You’d think with toting camera bags chock full of bodies, lenses, field drives, lighting equipment, filters, tripods, monopods, and batteries would be enough to give anyone a workout who carries it all day. It is a lot of stuff to carry, and you can certainly accredit some cardio to this activity, but there’s other ways to work out as a photographer. Today, I give you:
5 Photography Exercises Continue reading “The Photographer’s Workout”
For those of you coming to the blog via feeds, this is something you’re gonna have to come to the site to see, but the re-launching of the site is ready! After design, development, and testing over the past two months, we are now live and ready to surge forward!
Special thanks and major kudos to Erik Bernskiold of XLD Studios for all his talents and patience with me in both seeing my vision for the blog and website, and for pulling it off almost to a T – and ahead of schedule to boot! For those interested in web design work, I would highly recommend Erik – you can find him over at his XLD Studios web presence here. If you mention my name (CanonBlogger) Erik has also generously offered readers and listeners a 10% discount!
While reading through the foot high stack of magazines in an attempt to whittle it down, I found myself re-reading a Photoshop User magazine from a few months back. I often re-read magazines and find hidden “nuggets” (as I call ’em). These are fodder for blog posts right here, and last night, I came across an oldie but a goodie. It was the April/May issue of this year so not too long ago. Ed Greenburg and Jack Reznicki were talking about this idea that companies will often lowball or no-ball a photographer in an effort to get their pictures.
Being in Colorado, I am always one of the first to read the latest blogs for the day because East Coasters usually set their publish time to somewhere between midnight and 2am, which means between 10pm and midnight my time, I can catch up on all the news that is going to hit in the morning. (California folks got me beat by an hour…)
So, when Scott Kelby’s blog went live a while ago, he was encouraging people to join the Kelby Training website with a video teaser compiled by his chief video guru, Jason Scrivner. It’s a pretty funny video teaser, but did pique my interest enough to stop over and see how much time was involved in the new video.
I am putting together a DIY project that requires a tool which is rather pricey (roughly $50). So in the interests of keeping costs down, I’ve been contacting local glass cutting shops (although that might be telling too much) to see if they have the tool needed for the job. Specifically, the shop needs to have a 3 and1/8″ diamond tipped hole saw for this project. The first words out of my mouth are always:
“Hi, my name is Jason and I am trying to find a local shop that can cut a piece of glass for me, but it must be done with a 3 and 1/8″ diamond tipped hole saw bit. Do you have that specific size?”
Got the need for speed? These new Lexar cards are just insanely fast. I got a few of these recently to give away on the LDP contest series over on Flickr (which is underway now by the way). It was actually a set of three, but a review was in order, so one of the three got opened for testing. Continue reading “Lexar Pro 300X CF Cards – Giveaway and Review”
On this week’s show, we’ve got a lot to talk about including a couple of particular news stories to note, with a little insight from the crew, we’ll be taking your questions and answers on the show and the special guest of the week for this show is none other than the well-reknowned Martin Bailey!
Photo News
Martin Bailey
- Workshops
- Development/Inspiration
Links: http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/
Blog: http://blog.martinbaileyphotography.com/
Podcast: http://www.martinbaileyphotography.com/podcasts.php
Workshops: http://www.mbpworkshops.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/MartinBailey
Folio: Martin Baily Photography
Q&A
Martin was also kind enough to share a sample selection of his portfolio with us here on the show. These are the low res versions, to see things super nice, head on over to his folio link provided above. In the meantime, enjoy the photos, the show, and we’ll see you back here tomorrow for the latest in photography reviews!
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This post makes it officially 700 thoughts and musings on the blog. At an average of 250 posts per year (since I don’t normally post on weekends and occasional “no blog” days), that means we are closing in on the end of three full years of blogging!
To the readers who have been there with me since the beginning, I’d like to say thanks for all your patience as I’ve walked through several fires of growing pains. I’ve come to the realization that the more you write, the greater the chance you have to sound like either a fool, or a pure and simple $%^&. Hopefully I’ve minimized both of these occurrences enough to warrant another 700 posts!
There’s a couple things coming up on the horizon that are quite exciting, and a few fire irons already nice and hot (see contest #1 and contest #2 going on right now)! The biggest change is coming at the end of the month when CB gets a pretty serious face lift. Other upcoming things of interest include a podcast with none other than Martin Bailey on Monday, the 3rd Annual World Wide Photowalk in July, and the 2nd release of the 49 Photo Tips download! (The first is still available here…) All this is accompanied by the regular news, reviews, and photography experiences/insights that I share with you here daily. So, you’d think that with all that, there’s be nothing else of a “big news” item to announce at this time. After all, it’s just Friday, right?
Well, not to disappoint, but there is some news to share with you today on post #700! This is not only news, it’s pretty big news! In fact, it’s not just pretty big news – it’s super huge! Are you sitting down? Are you ready for this? (Cue “Jock Jams“…for those of you that did not experience the early 90’s, the link may be a #lame one…)
Actually, I’d better not just quite yet. But, I can let you know that Anaheim, Salt Lake City, Denver, Minneapolis, Seattle and Portland all have something in common (they make a nice circle…don’t ya think? 🙂 )…
More tk…happy friday and have a great weekend all! Get out and shoot ya some! 🙂
With the release of Lightroom 3 the other day from the folks over at Adobe – I’ve had an influx of several repeating questions. While I’ve replied to (hopefully) everybody, it’s useful to note those questions and the responses here as well for my first ever:
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Frequently Asked Questions
1. I tried the tethered capture, but Lightroom does not appear to let me adjust shutter speed, aperture or ISO with my (fill in your camera body type). Is this model not supported?
Answer: The tethered capture is only intended as a capture function. The display shows you the shutter, aperture and ISO, but you cannot make those adjustments on the computer – that must be done at camera.
2. Will Lightroom 3 upgrade both my catalogs from LR2 and the beta?
Answer: My understanding is that Lightroom 3 will automatically upgrade your LR2 catalog for you. Once that operation is done, you can then import the catalog from the beta edition to your new catalog in LR3 to bring everything in together.
3. What if I don’t want Lightroom 3 to upgrade my catalog? Can I stop it from doing that?
Yes, on first launch you will be prompted to either upgrade your LR2 catalog or to start a new one.
4. Should I get Lightroom 3 or Cs5 – I can’t afford both.
Answer: If you are just diving in now, I would recommend starting with Lightroom 3. It has so many features and the strength and robustness of it really has diminished the need for round trips to Photoshop when you are talking about photography. Of course if you have serious restoration work, clone work, or need to use features like layers, then Photoshop is a requirement, but I would classify people in this group as graphic artists, not photographers. If you’re upgrading, both do not have to be done simultaneously. Go with one (Lightroom) and the other a few months down the road (Cs5). Or, use the sidebar here to get 30% off the combo pack!
5. Will there be any contests here on your Flickr Monthly Giveaway Series so I can participate for a copy of Lightroom 3?
No comment! 🙂 In all seriousness, I’d love to, but cannot speak for Adobe – we’ll see what happens in the coming weeks. Don’t be expecting it, but don’t write it off either! 🙂
Got any of your own questions about Lightroom 3 not covered above? Feel free to sound off in the comments! Happy shooting and we’ll see you back here again tomorrow!
For those in the Denver area, the photowalk that I will be attending has been uploaded and is now available for registration. Thanks to photo walk leader Tim Tonge for publishing the locale and info to allow us to register! If you’re in the area, here’s the direct page to sign up. Walk limit is 50, so there’s room for only 49 more people! See you on July 24th!
Don’t forget, there’s also a really good cause going on too for the photo walks this year, so stop over to the Cafe Press store for Towner Jones Photography. The proceeds all go to the Springs of Hope Eternal, and you get a cool t-shirt!
