I’m thinking of starting an online forum for local Puget Sound Area shutter bugs to share their photos and favorite places to walk – talk about gear and post & form photowalks.
It would be FREE, you’d only need to register to be able to post on the forum.
But, before I go through the hours it takes to set-up and moderate, I’m wondering if there is any interest?
Please post a comment – yes or no.
If yes, approxametly how many times a week/month would you check in on the forum?
Would you be interested in leading a photo walk or joining one if we created them?
As you get more serious about photography the one thing you’ll want is a way to make sure your monitor is displaying color and exposure correctly. There’s nothing more disapointing than having what looks like a great looking photo on your monitor but when you print ot out to find that the color is off – or that it’s too dark or too light.
Professionals spend big bucks and a lot of time keeping their monitors calibrated correctly – and while you may not be ready to go there – to get the best photo possible you should check your display.
For today only - the site giveaway of the day is giving away free software to calibrate your monitor. Download it and open it to register it before midnight and give it a try.
Here’s a description of the software:
Atrise Lutcurve 1.3.1 Personal ”This program will help you to calibrate your LCD or CRT displays without any hardware devices for 6500K gamma 2.2. All aspects of the critical areas are covered, such as viewing environment, colour temperature and gamma, along with fine tune capability. Reference images and real time graph displays provide for accurate adjustment at every stage.”
Here’s a short video that shows how to make a greeting card using PhotoShop Elements. It’s quick and easy and will be ready to email to all you friends in minutes.
PS: If you’d like to use iStock service, contact me and I’ll send you an email link for 3 FREE credits to use towards your first purchase.
If you’ve read many of my blog posts or heard me teach you’ve heard me say that to produce tack sharp pictures a tripod is essential.
We’ll if you are wondering about that tripod purchase and how to select one from the many available, or are ready to purchase a professional tripod Bogen is offering a Free Webinar on the subject.
Wondering How to Select the Right Tripod and Head?
FREE Online Webinar
Friday, November 14, 2008
2pm – 3pm EDT
They’re even giving away prized during the webinar – you might find yourself the recipient of a free tripod! Here’s more information from their press release: During this session David & Will present: Selecting the Right Tripod & Head: Getting the most out of your rig!
How to determine your needs based on your equipment (hint: weighing it won’t help!)
Tips for carrying, setting up, and maintaining your rig.
Different styles call for different setups.
During this Webinar, you have exclusive advantages:
Interact one on one with our special speakers (ask questions and get the answers you need).
Automatic Chance to Win one of these Prizes: Manfrotto Tripod & Head” valued up to $315 or a “Gitzo Tripod & Head” valued up to $550
Important Note: 2 winners will be announced at the end of the Webinar, so you must attend the Webinar in its entirety, from beginning until end to qualify for a chance to win.
Friday, October 17, 2008 10:00 am
Pacific Daylight Time
1 hour
Professioinal photographer Harold Davis will show why night photography has become so popular among digital photographers. He’ll teach exposure techniques for night time photography and explain how to post-process them.
Harold will be available for Q&A at the end of the presentation.
I can hardly wait! I’ve had mixed success with night photography. I love the results, but want to learn more about how to improve the shots and reduce noise (my new arch enemy) caused by long night exposures.
About Harold Davis
Harold Davis is a photographer and author. His photographs have been widely published, exhibited, and collected. Many of his fine art photography posters are well known, including some recent alternatively processed digital flower images published by New York Graphic Society.
The author of more than twenty books, Harold has written (and illustrated with his photographs) Digital Photography: Digital Field Guide (Wiley), The Photographer’s Guide to Yosemite and the High Sierra (Countryman/W.W.Norton), 100 Views of the Golden Gate (Wilderness Press). He is the lead author of a new series of books about digital photography from O’Reilly Digital Media.
Google announced the release of Picasa 3.0 (http://picasa.google.com/) beta. Picasa is desktop software designed for Windows. Not word on MAC capabilities yet. Picasa is an easy to use, robust photo editing program that has many fans, including me.
Picasa also integrates seamlessly with Picasa Web Albums for sharing your photos online — with just one click in Picasa 3, you can sync albums from your PC to the web, so that any changes or additions you make on your PC are automatically reflected on your web gallery.
New tools in Picasa 3 help you make professional-looking edits without any technical knowledge, including:
A drag-and-drop photo-collage tool gives you total freedom over layout and content
A powerful retouching brush to wipe out scratches and blemishes, and repair old photos.
A slide show movie maker that uploads to YouTube with a click
Auto red-eye removal
Smart auto-cropping that guides you on how to zoom in on your subject
A Photo Viewer to quickly inspect and manipulate images while in the Windows file system
Auto Watermarking option when uploading to Picasa Web Albums.
As always, Picasa automatically finds and sorts the photos on your hard drive, and lets you drag and drop photos into folders or add custom tags. It leaves your original files undisturbed on your hard drive, so you don’t have to worry about overwriting or altering your originals — you can go back a year later and undo any edits you’ve made. And you can always download all your photos out of Picasa Web Albums.
