B&H Photo is sponsoring some classes on-line though Creative Live. Most are free if you attend the live broadcast, after that they will be available for a price, but I am not sure what that price will be.
Looks like they have a few other courses I’d be interested in as well, like one from David duChemin as well as one from Zack Arias, check em out here: http://creativelive.com/courses/
I plan on my next DSLR having video capabilities, being able to use my zoom and manual lenses sounds like just too much fun not to try. So I signed up for this little web-cast based on a book coming out titled “From Still to Motion: A photographer’s guide to creating video with your DSLR” By Richard Harrington, Robbie Carman, Matt Gottshalk, and James Ball. looks interesting and only an hour long, and hey, it’s free!
OK, so in lieu of actually having my Macbook Pro and a copy of Aperture 3 yet, I’ll continually look for tutorials and other educational materials on it. After having used Lightroom for so long I want to try and grasp the slight differences between the two so when I do start using it, it won’t be such a shock.
A few things I am really looking forward to are:
Integration with Flickr and Facebook.
Audio and Video support.
Adjustment brushes.
Syncing projects for use across different computers.
I’m always excited to find stuff like this. Michael Clark, the adventure photographer, did a talk over at Google just recently, and now it’s up on the Google Talks site. I’ll post it here below but you might want to go and watch in on HD over on You Tube.
I don’t have Aperture 3 yet, but it’s definitely something I am going to be picking up when I get my Macboook Pro. So until then I’ll have to be happy with learning as much about it as I can, so I can be more efficient when I do get it. Here’s a basic contrast tutorial using Aperture 3, from Thomas Fitzgerald on the Vimeo Aperture Channel:
My wife is an awesome cook, and I mean an AWESOME cook!!! It’s hard not to gain some extra pounds with all the wonderful things she…literally…brings to the table. So I’ve been thinking, why don’t I try and get some shots of this stuff, I have always had an interest in food photography but just never really had the food. So after doing some research I came upon site site, Michael Ray’s Food Photography Blog, no relation to Rachael Ray as far as I can tell.
Have you read the owners manual for your Nikon Flash? Have you read Joe McNally’s book “The Hot Shoe Diaries“? Well here’s one more resource to help understand the Nikon Creative Lighting System. It’s actualy a post of another post by Russ MacDonald.
Whats new in Adobe Lightroom 3. Digital Imaging Evangelist Julieanne Kost goes over the new features in Lightroom 3. You can find all three parts here:
Black Star Rising always has great articles. Here’s one with a few tips for aspiring photographers, all though some could be used for any profession. I especially love the first tip, something I try and do myself.
So I have been building my web site in iWeb and trying to integrate a slideshow pro slide show into one of my pages…yeah, so honestly, I think I’d rather jab red hot pokers in my eyes. OK, OK, so it’s not that bad, and actually iWeb is a pretty quick way to go for getting a site up…just don’t try and leave mother apple. Like EVERYTHING apple makes, wandering outside of the boundaries of there network is very very frowned upon, and I believe eventually Steve Jobs himself will appear before you and turn you into a pillar of salt! Anyway, I am going throguh some on-line classes at Kelby Training with instructore Rafael Concepcion on Photoshop and Dreamweaver Integration and it’s been going great! I am really looking forward to building my entire web site with these two programs, the lessons are short and very informative. And there’s a ton of content up there. I just joined for the month which was twenty dollars and I have access to everything! If you get the time, check the site out!
I have been thinking more and more about the aspect of trying the stock photography market as a way to to actually do something with the literally thousands of photos I have lying (virtually) around on my hard drive. One stock site I will be trying soon is Photoshelter. Photoshelter also develops a site titled “School of Stock“, with lots of informative articles on the stock industry. Recently, they put up an article titled “How to Shoot Great Travel Photography“. Enjoy the article!
I am working my way through Mike Clark’s Lightroom 2 book now. Actually I am using it as sort of a reference manual as I went straight to the chapters explaining how to use Lightroom as a DAM (digital asset management) tool as I tried to catalog 26,000 photos from various places, hard drives, disks, etc…but now I have everything in a hierarchy I am happy with and then let Lightroom do it’s thing. I’ve moved onto other chapters and the entire books seems very informative so far! Here’s a link;
