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  • Resizing for the web and email: Photoshop CS5 for Photographers from lynda.com

    Watch the entire course at www.lynda.com PhotoshopCS5 for Photographers provides comprehensive Photoshop training targeting the needs of photographers. In this course, author Chris Orwig demonstrates the fundamental skills used to enhance digital photos, including managing and correcting color, sharpening, making selections and adjustments, retouching, and printing from Photoshop. In addition to teaching the techniques that enable photographers to refine and publish their photos, the course includes live-action segments that encourage thinking photographically, and shoot with Photoshops capabilities in mind.

  • Buyers’ Guide: 10 photography accessories for under $250

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    Affordable accessories roundup published. Photography can be an expensive hobby, but there are plenty of photographic accessories available that won’t break the bank. In this buyers’ guide Matt Golowczynski focuses on ten accessories for less than $ 250 that deserve a place on your holiday season shopping list.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • A Bird’s-Eye View of Kayaking with GoPro Hero Camera

    A bird’s-eye view? Well, it’s more like a low flying goose perspective.

    I am testing GoPro HD Hero camera mounted on a telescoping mast a few feet above kayak deck. My camera mast remains the same as described a couple years ago in this blog. A reversed Gitzo monopod is mounted on My Sticky Pod platform with three suction cups. I am using a toy table tripod at the top end of monopod as a tripod mount for a camera. I used plastic ties and gaffer tape there, so no permanent modifications or damages to my carbon fiber monopod were made.

    GoPro HD Hero Camera

    The pictures come from a recent paddling on Beaver Pond (Arapaho Bend Natural Area, Fort Collins) with JKK Supernova sea kayak. The camera mast was set up on a back deck of the kayak. I cannot mount the sticky pod platform on the steep front deck with a center ridge. I would have to figure out some more creative approach. I mounted the GoPro Hero with a single suction cup in my recent paddling with this kayak.

    GoPro HD Hero Camera

    GoPro LCD Bacpac, a detachable LCD screen is really helpful in setting up the camera and reviewing shots.

    GoPro HD Hero Camera

    The camera was setup on a fully extended mast, i.e., about 60″ (152cm) above the deck. The stability of Supernova was not really affected. It was a different story with a more tippy Thunderbolt kayak. I wish I could place my DSLR camera, Canon 5D, that high in a kayak.

    GoPro HD Hero Camera

    The camera was automatically shooting pictures every 30 seconds. It’s possible to select some decent shots from 700 frames. Of course, had also my Pentax Optio W30 handy. I am getting ready to shoot video.

    GoPro HD Hero Camera

    The same position of the mast, but the camera was lowered by 4″.

    GoPro HD Hero Camera

    The last frame with a 0.5s long exposure: finishing my paddling after the sunset.


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    Related posts:
    Kayak Video Camera Mast – Sticky Pod Combined with Monopod
    Paddling with Canon PowerShot G11 Camera on a Monopod Mast
    A New Shooting Angle – Camera Video Mast on Thunderbolt Kayak
    Sticky Pod Review – A Suction Cup Camera Mount for Kayak Photography
    South Platte River with GoPro Hero HD Camera and Thunderbolt Kayak


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  • Annoying Orange – The Annoying Orange

    Orange annoys the hell out of his friend Apple. iPHONE & iPOD GAME: bit.ly TSHIRTS: bit.ly TWITTER: twitter.com FACEBOOK: facebook.com FACEBOOK APP: apps.facebook.com DAILYBOOTH: dailybooth.com WATCH MY EPISODES! www.youtube.com CREATED by DANEBOE: youtube.com
    Video Rating: 4 / 5

  • Robert Scoble Interviewing Trey Ratcliff on His New iPad App “Stuck on Earth”

    A few weeks ago I jumped the gun (as I frequently do) and published a review of +Trey Ratcliff‘s awesome new app “Stuck on Earth.” This is a brand spanking new iPad app that is probably the single best app for traveling photographers that exists on the market today. It absolutely blows away anything by the likes of Conde Nast or Lonely Planet or the Travel Channel or any of these other attempts at serious travel apps. This app was built and designed for photographers and best of all it’s absolutely free.

    It’s a wonderful tool for you to use in planning a trip and seeing both highly rated flickr geotagged photos as well as user curated lists of some of the best photo spots on the planet. I was one of the contributors to the app and contributed the 50 best secret shots to shoot San Francisco.

    Above is a video interview by two of my favorite people in the tech/photographic community +Robert Scoble and +Trey Ratcliff (I’m putting +’s in front of people’s names sometimes now because Google+ is so awesome and I want to link to people’s Google+ accounts so that you will follow them there too). :)

    Also here is Trey’s announcement on the app on Google+ from yesterday as well as a very good conversation about why he built if for the iPad initially instead of Android (even though some Android users are getting pissed about this — both Trey and I are Android users by the way).

    Anyways, if you are an iPad user (I bought one just to get this app) GO GET THIS APP HERE NOW!!!


    Thomas Hawk Digital Connection

  • Digital Outback Photo publishes The Art and Craft of HDR Photography

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    Digital Outback Photo has published ‘The Art and Craft of HDR Photography’ by Uwe and Bettina Steinmueller. The 100 page e-book, written and published by the authors of dpreview.com’s ‘The Art of HDR’ series of guides, can be downloaded as a printable pdf. It is available for an introductory price of $ 15.95, rather than the usual $ 19.95.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • How to make Stereoscopic 3D Movies with Sony Vegas Pro for Amber / Blue Glasses

    errington1000.webs.com *For Amber Blue Glasses.* How to make any video 3D. You can make it 3D with only 1 camera too! The 3D effect is called an anaglyph. Got your glasses?
    Video Rating: 4 / 5

    errington1000.webs.com *For Magenta Green Glasses*. How to make any video 3D. You can make it 3D with only 1 camera too! The 3D effect is called an anaglyph. Got your glasses?

  • Nikon updates firmware for Nikkor 1 zoom lenses

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    Nikon has released firmware updates for its Nikkor 1 10-30mm f/3.5-5.6, 30-100mm f/3.8-5.6 and 10-100mm f/4.5-5.6 lenses. The 10-30mm and 30-100mm lenses are upgraded to firmware v1.02, which corrects a bug which causes an incorrect aperture value to be recorded. Meanwhile the 10-100mm power zoom firmware moves to v1.01 that, like the 1.01 upgrades for the other two lenses, addresses a problem by which images could ‘be blurred when shot immediately after the camera was shaken or moved quickly’.

    News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

  • Weekend at Whit’s (Nikon D300s – Short)

    Short film shot with a Nikon D300s dslr. Music is “The Boat Song” and “Home” by Set Sail, An awesome Australian based band. Buy their record for only 1 dollar! setsail.bandcamp.com
    Video Rating: 5 / 5

  • Diskussionseröffnung: Kinderfotos im Netz

    Mit der täglich wachsenden Zahl an Kameras, die eingesetzt werden und der Plattform Internet wird auch in zunehmendem Maße das Leben in all seinen Facetten dokumentiert und präsentiert. Dazu gehören auch Kinderfotos.

    Was für die einen Grund zur Besorgnis ist, kann für die anderen Teil des Lebens und nicht mehr wegzudenken sein. Bisher sind mir, was das Thema Kinderfotos im Netz betrifft, alle möglichen Argumente und Haltungen begegnet. Denn jemand, der selbstverständlich Fotos seiner Kinder oder jüngeren Geschwister ins Netz stellt, sagt mit seinem Handeln, dass er dies unbedenklich findet.

    Das Thema ist groß. Und es ist komplex. Hier gibt es keine einfachen Antworten, denn was für den einen tragbar ist, bringt den anderen um den Verstand. Kinder sind unser Heiligtum und somit ist die Diskussion um das Thema (zu Recht) emotional und wichtig.

    Und: Positionen wie “Kinderfotos im Internet gehören verboten!” sind genauso destruktiv und hohl wie der Satz “Eltern, die ihre Kinderfotos nicht ins Netz stellen, sind doch nur Angsthasen”. Jeder kann und wird das nur für sich selbst entscheiden. Verallgemeinerungen bringen nicht weiter und BILD-taugliche Parolen verletzen eher, als dass sie uns helfen, einen guten Weg zu finden.

    Deshalb weigere ich mich auch, hier “klipp und klar” Position zu beziehen und das, was ich denke, großmäulig herauszupfeifen. Und mein Anliegen heute ist dementsprechend gar nicht, klarzustellen, was richtig oder falsch, dumm oder angemessen ist, sondern hinzuhören. Bei Euch. Ich möchte wissen, wie Ihr das Thema seht. Inbesondere die Eltern unter uns.

    Welche Gedanken habt Ihr dazu? Wovor habt Ihr Angst – wovor keine? Zeigt Ihr Eure Kinder im Netz oder nicht? Warum? Wo seht ihr die Vorteile? Habt Ihr schonmal schlechte Erfahrungen gemacht (welche?) oder sind diese durchgehend positiv? Sprecht Ihr mit Euren Kindern darüber?

    Ich bin gespannt.


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