Black & White with...
I recently did a blog post for Nik Software on how I go about turning color concert images into Black & White images using Nik Silver Efex Pro 2 In the post I show how I go from this and change it to this The post is HERE, go check it out and remember, if you order any Nik Software,...
Photoshop World –...
Photoshop World Day 3, the final day, always seems to arrive way too quickly. It seems like just yesterday that Scott and I were introducing ourselves to a class full of concert Photography pre con attendees and now the whole show was winding down. But it wasn’t over quite yet....
Photoshop World –...
I was up bright and early since Day 2 of Photoshop World is when I get to teach my concert class and I take it really seriously so I make sure that I am fully prepared. That means getting up early and making sure that all the slides are in order and that the computer is working and...
Photoshop World –...
If you have never been to Photoshop World, then most of this post will seem really bizarre. What other conference puts on a keynote that changes themes every year, hires professional impersonators, produces fake commercials and gets Adobe to showcase its new technology...
NIK Software Creative E...
If you don’t own the Nik Software plugins, now is the time to grab them. Nik has put together a special limited production bundle of 3 of their most popular products, Color Efex Pro 4, Silver Efex Pro 2, and HDR Efex Pro into the Nik Creative Efex Collection. There are some...
Night and Low-Light Pho...
I am very happy to announce that my new book, Night and Low-Light Photography, Photo Workshop is about to hit the store shelves. As I write this it is already available as an ebook for the Kindle, iBooks, and the nook and will be shipping from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other retailers...
Tears for Fears
This post is about two separate things. The first is shooting Tears for Fears, the second is using a pre release version of Nik Software Color Efex Pro 4 to add a natural border look to each image. I want to start with the Nik software Color Efex Pro 4. If you read this blog you know that...
Backstage at the Photos...
If you have ever been to a Photoshop World, you know what a production the keynote is. If you haven’t been to a Photoshop World, the next one is in Washington DC for the first time and I am sure will be something memorable. The last Photoshop World took place in Las Vegas and the...
Book Review: Photoshop ...
I don’t do many book reviews here on my blog. I read a lot of books, some good, some bad and some great but I usually leave the book reviews to others. Today is an exception. A week or two ago I received my copy of Photoshop Compositing Secrets. Unlocking the Key to Perfect...
Photoshop User Magazine
If you are not a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals then you didn’t get the latest issue of the their magazine, Photoshop User in your mailbox. That means you missed getting my Real World Concert Photography article delivered right to your door....
Photoshop World 2011 Or...
There are two distinct parts to Photoshop World; the classes and the Expo. The expo floor is where the sponsors get to ply their wares. It is also the place where people can talk to the actual people who create the products that we use everyday. I wanted to do a post about some of the...
Photoshop World 2011 Or...
I woke up bright and early on Friday, the last day of Photoshop World. The sky had cleared and the view from my hotel promised a great day. I was looking forward to catching a few classes and maybe even getting a few shots in at the Wescott booth. I spend a lot of time working in Adobe...
Photoshop World 2011 Or...
Day three started with a flash and a rumble. I woke up thinking that someone was using a flash in my hotel room, which didn’t seem right. Turns out I had fallen asleep with the curtains partly open and the flash I saw was lightning. The weather had gone from a slight drizzle the...
Photoshop World 2011 Or...
Day two started really early for me. I had to get the three images from the concert pre conference work shop over to the convention center so that the crew running the keynote presentation could get the images into the presentation at the right spot and make sure it was all running...
Photoshop World 2011 Or...
Last week was the Photoshop World Conference and Expo in Orlando Florida and it was amazing. Every year it seems to just get better. It may be that I am getting more comfortable in the role of instructor, it may be that the staff keeps getting better (not even sure that is possible), it...
Photoshop World 2011
Have you been to Photoshop World? If you are a photographer, photoshop user, designer, professional or amateur you should seriously consider going to Photoshop World. I went to my first Photoshop World back in 2002 when it was held at the San Diego Convention Center. It was a two day...
Silver Efex Pro2 –...
Concert lighting can be really tough to work with. One solution to crappy lights is to turn a bad color image into a great black and white image. This is something that I have been doing for years and Silver Efex Pro made it easy. Now Silver Efex Pro 2 makes it even easier with the new...
Silver Efex Pro2 –...
I wanted to expand a little on the borders I have been using in Silver Efex Pro 2. For this example I took an image of Rob Zombie from the 2010 Mayhem festival that was really frustrating me due to the solid green wash of light. This was taken at ISO 1600, f/2.8 and 1/250 of a second. I...
Silver Efex Pro2 –...
I have been a really big fan of Nik Softwares Silver Efex Pro since it first came out. I have always loved turning color photographs to black and white and have tried just about every method to do so. From the simple desaturate to dropping a gradient layer over the image to multi-step...
