The events of September 11, 2001 have given certain authorities the excuse to illegally harass and intimidate photographers. Your best defense against this is be informed and know your position within the law. In this information piece on photography and the law, Senior Editor James Booth provides some tips and resources on how to ensure you remain within the law and protect your rights.

Here at Connected Photographer, we like to bring you information straight from leading experts on various photographic topics. This week, I had the opportunity to interview Kelly Thomas, a Web developer and entrepreneur who’s managed to make money from real estate photography. His specialty is setting up virtual tours. In this interview, he tells us how he does it.

When photographer Jackie Kamp sent in a letter about how to find basic portrait lighing gear, Senior Editor James Booth came to the rescue. If you’d like to know what to look for in a lighting package, you should read this article.

Lowepro has taken their well-known standards of quality and expertise and applied them to the camera strap market. Read on, as Senior Editor James Booth shares his thoughts on each.

In the July 2006 issue of Connected Photographer Magazine, Photoshop guru Jane Conner-ziser gave an excellent tutorial on how to remove eyeglass glare using Photoshop. But what if you don’t have Photoshop? Or any way to get your images into Photoshop? In this helpful tip, Senior Editor James Booth shows you how to eliminate eyeglass glare when taking the picture.

In photos, the vertical walls of buildings often converge at the top due to the tilt of the camera at exposure, resulting in unwanted distortions. Now, with the magic of Photoshop, your images can appear as straight and undistorted as you imagined when you took the picture. In this edition of our Photoshop Guru series, legendary Photoshop expert Jack Davis helps us make our buildings stand straight and tall.

This month, we had the opportunity to interview Mike Sager, a VP at Kingston Technology, the world’s largest independent memory manufacturer. Mike helped us explore two interesting issues: the future of flash memory and how Kingston supports its flash memory customers.

What happens when you pair up WiFi networking with photography? Is it like oil and water or chocolate and peanut butter? Is anything really like chocolate and peanut butter? I mean, really? Take your protein pills and put your helmet on. Commencing countdown. WiFi, as we’ll show, isn’t the best use of your camera’s silicon.

My buddy Steve loves Macs. They’re all he can talk about. All you need to do is simply say the word "Mac" and he’s off on a run, telling you exactly what he thinks of them. Given his enthusiasm for all things Macintosh, you can understand how he was excited by a site that he discovered that helps you make "those really cool Mac OSX gel styles that are really popular right now."

In this strange, little review, we take a look at a very sweet line of camera bags worthy of a 4-star review. It’s just that you’re probably never going to buy them, even though you should. Sadly, while you and I live in 2006, the company selling these products is pretty much stuck back in 1986.