My product pick this week is the Wacom intuos5 Small Pen Tablet. I am using the USB model. A wireless kit is sold separately.
I've been using Wacom tablets at home for years. Now I take this small, compact and lightweight model on the road with me when I'm teaching my digital photography workshops and giving my seminars.
If you work (and play) in Photoshop or Lightroom, and burn and dodge, and selectively adjust specific areas of an image, the Wacom Pen Tablet is the way to go - because you can use the pressure-sensitive Pen like an artist uses a paintbrush and the Tablet like a canvas. That's how I enhanced the above image, which I took during a workshop in Venice, Italy.
What's cool about the Wacom Pen Tablet is that you can customize the controls - like an artist mixes paints. But there's more: you can actually use your fingers on the tablet for additional creative control (including zoom, pan and tilt). Note: the ghost image of a painting that you may see in the above image is an image I'm working on for a project.
As I mentioned, I have the Wacom Intuos5 Small Pen Tablet. For at-home, all-the-time use, check out the Large model.
Here's another image that I enhanced with the help of my Wacom Pen Tablet. Try signing your name on an image with a mouse. :-)
Explore the light,
Rick
P.S. Both of the subjects in these images were lit with the same equipment: Canon Speedlite in the Westcott Apollo Softbox. All my gear is listed on My Gear Page.