Constantly Refocusing
Everything is 20/20 in HindsightArchive for March, 2010
Becoming Southern . . .
No I do not call it “The War of Northern Aggression,” and I do not speak with slow drawn out vowels. I do not primarily cook with butter or consider fried chicken one of my favorite meals. I am not afraid of driving in a few inches of snow and I do not own anything with a rebel flag on it.
I have however joined a group of believes with the designation of “Southern” on it. Although the majority of us do not hearken from the south we have joined in unity under the cause of the good news of Jesus Christ. Many of our group are Korean while others come from other nations. There are even a few like myself and our youth pastor that come from the far reaches of the north called Pennsylvania. But we now associate ourselves in some sense with the word “southern.”
Refocusing on Photoshop
My brain is still recovering from the Photoshop seminar on Monday. I have not had a chance to stop to process all the great info I got at the seminar. I was forced to hit the ground running Tuesday morning as work piled up in my absence on Monday. I’m just now getting things under control thanks to the help of some kind coworkers.
Having struggled through I now wish for even more punishment and wish to attend the World Convention in Florida the end of this month. Is it worth the time and money? Can I handle all the information? How bad would my work pile up? Will work let me go or even pay for it? These are all the questions fighting against my desire to go. I’ve never felt quite so conflicted about something so trivial.
I sent the information to the powers that be and am interested to see if there will even be and discussion about it. Maybe after a do a Photoshop training session for the Prepress they’ll consider it? We’ll have to wait and see. But for now I’m reveling in my newly acquired information and trying out the techniques I learned. Stay tuned for picture of my first experiments with “Light Painting.”
PhotoShop In Focus
I’m in Richmond at the seminar and it is filling up fast. About 200 people are here and there is no electric for all of us who brought laptops so I will be posting from my phone today and reviving my phone battery with that of my laptop.
Ok started now … talking about color and using the opposite color to light subject than what you want final background to be. Pretty cool!
Now he’s showing how youy can combine photos shot with diff settings. He’s using moving water as an example.
He is now talking about “light painting” I m so doing this this week! Basically its long exposures at night that you paint in with a flashlights. So much fun!
Probably 400 here now.
Ok second session
He’s showing how to create “panollages”
Panoramic + college
He just used the auto-align layers and I think I might be in love
You can use difference In the layer effects to manually align two layers the darker the image the more in line they are.
Ok now we are cover high dynamic range images. Basically it is using multiple photos of same subject shot at different exposures to create one fantastic shot.
I’m going to have to get plugged in over lunch, maybe I can flesh out some ideas over lunch too.
Basically he told us to go buy software that helps PhotoShop deal with HDR
The one he recommends is called Photomatix
There is a 20% discount @ HDRsoft.com when you use “digitalmastery”
Very cool effects with the program (i will post pictures tomorrow maybe)
Focusing on Photoshop
I’m so excited. I’m going to my first Photoshop training seminar in Richmond on Monday! What makes it really cool is that work is paying for me to go.
It is done by Kelby Training. They are the same group as NAPP. (National Association of Photoshop Professionals)
I will be posting throughout the day on Monday to pass on cool tips or tricks I learn. So check out my blog on Monday March 8th if you are interested in Photography, Photoshop or geek attended seminars.
