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Archive for April, 2010

19 April, 2010 – Photographing the Aurora

04 Apr

Have you ever photographed an aurora, or even seen one?

Mark Dubovoy travelled to Northern Canada a couple of months ago for just this purpose, and came away with shots of a quite spectacular display.

As a physicist by profession he can’t resist explaing what causes the aurora, as well as how best to photograph one when you have the opportunity. His new tutorial is titled, naturally enough, Photographing The Aurora.

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Fancy a photographic workshop in Tasmania this coming December? If so consider this one being put on by my friend (and frequent contributor to this site) Nick Rains. Nick is the Editor of one of Australia’s leading photographic magazines, and a very fine photographer and teacher.

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"If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video must be worth a thousand pictures.
 
Just to let you know that I found your Lightroom Tutorial most helpful in understanding, not only which buttons to push, but the gestalt behind the program.  Especially helpful was the orgainzation.
 
All in all the best .00 I have spent recently".

– Jim Cassatt

 


The Luminous Landscape – What’s New

 
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sky enhancement photoshop tutorial

04 Apr

three different techniques for enhancing the sky in a picture with photoshop

The lovely Cynthia sent me a few photos asking if I could have a go at photoshopping them. So I picked my favorite and played around a bit. I’m very happy with the result, although if you ask me, she doesn’t need any photoshopping, she’s beautiful just the way she is. I added the music just to make it a little more interesting to watch.

 

Nikon MB-D80 Installation For Nikon D80 & D90

04 Apr

Installing the Nikon MB-D80 Battery Grip
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Nikon D3 digital SLR camera review by What Digital Camera magazine: Part 2. Part one: uk.youtube.com More camera reviews: www.whatdigitalcamera.com

 
 

Photoshop Beauty Retouch

04 Apr

Photoshop beauty retouch. Musical selection “Iceland” by Positively Dark, Entropymusic.com.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

High Quality www.youtube.com Hi def version at tutorialbucket.googlepages.com Perfect foundation makeup that looks real and is easy to fine tune. Another great pro technique.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

 

WP Plugins March 20, 2010

04 Apr

New Plugins

Custom Image Sizes

Causes WordPress to create custom sizes for your images when you call wp_get_attachment_image() and related functions

Hello in all Languages

Hello in all Languages displays a “hello” word translated to the official language of the country the visitor’s IP belongs to.

Chibipaint for WordPress

This plugin integrates the java applet “Chibipaint” with WordPress. This allows the user to draw and save their drawings directly to the server. Features included are editing and mass deletion, editable preset and user-defined templates and canvas sizes.

NdB_UserHidden

Ndb_UserHidden hides parts of wordpress posts for unidentified end users. By surrounding private text with [hide] and [/hide] tags you can force guest users to register and login to view member-only content. This plugin is interesting for webmasters that want to expand their user base for newsletters and other purposes. For download sites it will force users to identify themselves before downloads are shown.

WordPress Tweeter

WordPress Tweeter is a plugin that will update your twitter account every time you make a new post on your blog. You will be able to use your own tweet template.

Updated Plugins

WP Minify

This plugin helps you easily integrate the Minify engine into your WordPress blog. Once enabled, this plugin will combine and compress JS and CSS files to improve page load time.

GD Star Rating

GD Star Rating is post, page and comment rating and review plugin for WordPress. Plugin supports different image sets, rating moderation, vote rules, time restricted voting, templates, trend calculations, multi ratings, templated rendering, has a widgets build in and extensive shortcode support. Plugin can be integrated with comments for making a review website.

Table of Contents Creator

Table of Contents Creator (TOCC) automatically generates a highly customizable dynamic site wide table of contents that is always up-to-date. All entries are navigable making your site very SEO friendly. TOCC can be configured to display static pages, blog entries and forum comments.

NextGEN Gallery

A photo gallery management plugin

Hikari Email & URL Obfuscator

Email and normal links are obfuscated, hiding them from spambots. It automatically encodes each link, then uses JavaScript to decode and show them. Disabled JavaScript users get access to obfuscated links too.

Hikari Titled Comments

Hikari Titled Comments enables each comment to have a title, so that commentators can give a subject meaning to their comments

Any suggestions, ideas? Feel free to comment on this article!

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Mr Bean animated – Double Trouble

04 Apr

www.extracashontheinternet.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Pre-Order the official Duck Song book today! www.flinderspress.com Available September 1st! Also, check out the book’s trailer: www.youtube.com Song By Bryant Oden Animation By Forrest Whaley BUY THE SONG: itunes.apple.com BUY THE MERCH: www.cafepress.com MORE SONGS: www.youtube.com TWITTER: twitter.com FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5

 

How a Pixel Gets its Color | Bayer Sensor | Digital Image

04 Apr

This video explains how pixels are assigned RGB values using a bayer filter system. It is one of the many bonus lessons on my new DVD, Photoshop Crash Course which will teach you how to think in Photoshop terms. This particular video was made to help explain how pixels are assigned colors and why this is important when working in Photoshop. I hope that you will enjoy it. Please be sure to visit my blog for free tips and photography information. If you are a beginner getting into photography, I know it will help. Best Wishes! www.michaelthemaven.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5

 

PRO Actions – 30 Film Effects (1/2)

03 Apr

A set of 30 professional Photoshop Actions that will generate gentle, stylish, professional-looking and all known film/photography effects while also enhancing your film/photography.
Video Rating: 5 / 5

 
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Fixing Dark Glasses in Photoshop

03 Apr

In this video, Ron Nichols (ronnichols.com) shows a quick and effective way to recover eyes from tinted glasses or replace them from another portrait image. Ron is the President of Ron Nichols Digital Solutions, a software and consulting company specializing in workflow interfaces for professional photographers.

Photoshop beauty retouching tutorial. See more at www.photoshopmama.net. This is actually a real tutorial showing the steps of how to do glamour photo retouching in Photoshop.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

 

Springtime Paddling on the Horsetooth Reservoir

03 Apr

Since I bought annual passes for Larimer County Parks I am paddling on the Horsetooth Reservoir quite regularly this springtime. I started with Sea Wind canoe when the lake was still covered by ice. Now, I am paddling mostly Thunderbolt kayak, but I am going to use other boats too (at least for photography purposes).

I love early (and late) season on the Horsetooth since there is very little or no motor boat traffic. However, paddling workout with a racing kayak is always more challenging here than on a smaller body of water like Beaver Pond in Arapaho Bend Natural Area. This narrow reservoir is about 6 miles long. You can make a 14 mile loop by paddling around the lake. Many more miles can be added if you follow closely the shore and visit all coves.

Last time (April 18, 2010) I started at the South Bay and paddled total 11+ miles to the island next to Eltuck coves and back. The water level is high enough to make it an island now (a favorite place for Canadian geese).



Horsetooth Reservoir

Horsetooth Reservoir

Horsetooth Reservoir

Pictures above were shot with Canon PowerShot G11. I still don't have a waterproof housing for that camera. It travels in a small Pelican case. The last picture came from my paddling camera on duty, Pentax Optio W30. I am waiting for reviews of the last Pentax model (W90), but my W30 is still working fine.


Horsetooth Reservoir


paddling with a camera

 
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