"The
recent Creative Cloud announcement has left some of you feeling
hostage. You worry that you won't be able to upgrade cameras as they
won't be supported by the version of Adobe Camera Raw that you have. Here
are four solutions you should know about if you don't want to make the
move to the subscription model of Photoshop CC (priced at $9—$19 per
month"
Saturday, May 25, 2013
20 Photography Tips Every Travel Photographer Must Know
20 Photography Tips Every Travel Photographer Must Know
Read more: http://digital-photography-school.com/20-photography-tips-every-travel-photographer-must-know#ixzz2UE3TDnHt
Read more: http://digital-photography-school.com/20-photography-tips-every-travel-photographer-must-know#ixzz2UE3TDnHt
Fix in Lightroom Finish with onOne Software
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Friday, May 24, 2013
Camera Raw 8.1
Camera Raw for High-Resolution Displays
Camera Raw 8.1 Release Candidate now available at Adobe Labs offers support for HiDPI displays and new lens profiles.
How to Interpret/Understand and Use Histograms Effectively
A good article on histograms. Everyone should be "chimping" and checking their histogram after every image! Set up your camera to display the histogram (color and brightness) after every image capture. Lisa
How to Interpret/Understand and Use Histograms Effectively
"Histograms display a graphic representation of the exposure on a captured image. They provide highly accurate information, but their use is often misunderstood, or, worse yet, ignored."
"A "good" histogram doesn't have to stretch entirely from the left to right side to indicate proper overall exposure."
"Histograms – brightness only, or color information as well
Conventional histograms measure only brightness, as recorded (or about to be recorded) in an image file. But, it's possible to view histograms that not only show overall brightness, but the brightness of each color channel. Canon EOS cameras offer the choice to display a brightness histogram or a color (RGB) histogram."Hands-On With the Canon 200-400mm at the London Olympics
From Syl Arena's Blog
Click here to read the original post or to add a comment.
Guest Blog—Peter Read Miller: Hands-On With the Canon 200-400mm at the London Olympics
A guest blog for PixSylated by Peter Read Miller, Canon Explorer of Light
"Last summer, while on assignment for Sports Illustrated at the London Olympics, I was one of the lucky handful of photographers who were given a pre-production version of Canon’s EF 200-400mm f4L IS USM Lens with Internal 1.4x Extender to shoot during the games."
Click here to read the original post or to add a comment.
Quinnipiac University to host annual car show May 26
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The University will host the 19th Annual Memorial Day Weekend Car Show at 10
a.m. on Sunday, May 26, on the Mount Carmel Campus.
The annual event is sponsored by the Hamden Police Department and the Connecticut Classic Chevy Club. The show will feature classic cars, food vendors, prizes and live music by the Tercels. The rain date is Monday, May 27. For more information, visit the Connecticut Classic Chevy Club's website. |
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Pets, Weddings and Compositing Free Online Photography Courses
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Marissa Mayer -- sorry for misstatement on professional photographers
This certainly generated a of of conversation!
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer found herself in the spotlight earlier this week following a controversial statement made at Flickr’s NYC press event regarding pro photographers:
Marissa Mayer Sorry for “Misstatement” on Professional Photographers
Read more at http://petapixel.com/2013/05/22/marissa-mayer-sorry-for-misstatement-on-professional-photographers/#ShtLGw26Ix3VulyV.99
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer found herself in the spotlight earlier this week following a controversial statement made at Flickr’s NYC press event regarding pro photographers:
There’s no such thing as Flickr Pro today because [with so many people taking photographs] there’s really no such thing as professional photographers anymore.
Marissa Mayer Sorry for “Misstatement” on Professional Photographers
Read more at http://petapixel.com/2013/05/22/marissa-mayer-sorry-for-misstatement-on-professional-photographers/#ShtLGw26Ix3VulyV.99
Take a look at this roundup of Adobe CC videos:
A new version of Adobe Photoshop is out! Adobe Photoshop CC. Take a look at this roundup of Adobe CC videos: http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-blog/new-adobe-photoshop-cc-roundup/
Photoshop in Creative Cloud: How does it work?
Photoshop in Creative Cloud: How does it work?
Photoshop CC: Camera Shake Reduction: http://youtu.be/66yKdIXMAu8
Watch Photoshop Product Manager, Zorana Gee, show how you can save shots you thought were lost due to camera motion. Whether your blur was caused by slow shutter speed or a long focal length, Camera Shake Reduction analyzes its trajectory and helps restore sharpness.
Photoshop CC Overview: http://youtu.be/Bs6UJ70jMAI
Russell Brown’s Top 5 Features in Photoshop CC: http://youtu.be/03k8XqALcNg
Photoshop CC: All-New Smart Sharpen: http://youtu.be/jnnFdSQhlwk
All-new Smart Sharpen analyzes images to maximize clarity and minimize noise and halos, and lets you fine-tune for high-quality, natural-looking results.
Terry White’s Top 5 Favorite Features for Photographers in Photoshop CC: http://youtu.be/5hC3T0bOaPI
Julieanne Kost’s Top 5 Favorite Features for Photographers in Photoshop CC: http://youtu.be/Vjg4RtV4UAk
Julieanne Kost will demonstrate her top 5 favorite features in Photoshop CC including the new Upright, Radial Filter, and Advanced Healing Brush features in Adobe Camera Raw 8, and image upsampling and sharpening, Rounded Rectangles, and Camera Shake Reduction.
Photoshop CC: 3D Enhancements: http://youtu.be/WRI_rLi7tL4
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Need Your Sensor Cleaned?
| Need Your Sensor Cleaned? |
| Steve Traudt now offers sensor cleaning for digital SLR cameras. If you have black spots in your images, especially visible in the sky, then dust has settled onto the sensor area. Due to the specialized nature of the tools and techniques, you may prefer to let Steve take care of the problem. The cost is $30 for the crop size sensors and $40 for full frame sensors. Normal turn-around is 2 days. Same day rush for (if schedule allows) $10 extra. Please call Steve at: 970-245-6700 to schedule your cleaning. Or send an e-mail to Steve by clicking on the "Contact Us" link. For more info, please visit The Sensor Cleaning Page. |
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Topaz Clarity!
I love all of the Topaz plugins! So I am excited about incorporating this new one into my workflow. Lisa
Topaz Clarity is being released tomorrow, May 22nd!
It will retail for $49.99, but will be available at a special reduced price of $29.99 through May 31st with with this promo code: claritynew
Topaz Clarity is the ultimate tool to create compelling and powerful images by intelligently enhancing contrast and clarity with absolutely no artifacts or halos. With just a few clicks you can easily manipulate your micro, mid-tone and overall contrast, adding punch while maintaining the natural feeling and tonality you are after. Using a proprietary technology, Topaz Clarity effectively improves local contrast without halos or noise, giving you remarkable results with minimal effort.
Purchase it here
Topaz Clarity is being released tomorrow, May 22nd!
It will retail for $49.99, but will be available at a special reduced price of $29.99 through May 31st with with this promo code: claritynew
Topaz Clarity is the ultimate tool to create compelling and powerful images by intelligently enhancing contrast and clarity with absolutely no artifacts or halos. With just a few clicks you can easily manipulate your micro, mid-tone and overall contrast, adding punch while maintaining the natural feeling and tonality you are after. Using a proprietary technology, Topaz Clarity effectively improves local contrast without halos or noise, giving you remarkable results with minimal effort.
Topaz Clarity uses proprietary technology that allows you to
quickly and easily adjust various levels of
contrast with no halos or artifacts.
The results are compelling images with a very natural look. Here is a quick look at some of the features:
Clarity
Module- The Dynamics section of this module
allows you to selectively adjust contrast in your image, without adding halos
or artifacts, resulting in a very natural looking, yet compelling image. The contrast sliders range from micro to
high, and refer to the original image contrast variations allowing you to
increase or decrease the contrast in that specific variation. The highlight of this module is the ability
to adjust mid-tone contrast quickly and easily, something that would normally
take many steps to achieve.
The
Tone section gives you the ability to adjust the tone levels to retain a high
range of tones in your image. It
includes black, white, and mid-tone sliders that can bring back details in the
shadows and highlights that would normally be lost with high contrast
adjustments.
HSL
Module- Topaz Clarity is the first to use a
quality enhancement method in the Hue, Saturation, and Luminance adjustment
module, which can produce strong adjustments with much less artifacts and
noise. The HSL module allows you to
selectively enhance specific colors in your image.
Over
100 Presets- they have categorized the presets by types of photography (enables you to quickly
identify which presets would be most useful for their particular image).
Purchase it here
How to Use Photography to Help in Natural Disasters — Operation Photo Rescue
Sadly, it doesn’t always work out that way. While many are grateful to survive a natural disaster, they’re still left devastated from the loss of everything they own. The worst of it might just be the loss of irreplacable family photos. Operation Photo Rescue is a league of photographers and graphic designers who set out to help survivors get their treasured memories back. OPR’s first mission was Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Since then, they’ve restored 9,000+ photos in other disasters like Hurricane Sandy. If you’re itching to help, OPR’s always looking for skilled photo restorers and fundraising. You can help folks get back photos from their wedding day, that regal portrait of their great of grandpa, and snapshots of their daughter’s first birthday. Won’t that feel awesome? Operation Photo Rescue | |||||
ISO - What it is, What it does, Why it matters
ISO - What it is, What it does, Why it matters
from Mollie and Mary
"There is a great deal of confusion over ISO. Many people do not understand what it is, or how it impacts their photographs. This article will cut through the misinformation and will give you a better understanding of how to set the ISO to your best advantage in different shooting situations."
"Simply stated, ISO is an easy way for you to control how sensitive your camera (actually, the camera’s sensor) is to light."Read the entire article here
Monday, May 20, 2013
KelbyTraining Live in Boston!
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