Adobe Release Major ACR Update!
Adobe released a bunch of very cool updates to Photoshop and Lightroom today, but I’m most excited about ACR! The video below just hints at the upgrades. Check it out and then update today!
Epson Print Layout 1.4.0
I gotta tell ya, the one aspect of moving that worried me the most were my printers. As you know, I love to print and them printers are my children! A lot of prints go out of this office both as income and gifts, a lot. So when I fired up the Epson P7000 & P800 (soon the P900) and I saw no issues, I was so relieved! You see, printers don’t like being moved. The heads are really sensitive and while I’ve packed a few, I’ve never put them on a moving truck and had them bounced for a thousand miles. With print orders backing up in the office, I was anxious to get the printers set up and cranking. With both printers operational, I was even more excited to see Epson Print Layout is now 1.4.0. I find it quite the luxury to literally print from anywhere because it’s wireless and with Epson Print Layout, which is a plug-in in Photoshop, it’s a simple couple of clicks and the printers whirl up and go!
All you have to do is your normal print workflow (here’s my free printing guide including EPL) and click Automate > Epson Print Layout. Make your selections in the EPL UI and click print. It’s really that simple, way too simple to be true. The best part, the Epson Print Layout is FREE! Lots of folks are printing right now and this update makes it just that much better!
New England Lighthouse & Fall Color Adventure – Week #2!
Surf bounding at your feet, fall color lining the road ahead, a foghorn calling in the distance with fresh lobster on the plate, all this can only mean one thing. Maine in October! The response to our first week was overwhelming so we’re offering a second week. You have waves crashing on rugged shores (screaming for a 6x ND shot), New England architecture and colors framed in the red Maples, and of course, majestic lighthouses. Color and black and white, it excites the senses and challenges the skills. It’s such a target-rich area that it hurts to pass up photographs and that’s why we’re going back. This is a favorite locale of ours we have ventured to for decades and yet, there are new locations and photographs to make. So we’re going back and invite you to come along for the fun and photos!
The dates are Sept.30 – Oct.05 2020 (fly into Portland ME on the 30th and out the 5th). We will pick you up at the airport and then take you back and in between, we will shoot, work in the digital darkroom, and have a ton of fun! We’re inviting six-shooters on the adventure, the price is $1790 including all of this and more!
Wonder just what kind of photographs you can expect to come back with? Check out our workshop gallery to get a sample. And with these photographs you take are all the lessons, techniques and passion that WILL move your photography forward!
We are very excited to be ablt to offer All our Workshop / Adventure participants a full, one-year KelbyOne Pro Subscription (with paid registration starting July, 2018). This is being made possible by our dear friends at KelbyOne, which we are incredibly grateful for. This provides you to ALL of the KelbyOne Classes (and their discounts on other products) including Moose’s Classes.
We’d be honored if you were one of the six shooters (two spots left) joining us! 1/2 of the price is due at registration, the balance 30 days out. If you’re interested, give Sharon a call at the office, 760.924.8632 (M-F 9-5). Can’t wait to go!!!New England Lighthouse & Fall Color Workshop!
Teach to Improve Your Photography
It’s a very old concept that has real relevance today. When you help, assist teach another photographer a concept and you have to verbalize it, you not only help that other photographer, you help yourself. This is because when we have to verbalize something, we think through that process and that solidifies it in our own mind firming up what works and filtering out what doesn’t. As we shake some of the shooting bugs out and get back to shooting, do it with a friend (keeping your social distance) and take a turn going over techniques with each other. Talk them out, apply them, and look at the results. It’s not only fun, but it will help you improve.
Precision Camera & Me – Backyard Bird Photography Online Seminar
Come and join us!
Backyard Bird Photography
with Moose Peterson
To keep everyone safe, this class is currently online only! We are using a website that requires no software download, full access to class handouts and the ability to chat and ask questions with your class. More information will be sent upon purchase.
There is one place that I always turn to for great photography, bird photography in particular, and that’s my own backyard.
For nearly forty years, the backyard has served as my testing grounds, proving grounds and big money maker. Want to learn how you can do the same thing in your own backyard? Because YOU can. That’s what we’re going to talk about in this live, interactive webcast.
The session will begin with a foundation on birds — from attracting them to photographing them. We’ll cover where to place feeders, protective shrubs and most importantly – the photographic perch. We’ll also talk about gear, lenses, flash and technique.
After I cover these important basics, the airwaves will be opened up to you for your questions, and we’ll work on finding solutions for you. We’ll keep our social distance while learning and having fun. Come join in for a great time!
Desperate Times Call For …
yep, photographing … wildflowers! You read it correctly, I’m heading out for some possey time. Why? If you’ve followed me for a while you know there is one thing I think I really stink at and that’s photographing macros, flowers. Why? I don’t like getting down low and sticking my butt in the air waiting for a blossom to stop moving in the breeze (cause a breeze ALWAYS comes up as soon as I do). At the same time, a lot of your images are really so much better than mine and I enjoy your images. But I know in my heart of hearts that the only way I might get better is if I go out and meet this challenge. The Ranch has wildflowers coming up so it’s time to get past my fear and go for it (besides, once I go down to shoot, if I can’t get back up at The Ranch, I can just roll back down the hill to the office).
There is one bright spot to all of this, shooting with the Z7! I say that because of its image quality, small size and best of all, flip-out monitor. I’ll probably start with the 60f2.8 micro which I really love. It’s small, light and incredibly sharp. And since I’m going where no Moose has gone before, I will work at coming up with a more uncommon look at a common subject. You could say something between the two photos you see here. Artsy fartsy sort of, straight shot, sort of. If you don’t see a post for a few days, you know that I wasn’t completely successful and still rolling down the hill towards the off. Desperate times call for ….