The Radiant Vista
I am not sure what happened over at The Radiant Vista, but the good thing Craig Tanner, Mark Johnson and Matt Gibson had going over there went up in smoke. The Radiant Vista is no more. But the spirit of it continues on in at least two websites by two of the three. Craig Tanner, [...]
Lightroom Plug-ins make Life a Breeze.*
*Ok, maybe that title is a bit of an overstatement. We all know Lightroom is powerful. Most of my editing is done and post processing these days, and no longer in Photoshop. In fact, I would say with the advent of Lightroom 2 and local adjustments (see my video HERE) 95% or more of my [...]
Steve McCurry Sharp
One of the fun and quite frankly, thrilling things that digital imaging has been able to deliver that film never did, is the ability to give you truly razor sharp images. Yeah, we had sharp images in the film days, but not like what we can get now. With the digital cameras ability to grab [...]
Who says there is no "Un-Suck" button?
David DuChemin is fond of telling me and others there is no “un-suck” button in Photoshop. Hmm, I thought I was sure I saw one. Then yesterday I found it. You just have to look in the right place. Come on David, you know it’s there!
What Blogs do you read?
Ok time for you to give back? I have a certain few blogs I check everyday. Here is my list: PixelatedImage Blog – David is one of the best writers I know and is always inpserational. Joe McNally – Joe is one of the best photographers out there and is always willing to share. And [...]
Sometimes a picture is worth the extra effort.
Final image Original #1 Original #2 Yesterday, my wife and daughter and I went with some Malay friends to the Kampon or village. We played in rice paddies and ate a lot of good food and drank a lot of fresh coconut juice. I took a few images of our host’s children. One was particularly [...]
Nicole Gibson Brings Home a Guru!
A hearty congratulations goes out to Nicole Gibson for winning the Vincent Versace Award at Photoshop World Expo in Las Vegas. Nicole is a good friend and one of our participant in the 2007 Lumen Dei workshop in Kashmir. In fact, it was her image of a Kashmiri man viewed through a flock of pigeons [...]
And the winner is….
Photo by Thai Yuan. …Thai Yuan or as he is known to his friends as T.Y. There were sooo many great shots. It was way too hard for me. I never, never want to judge images again, well at least not alone. I had short listed the winner to around a dozen images and then [...]
Georgetown Lightroom 2 PhotoWalk
I am excited to say, I will be hosting Scott Kelby’s Lightroom 2 PhotoWalk here in Georgetown. So if you are reading this and are living in and around Penang, join me and others as we walk the historic downtown district of Georgetown and August 23rd. Participation is limited to 50, so if you want [...]
Mpix & NAPP
Let me tell you about a membership that is actually worth paying for. Quite frankly, many of the photo societies are, as far as I am concerned, a waste of money. If you’re like me, you don’t have a surplus of cash to go around and yet you want to learn about photography, sharpen your [...]
Out of the Box: Lightroom 2
Well the big news around Camera World is Adobe’s release of Lightroom 2. I must confess I was very excited about it and have been waiting with baited breath for this release. But today when it was release I went to the Adobe sight to purchase and download this fine software I was reminded that [...]
The Bay Area Visit.
Not sure why they call Wallnut Hills and Concord the “Bay Area”, I feel like I am so far removed from the bay. I asked my sister-in-law just how long does it take to get to San Fransisco from her house. An hour. That’s as long as it take to get to Austin from Temple [...]
Not Magic, Just CS3 Auto Align.
This afternoon, I did a photoshoot of a friend’s two little girls. As often when photographing children, they were wiggly. So I have one ok shot of the two girls in the grass (fig 1) and one not so good (fig 2). But if I could combine them, I would have a winner. Enter, CS3′s [...]
Out of Town Tuesday
After a day of crazy traveling I am finding a few minutes to post. This week I am away from home and in meetings so posting might not happen. Though I am working on a series of post or perhaps and article, on how photographers deals with new and different cultures in their travel. In [...]
MPIX – Online Photo Printshop
A 1600×2000 px MPIX print. Today I got my first MPIX order back. I ordered a 16×20 metallic print. All I can say is, “Why did I wait so long to use MPIX!” Scott Kelby and the rest of the crew at Kelby Training have been touting these guys for months. So I decided try [...]
Lightroom 2.0 BETA-and the verdict? SWEET!
By now if you are an Adobe Lightroom user you’ve heard about the 2.0 Beta release. If you have not downloaded it yet, what are you waiting for – download it now at Adobe Labs! This is too much fun to pass up. If you are a 1.0 user then the beta will last you [...]
Catch Up Monday
I want to apologize for the lack of movement on this blog this past two weeks. Yikes! Has it been that long? Some of it is busyness, as I am frantically trying to get ready to leave for Sumatra. Some of it is other work. Some of it is just writer’s block. First off, I [...]
A Leopard in My Nightmares
I just upgraded our family’s two Macs to the Leopard OS. It started out smooth enough with my wife’s little 12″ G4. No problem, the upgrade went without a catch, slow but without any issues. My massive 17″ MacBook Pro on the other hand was/is a nightmare. A word of advice that I know you [...]
Photoshop User and Patrick Brown
I am toying with a new description of my photography. I don’t know if I am prepared to use the term broadly. I find it is a good exercise to keep thinking through just what is my style. So, here is the term I am playing with these days; photo-ethnography or ethno-photography. Ethnography is the [...]
More Fun
This is a fun little slide viewer that is completely free. Check it out. I found it on Scott Kelby’s blog Photoshop Insider His blog is one of, if not the best blog on Photoshop or Lightroom. This guy is amazing and a really nice guy as well. You would do well to check it [...]
Catchlight Arrives
While I was away in Thailand one of the folks attending the meetings brought me a copy of my book. I must say, I was very pleased with what I saw. In fact, I was amazed at the quality of the print job and the binding. The jacket looks very professional as well. My only [...]
Tritone
I have recently been in email discussions with Mitchell Kanashkevich about how he gets such sweet black & white images. I found out that they are not really black & whites after all, they are “tritones”. Apparently it is a little Photoshop trick he uncovered. They are a mix of two colors on top of [...]
Detail
OPD. Overview, Portrait and Detail. Maybe I’ll look at the O and the P in this list at a later date. I want to confess to you right here on the net, for all to read; my weakness, ok, one of my weaknesses is “detail.” To come right up to a subject and focus on [...]
I shoot for mostly NGOs and nonprofits. I photograph images of the unknown, the forgotten and the helpless. These are often the stories that most people overlook. 
