth with Chris Burkard

Here’s an amazing new film from SmugMug and Anton Lorimer. Check it out!

Daily Photo – Walking to the Summer Palace in Beijing

Here’s one of the many ornate bridges I saw while walking around the many lakes at the Summer Palace. I decided to do a treatment with the new Analog Efex Pro 2 from Nik/Google. The original photo was pretty good, but it felt a little boring or something. The texture and the feel was not right… so I spent a fun 15 minutes in AEP2 to make it the right kind of interesting!

Walking to the Summer Palace in Beijing

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• Date Taken2014-05-27 00:29:20
• CameraILCE-7R
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/1500
• Aperture
• ISO1000
• Focal Length
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

The New Arcanum Trailer!

Here it is! We also just put this up on The Arcanum website. I know thousands and thousands of you have applied and are still waiting in the Neverending Orphanage of Lost and Forgotten Souls. You drift about like wayward wraiths, waiting for a Master to choose you, plucking you out of your perennial purgatory.

But we are going slow on purpose and hand-choosing Masters and training them up on the culture and the leveling system. We currently have between 20 and 30 Masters, each of which are averaging about 17 Apprentices each. We could amp it up at any time, but we’re trying to do this right. No one has ever built a system like this, so the whole team is keeping this as organic and special as possible. We’ll hit scale soon enough, so we really appreciate your patience! 🙂

Here’s one of the newest blog posts from one of our Apprentices, Tricia Booker!

Heroes of The Arcanum – Volunteers Creating a Magical Experience for You!

Check out the Heroes Of The Arcanum! I’m so happy to have these amazing people behind the scenes volunteering to make the whole Arcanum experience even more rewarding.

Thank you Tania Court, Tiff Gilleland, Tanya Wallis, Chris Thompson, and Daniel Levy so much! You’ll get to know these five better over time… Pete, Curtis, and I are very thankful for yalls, as is everyone else in The Arcanum!

Daily Photo – The Sun Drifts Away Into Time

Southern China! It’s so wild and untouched! Well that’s not totally true. It’s mostly untouched. When you do find the occasional town, they can be a bit third-worldy in terms of trash and architectural squalor. They are not terrible and dangerous, just a bit, well, rough-looking. There are quaint parts that are authentic and charming, but often times there is too much detritus strewn about to make you feel totally comfortable. At least, this is the way it is to me. But I like escaping kind of far away from those places, up into hills like this where everything is back in its natural and beautiful state.

The Sun Drifts Away Into Time

Photo Information

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• Date Taken2014-06-07 00:05:28
• CameraILCE-7R
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/160
• Aperture8
• ISO125
• Focal Length70.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias-0.3

Upcoming PhotoWalk in Dallas!

It looks like it’s gonna be on September 5! I’m very excited about it… details to come, but block off that evening!

Denver PhotoWalk Winners!

And now, for the two Grand Prize winners in Denver! Sorry it took me so long! Both of you receive Trey’s Complete HDR Tutorial! Just contact [email protected] and he can get you set up.

Prize #1 for Dan Sanabria – A very interesting shot of as the evening light splashed across one of the facades.

Prize #2 for Michael Kleih – what a smart shot!

And here’s a bunch of the #StuckInDenver photos that were posted on G+!

Daily Photo – Monk on a Trike

I visited this wonderful monastery and temple in Beijing. I arrived there just as they were getting a delivery. Monks would ride these specialized trikes back and forth to ferry the goods back to their living area. You’ll never guess what is under that blanket. And I’m not kidding. About 100 Red Bulls!

Monk on a Trike

Photo Information

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• Date Taken2014-05-31 15:20:03
• CameraILCE-7R
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/6400
• Aperture
• ISO100
• Focal Length
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramShutter speed priority AE
• Exposure Bias+0.7

Updated Camera Gear Pages

Since Sony has now kinda renamed all their NEX stuff to Sony Alpha stuff, we’ve redone the “Trey’s Gear” page here on the site with Good, Better, and Best. I know it looks like I’m a total Sony shill, but they actually don’t pay me to say any of that… I love my A7r so much that I even bought a second one! Hehe… anyway. Related to that, btw, is the Leica Lens Buying Guide if you want to equip your new Sony with some Leica lenses. Be sure to look at the R-lenses there too — they are quite affordable!

Also new on there is the DJI Phantom Review, among other things.

Denver PhotoWalk Prizes

Sorry for being a bit recalcitrant in the Denver PhotoWalk Grand Prize winners! I will get on that soon – I will not forget. I promise! :

Daily Photo – The Summer Palace

This is my third time to visit The Summer Palace in Beijing and the first time I’ve ever gotten a photo I liked! This is one of those places where you’re gonna walk for many many miles if you want to see all the angles. This spot was about 4 miles from where I entered, and the palace was closing soon. Luckily, I found another exit so I didn’t have to walk back all that way. Honestly, I could have used the exercise, but, also, honestly, I didn’t really want to do it.

The Summer Palace

Photo Information

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• Date Taken2014-05-27 00:42:25
• CameraILCE-7R
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/5
• Aperture5.6
• ISO160
• Focal Length50.0 mm
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
• Exposure Bias

Grab it now and join the Live Event on Aug 7!

We just announced the Lightroom Tutorial! It’s the latest thing I’ve released, and I think you’re really gonna love it. It’s for beginners and beyond. We get into some pretty advanced stuff in the end, but don’t let that scare you if you’re a beginner… I take you through everything step-by-step. You’re going to be surprised all the fun cool stuff you learn in Lightroom!

LIVE Photo Editing and Q&A event on August 7th at 6PM PDT

If you purchase Trey’s Lightroom Tutorial before August 8th you’ll get an extra 20% off (use the coupon code LIGHTROOMWEB) and you’ll be invited to Trey’s exclusive LIVE Photo Edit and Q&A session. Can’t make it? No worries, we’ll record the whole thing for you!

Before and After Images

Now, let’s me show you some before/after action! 🙂 These are all just single images and only edited with Lightroom.

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Daily Photo – Wondering Girl in the Rain

It’s hard to say which of the photos I edit in the Lightroom Tutorial are my favorite, but this is certainly one of them. You can see the original above, and it’s not all that different, but there is something very nice and magical that is transformed when the colors are moved about a little bit… Maybe you can see what I mean! 🙂

This girl was walking around in the wet streets of Yangshao, China

Wondering Girl in the Rain

Photo Information

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• Date Taken2014-06-05 01:16:39
• CameraILCE-7R
• Camera MakeSony
• Exposure Time1/500
• Aperture
• ISO3200
• Focal Length
• FlashOff, Did not fire
• Exposure ProgramManual
• Exposure Bias

New Podcast on the Daily Travel Podcast

Nathaniel from the Daily Travel Podcast interviewed me recently. I’ll put the soundcloud player embed below. It was a fun discussion – thanks Nathaniel!

From their website:

What We Cover:

— How travel inspired Trey into a creative life of travel, photography, and creativity.
— How taking a creative approach towards your travel photography can help you get more from your travel experience, enhance your memories of the places you’ve been, better share the “feeling” of the places you’ve been, and expose and connect others to the world.
— HDR photography, what it is and why Trey went looking for it before it went mainstream.
— How the human race is becoming more and more connected, like a super organism and how travel relates to this.