Friday News Nuggets
Oct. 3
7:59 am
Just a few quickies to round out the week:
- First, thanks to Alan Hess, whose Guest Post this week rocked (no pun intended). I loved having such a different angle, and I thought he did a great job taking us “backstage” at a concert shoot. Thanks Alan!
- Michael Tapes has launched a new blog over at RawWorkflow.com, and he has a follow-up to the Guest Blog post he did last week covering his incredibly handy “Instant JPEG from Raw” free utility. Here’s the link.
- Earlier this year I did a shot of our in-house Web Programmer Tommy Maloney’s pimped out Volvo, and Tommy entered the photo in a photography contest put on by IPD; a well-known company that sells custom Volvo performance gear and accessories, and son of gun—it won! Here’s the link, but the photo that won is shown above. Congrats Tommy! (P.S. Don’t race Tommy. It’s what you don’t see that matters!)
- We released another “CS4″ online class over at KelbyTraining.com; this one from our own Dave Cross, who did an amazing class on “Creative Suite Integration” between Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Here’s the link. Also, we were out in the field filming new sessions with Wedding Master David Ziser this week, and we’re in post-production on some new classes from Joe McNally!
- If you’re in the Orlando/Tampa, Florida area; I’m bringing my Lightroom 2 Tour one-day workshop to Orlando on Wednesday, Oct. 29th at the Orange County Convention Center, and I’ll hope you join me there. Also, my Dallas seminar is filling up fast (on the 27th), so if you’re planning on going—sign up now! Here’s the link with more details. Hope to see you in Orlando or Dallas! (P.S. I expect to be announcing another city next week!).
- Speaking of Lightroom; I ran across two reviews of my new Lightroom 2 for Digital Photographers Book this week; one at the Benson Blog (link) and one at the Australian photo blog “Lightly Toasted” (here’s that link).
Have a great weekend everybody. I have something cool planned for next week, if all goes well, so we’ll see you back here on Monday! 
Benson blog Scott, Belson is an outdoor superstore that sells picnic tables.
Thanks for re-posting the review, as a newer blogger I appreciate it.
-Nate B
nbenson.wordpress.com
Aww bless! Thanks for the link Scott.
Scott,
Could you post your set-up for the volvo shot: lighting, lens, and post? P-l-e-a-a-s-e!
Hi Scott,
It’s good to hear of all the new filming and post-production sessions of online class at KelbyTraining.com. I have a question in relation to releasing of such classes…… Ever since day one you have been advertising that you have 4 or 5 classes with Ben Willmore. You have even been promoting in the coming next column (for at least the last year) you have had “Tonal Adjustment in Photoshop” - Ben Willmore.
What’s up with that?????
To Bryan:
Rats—-I wish I had a photo of the shoot. I’ll check with RC to see if he has one, but I did use a Elinchrom 72″ Octabank on a boom arm. For the shot you see here, I had it placed directly over the car on a boom (with RC hanging onto that lightstand with all his might, because we didn’t want it to fall over and scratch Tommy’s car.
It was taken with a Nikon D300, at f/5.6 at 1/250 of a second at ISO 200. I shot in Manual mode (which I always do when using strobes), and it was shot with my 17-55mm lens, out wide at 17mm.
I did run the LucisArt plug-in on the photo to make the ground look really gritty, but I mostly removed the effect on the car (it looked too gritty), but left it on the tires and wheels. I did a bit of dodging and burning in Photoshop to lighten some areas, and darken others. Plus, I sharpened the living daylights out of it.
Hope that helps (in the meantime, I’ll check with RC for a set-up shot just in case).
-Scott
Hey, Scott, I sent a message earlier about the lightroom book that hadn’t made its way to me.
But to my suprise it was in the mail today. How did you do that?
(of course) I shoulda waited another day to ask… Oh, well, now I got the weekend to read it.
Thanks,
Dan
Where can one get the gel knee Pads?
Please schedule a Lightroom class in Denver.
Hi Scott,
Just back from France and was greeted by your Lightroom 2 book on the doorstep :o)
Thanks so much for sending it over; I’ve ready the first couple of chapters and have to say you’ve done an awesome job!!!!!
All the best to you and yours,
Glyn
re: my above comments on filming and post-production sessions of online class at KelbyTraining.com. above……. My comments were based on assumptions and not fact. I found out why the shows have not shown up as yet…..
I will promise (try to anyway) not to let my reactions be based on assumptions…. Sorry!
Dave