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Time For Me To Buy a New Computer and Optimize Photoshop

Time for me to upgrade and get a new Mac Pro at my country house. It’s an older Intel processor and I can’t load CS5. Arrgg. You know about "dog years", where every year for a dog is like seven human years. Computer aging happens even faster. I think every computer year is like 34 human years. So I’ve been using my trusty Mac Book Pro when I need something in the country done in [...]

Infringe Copyright on YouTube, Go to Copyright School

Google, who now owns YouTube, has long had a “three strikes” and you’re out rule when it comes to copyright violations on YouTube. Not anymore, now it’s one strike and you are required to go to “Copyright School”. School is not that hard and luckily, it’s an at home course over the Internet. And it’s a cartoon to boot. But there is a quiz to see if [...]

Why Photographers Like to Travel

 Why do photographers love to travel so much? Well the main reason is that we’re visually sensitive and we love the visual stimuli we get when we go to new and different places. I find I “see” more when I’m in new surroundings. There’s a great story about Ansel Adams, who along with being a great landscape photographer, made his living for many years as a [...]

Proof: Media for Social Justice

Proof is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting social change through photography. As it says on it’s home page Proof “uses photography as means to inform and educate global audiences about human rights. Powered by a strong belief that visual media is a unique and potent tool in the fight for human rights, we empower future generations to work for social change. Our work [...]

Last Day of Photoshop World

My Day Two at Photoshop World

Day two is my hectic day. Full, but still lots of fun. I had two morning classes and with setup for my lighting class, it’s a very long morning. My “Copyright” class is first, followed 15 minutes later with my “One Light Lighting” class. And in two different rooms, far apart in the convention center. In fact one was as far as possible in one direction and the second [...]

Opening Day at Photoshop World

Opening day at Photoshop World means the opening ceremonies. Every year Scott Kelby and company comes up with the most original, fun event opening ceremony ever. It's always a must see. Every one I’ve been to has been killer. This year it’s theme is “Project Photoshop” (ala Project Runway), done as a reality show send up with “designers” coming up with the best [...]

The Pre-Convention Day at Photoshop World

Pre-convention day or “precon” day at Photoshop World today. Starting the day early with a gathering of the instructors for an early morning private presentation put on by Adobe. Can’t say any more because of a non-disclosure agreement I had to sign or men in black raincoats wearing dark sunglasses will show up at my door. After lunch, I decide to take in a 5-hour DSLR Video [...]

Before Photoshop World Starts

I'm at one of my absolute favorite conventions, Photoshop World, being held this spring in Orlando, Florida. I have four classes to teach and an afternoon of portfolio reviews. That should keep me busy and out of most trouble this week. I'll try and post almost every day, what I saw and did. This is one of the really fun events for all the instructors and attendees. Very much feels like a [...]

What Makes Good Photography?

Sounds like a simple question, but it’s really a very complex question today. I believe it has to do with your personal comfort zone and many photographers have a hard time with images outside their comfort zone. I’ve been reading dialog I followed in a very long web path starting on Rob Haggart’s A Photo Editor blog, to Nick Shere and Karl Gunnarsson’s one125.net blog, [...]