Where do you stand?

So I was reading a new post by an author of one of the blogs I follow, Jeremy Cowart, he mentioned a quote, which you can read from HIS site. What a world we live in today. It seems to be going deeper into the whirlpool with no sign of stopping.
Which part of the jersey [...]

Shooting the Heron

I went for a walk the other day down to the river in search of some photographic action. I really wanted something new and different. I had my eye open.
It was a lovely morning. The sun was just starting to crest over the firs and cottonwoods. As I headed out down the gravel bar I [...]

My Photography now has its own Website

As I have decided to turn more towards starting a photography business, I just spent the day redesigning my photography website. I wanted something that was separate from my WordPress site and more focused on my photography passions. I think the hardest part in the whole process was getting my photos watermarked.Why would that be [...]

Lightroom to Tweetphoto and Twitpic Plugin

Have you ever wanted to post photos (and tweets) straight from Lightroom? Well, Sean McCormack has come up with a brilliant plugin for just that. Check it out here.
Update: I forgot to mention the same for the twitpic plugin.

Adobe Creates the First Blood Pressure Lowering Plugin

Do you own a Macbook Air or recent MacBook Pro and find multi-colored words coming out of your mouth while using Photoshop? If so, you know what I am talking about… your blood pressure rising with each touch of the trackpad.
If you are unfamiliar, you should know that the new Gestures feature for the trackpad really [...]

Transform

Overview » ProPhoto2 Blog Theme

Overview » ProPhoto2 Blog Theme
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Photomatics 3.0 HDR Tutorials

Photos de Paris artistique par Serge Ramelli » English tutorials
There are a few tutorials by Serge, who was the first to introduce me to HDR, that show how he worked his photos in Photomatics and Photoshop.

Does Facebook own your data?

There is a growing concern about Facebook and their miss-use of users data. Should you be worried? I would be.
CBS | Video: http://cbs5.com/video/?id=46238@kpix.dayport.com
Jim Goldstein: Facebook terms go from bad to worse | http://www.jmg-galleries.com/blog/2009/02/17/facebooks-terms-of-use-from-bad-to-beyond-worse/

Happy Holiday!

I just wanted to wish every one a happy President’s Day. We will be enjoying the great outdoors.

RadioPopper» High Speed Sync w/ Bees and Others

RadioPopper Blog » Blog Archive » High Speed Sync w/ Bees and Others
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Lightroom Journal: New Export Plug-In and Develop Presets on Exchange

Lightroom Journal: New Export Plug-In and Develop Presets on Exchange
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Our eye, the camera

I found an interesting article hidden in an emil I received. This article talks about how our eye sees. Check it out.The Photographic Eye | B&H Photo Video Pro Audio
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Lightroom and Camera Raw updates

Today Adobe introduced updates to Camera Raw 5.3 and Lightroom 2.3. Updates added two new camera models, Nikon D3X and Olympus E-30 as well as a few bug fixes.

The Genius of Photography

I was reading Syl’s blog over at Pixsylated and came across a post where he mentions The Genius of Photography, a BBC show. I am in the middle of watching this show and say it is a “must see” if you have any interest in photography. This is a great piece.
Syl has so wonderfully [...]

Flash Radio Transmitters

In early December RadioPoppers, a wireless flash control, announced RadioPopper X. These are a second generation RadioPopper System. A complete ground-up redesign of their previous system. The all new RadioPopper X system is a highly scalable hardware platform that will grow with you. These units will now seamlessly mix sophisticated ETTL/iTTL automatic flash including ratios [...]

More snow comes beauty

 
 
We have been having more snow here in the Willamette Valley of Oregon… more than I ever remember in years past. A few days ago I decided when the next storm came in I was going to head out and get some local photos. The next day I did. We had just had about 3 [...]

http://theluminousroom.com

As most of you have noticed, I have been spending some time on one of my photography site, The Luminous Room. It has taken me some time to develop a working model up and it is complete. I am not sure what I am going to do with the Photo page I had here. [...]

Create a custom shape watermark in Photoshop from your logo.

This is a screen cast that shows how to convert a logo, that was hand drawn and scanned, into a Photoshop custom shape with text and made a scalable vector watermark. Very useful!

Ever want a nice Flash banner/header?

Those of you photographers and digital imaging people who would like a nice Flash banner on your pages will be happy to discover you don’t have to know flash to create one. I was digging around the net for some answers to my flash banners in the headers of my pages and came across an [...]

A shopping cart option for photographers

I have searched and searched for a viable way to sell images on my website but have yet to come up with anything promising. It seems that unless you want to fork out the dough to someone else, there is not much out there.
I use Rapidweaver , which I absolutely love, for my CMS and [...]

Text for quicktime in Photoshop

I created this very simple tutorial on creating a logo and text intro for adding to a Quicktime movie. I know, I know, why not use iMovie? The main reason I did it is because I didn’t want to wait to load a 45 minute movie into iMovie AND… some people don’t have iMovie.
Here is [...]

My First Screencast

November 19, 2008 9:47 AM
I have been wanting to record my workflow for sometime now so that I can remember what I have done to an image and possiLate last night I decided to record some video of an image I was playing around with. I wanted the screencast to show of what you can [...]

Boardwalk

When I start creating, and my mind takes over and it always becomes something totally different than what I started with. I think part of this has to do with the fact that I wish I could paint. I don’t mean paint like my 3 and 7 year old sons, but paint what I see [...]

HDR

November 16, 2008 1:52 AM
Tonight My wife and I thought we would rent a movie from iTunes and make some homemade popcorn (as opposed to microwave popcorn). She picked out the movie while I ran to the market to get a Coke. I then made the popcorn. Yummy! Unfortunately the iTunes movie rental ordeal took [...]