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February Winners – Everyone!

March 5, 2011 JasonLeave a comment

Given the rigors of the week, closing out the February contest was not high enough on my radar, but having stirred from the hydro-codone-induced sleep, I remembered that it’s time to close out February and begin March contests. As you may recall, for February, a $50 discount card is being offered up to all participants in the February LDP Contest giveaway, so for those of you who participated and were patiently awaiting the discount code – it’s been published in the February contest thread.

And now – the moment you’ve all been waiting for: the February co-winners, each of whom gets $150 in printing from NPL, the ones whose images were most compelling, the ones…all right already, they are:

Mason Long

Frank Sammut

You can find their respective Flickr streams of these and their other photo libraries here and here respectively! Congrats to both of you and I’ve sent your names over to our contact with Nations Photo Lab so they can deliver the coupon codes for your prizes to you! Thanks again to Nations Photo Lab for their generous donations for the month of February! Be sure to tune in on Monday for the announcement of the March contest!

What’s Going On…

February 10, 2011 Jason2 Comments

A couple fun news items to share today…including some prize additions, a webinar announcement, and more!

Comment Contest

I just got word last night from Nicole that a copy of both her 60D and 7D books will be donated to the comment contest – so there’s gonna be two winners! All you have do to is comment on the podcast post from Monday! Yup, that’s it – no fuss, no muss – just comment and win! Pretty generous of her and Peachpit to donate like that! Oh yeah, and be sure to listen to the podcast, we have a great conversation about how to strike a balance in your photographic life! All that’s available from here.

Photoshop Cs5 Webinar

The folks over at Nations Photo Lab just keep on giving! In addition to the monthly Flickr contest (where you get $50 certificates just for playing), they’re also the sponsors of the Live Learning Lab – a free live webinar served up on the 2nd Wednesday of every month, hosted by myself and Kerry Garrison of Camera Dojo. We just had the February one last night, and it was quite the hit! You can watch the archived shows for free too if you can’t be in attendance – just can’t ask questions in real time. Anyway, the archive is here

If you’d like to participate in the March webinar – be sure to sign up in advance as we can only take 100 people. More details are forthcoming on that shortly.

And more…

Okay, there really isn’t much in the way of “more”, but since I like to have images for every post, here’s a quickie from my own archives just for a dose of inspiration (in hopes of a Spring thaw soon!). Happy Shooting!

The Live Learning Lab!

January 13, 2011 Jason5 Comments

For a while now, my good friend Kerry Garrison (of Camera Dojo) and I have been working in concert with Nations Photo Lab to build a new interface up at their website for a learning resource guide, which will be serving up free monthly webinars! With both myself and Kerry Garrison as hosts, we launched our first webinar yesterday with a sellout crowd of 100 people in attendance! It was a lot of fun as we tackled several subjects relating to Lightroom and how to process your images. I took on creative crop overlays and ND filters while Kerry handled the portrait retouching aspects of Lightroom.

Our schedule is the second Wednesday of every month so another will be forthcoming here in a few weeks for February. We’ll be covering a lot more than Lightroom, including Photoshop, probably some photography composition techniques, and much much more. We’re working on a guest host schedule too, so it’s worth checking out. There’s no gimmicks, no fuss, no muss – just a way for the group to collectively give back to the entire community! Each webinar is about an hour long (our first went about 15 minutes over), and they will all be accessible via instant archives immediately following the webinar too. It’s great to view live because you can ask questions as you think of them, but if your schedule doesn’t permit, the archives will be available for your enjoyment too!