I’m pleased to announce a brand new guided photo tour of Japan for Fall 2009. This is a unique opportunity to photograph both modern and ancient Japan for 11 days, from October 3-13. Explore Japan in the company of two professional photographers. Join Amadou Diallo and Hirotaka Kasuga for a fascinating look into Japanese [...]
Archive for February 2009
Guided Photography Tour of Japan
February 27, 2009Atlanta Exhibition of Piezography Sepia Prints
February 25, 2009Carbon Sepia Pigment Prints On Exhibition at Emory University’s Carlos Museum The exhibition of Egyptian Archeological Photographs was organized and designed by Nancy Roberts and Bruce Raper under the direction of Peter Lacovara, Senior Curator of Ancient Egyptian art at the Carlos Museum. The photographer Harry Burton (1879-1940) was an accomplished archaeological photographer who began [...]
Lightroom Monochrome Tints and Split Tones
February 25, 2009This is a followup to the Color to Grayscale tutorial. Here you’ll learn how to apply tints and split tones to grayscale images. (This video is available in HD format. Set HD to On in the top right corner. To enlarge the video, click the full screen mode icon in the lower right corner.)
Collateral Damage
February 24, 2009Today’s NY Times has a story about the apparently growing field of lenders who accept high-priced artwork as loan collateral. They go by names like Art Capital and Art Finance Partners, rather than, say Petey’s Pawn Shop. But the concept is identical. You use art that you own to get a loan at relatively high [...]
Lightroom Convert Color to Grayscale
February 24, 2009In this tutorial learn how to convert images from color to grayscale in Lightroom. (This video is available in HD format. Set HD to On in the top right corner. To enlarge the video, click the full screen mode icon in the lower right corner.)
Using Lightroom Metadata Presets
February 23, 2009As promised in an earlier post, here’s a video tutorial that shows how create metadata presets in Lightroom, embedding ownership info in your files. (The video was captured in HD. For maximum legibility, set HD to “On” in the top right corner and click the full screen mode icon in the lower right corner.)
Leopard, CS4 and printer profiling
February 20, 2009Update: I’ve added supplementary steps (1a and 2a) for those who need to print grayscale targets. With the introduction of Leopard (OS 10.5) in late 2007, Apple made significant “enhancements” to the printing pipeline that, to this day are still wreaking havoc on color managed workflows. One particular problem, and there are a few, involves [...]
Facebook Terms of Service
February 17, 2009Everyone who’s on Facebook, raise your hand. Everyone who’s on Facebook and has read their terms of service raise your hand (mine was down too). Those of you sharing photos via your Facebook page should be aware that by uploading those images you have granted Facebook an unrestricted license to use your work in practically any way [...]
Lightroom Shortcuts
February 16, 2009If you plan to use any piece of software on a regular basis, learning the keyboard shortcuts for common tasks gives the biggest bang for the buck in terms of increasing productivity. And whenever I introduce new users to Lightroom, it’s hard to escape the feeling that you’d be utterly lost in the app without [...]
ICP Weekend Workshop
February 13, 2009Thanks to all of you who have registered for this weekend’s workshop at ICP. In Black and White With Your DSLR, we’ll explore a b/w capture to print workflow using Adobe’s Lightroom 2. On Saturday we will meet in Digital Lab A. After a welcome session, course overview and some Lightroom setup, we’ll be heading outside [...]
