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Beyond the Lens with Matt Suess – Photography Journal & Blog

There is snow in the Santa Fe Mountains

By Matt Suess | September 23, 2013

A cold front that moved in overnight left some snow in the peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains just east of Santa Fe, NM for the first time this season. I drove to an elevation of 10,000 feet and found the aspens just starting to change color. Photographed with my iPhone and enhanced with […]

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Modifying my Wacom Intuos Pro tablet

By Matt Suess | September 22, 2013

I am really liking my new Wacom Intuos Pro tablet that I just bought to replace my old Intuos 2. Tons of options for awesome touch screen capabilities, customizable buttons, different brush tips, etc. Nice!

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New Intuos Pro tablet

By Matt Suess | September 22, 2013

After 10 years my trusty Intuos 2 graphics tablet started showing signs of dying – can’t wait to start using its new replacement with the Wacom Intuos Pro Professional Pen & Touch Tablet (Small)

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Phase One updates Capture One Pro to v7.1.4

By Matt Suess | September 19, 2013

Phase One, the company that makes the excellent Capture One Software (a Lightroom replacement) has just updated the software to version 7.1.4. As to the release notes, support for new cameras and lens profiles was added, as well as stability and performance improvements.

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Vintage Coca Cola – an old soda refrigerator

By Matt Suess | September 19, 2013

I found this old Coke refrigerator next to an old wood wagon and some prickly pear cactus in Northern New Mexico near Santa Fe and Taos. In fact I photographed this with my students during a photo workshop Christine and I were teaching in Santa Fe/Taos in 2011. While this was photographed in 2011, I […]

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Is Adobe still trying to screw us Photographers??

By Matt Suess | September 18, 2013

So here we are – Adobe has officially made their Photoshop Photography Program available for purchase online. If you already own Photoshop CS3 or higher you are eligible for a Creative Cloud membership for just $9.99/month that includes Photoshop CC, Lightroom 5, 20GB of online storage, access to creative cloud training resources, and ongoing upgrades […]

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Sunrise at the Santa Fe Railyard

By Matt Suess | September 17, 2013

It is never fun when the alarm clock goes off at 4:30 am. But that is what I have to deal with when doing art shows. Today I had to set up for a show at the Railyard in Santa Fe with the Santa Fe Artisan’s Market, right next to the farmers market. Arriving at […]

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Profile of my photography business from SalesVu

By Matt Suess | September 16, 2013

For the last few years I have been processing my credit card transactions through the popular Square App on my iPhone and iPad. In June of this year I heard of a company called SalesVu that is a complete POS (Point of Sale) system for the iPhone and iPad that offers a rate lower than […]

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Sunrise at the Court of the Patriarchs in Zion National Park Utah

By Matt Suess | September 11, 2013

In the fall of 2012 I spent over a week photographing at Zion National Park in Utah during the fall foliage season. I was there to scout shooting locations for my 2013 Fall Foliage in Zion National Park Photography Workshop and I photographed this scene at the Court of the Patriarchs at sunrise. Normally I am not a […]

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Rainy day in Santa Fe

By Matt Suess | September 10, 2013

It is not often that we get almost a full day of rain here in Santa Fe, NM. Thanks to a huge monsoon push we are in for a rainy week. Today already we had over an inch of rain before 6pm. In my home state of CT an inch of rain is nothing but […]

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