New CPPA newsletter / WPPI / Northern

Hello All,

I know it's been a while since I posted. It was a busy holiday season!

Shot a wedding in Los Angeles, Xmas and a lot of reorganization of business stuff.

For everyone in CPPA wanted to let you know that a new Photoshop tutorial is on its way. The next one has to do with creating actions. I know a lot of people are out there selling actions, and many of them are very good.

With a little knowhow and patience though, you can create your own actions and save a lot of time in your Photoshop workflow.

If you're going to WPPI, let me know. I'll be there Feb 13 - Feb 18. I hope to learn a lot and catch up with a bunch of great people that I met around.

I also hope to see people at the Northern Illinois print competition. I just joined Northern or PPANI.

Print competition is a great way to improve your photography. It's not about creating images that are good for the customer. It's about pushing yourself and going up against the creme de la creme. By pushing yourself technically and creatively, you'll be able to up your talent and create EVEN BETTER images for your clients.

Hope to see you there, and I promise to post more.

5d MK2 rawks my socks off

At the CPPA meeting on 9-17-08, we were treated to something special. We were among the first people in the USA not affiliated with Canon to see the new 5D mk2.

All I can say is that I want one. Bad. Like sell a kidney bad.

Forgetting about the kick butt resolution. 5d Image quality that we have grown accustomed to and expect. Even forgetting the fact that they kept in the incredible direct print button.

I am soooooooooooooooo jacked about the video capabilites of this camera.

I know you're thinking whoa there kemosabe. You're a photographer not a videographer. Well I was thinking this could broaden the range of products that photographers offer, and even for cool marketing things you could do or put on your website.

But the proof is in the pudding and here is a sample of a 5d video.

http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=2086

that's some pretty tasting pudding if you ask me.

My first column

Hey y'all

So this is my first foray into the blogosphere. I'm using this blog to talk about Photography and Image Processing.

My first column is for the Chicagoland Professional Photographer's Association and be found here

I'll also be answering questions from that column in this blog and any other retouching / photography types of stuff.

Hope to hear from you!