Monthly Archives: April 2015

ACR and RAW: Two of the Best Things You Can Do For Your Images

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Dawn, Hallett Peak and Flattop Mountain. Before and After ACR.

Alpenglow on Hallet Peak and Flattop Mountain. Left side: Before processing with ACR. Right side: After processing with ACR. Click to see a larger version.

My eyes saw the wonderful alpenglow on the mountains, but it was barely there in the  JPEG file right out of the camera. The unprocessed RAW file looked just like the JPEG, but a RAW file has a lot more potential to bring out the color in the image. After the RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) the image matched what I saw with my eyes. The color channels in a RAW file have 16 times the color tonality range of the color channels in a JPEG file. If you aren’t shooting RAW files and processing them with ACR, you aren’t getting all the color quality your camera is capable of producing.

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Adobe’s Improved “Process Version” for Adobe Camera Raw

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Vermilion Lakes Sunset, new and old ACR "process versions".

Vermilion Lakes Sunset, new (top) and old (bottom) ACR “process versions”. Click on the photo to see a larger image.

Adobe’s newest “process version” for Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) provides better image processing for your RAW camera files. Photos you have processed with an older process version can look even better with the new version. For your images to look their very best you need to have the latest process version.

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The Best of the Best Photography Magazines

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Some of my favorite photography magazines.

My Favorite Photography Magazines

Photography is about inspiration as well as information. You can get both from a selection of well chosen photography magazines. There are a ton of choices out there and it seems like there are new ones every time I go to my favorite newsstand. But some are clearly better, more accurate, more useful, and with better images. The magazines that follow are, from my point of view, the best of the best photo magazines. But photography is a very personal thing so the best magazines for you will be different than the ones for someone else. Read through the descriptions below and the lists in the Links section at the end of the page.

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Stivers School for the Arts – Photography Exhibit and Auction

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Each year in the spring, Stivers School for the Arts in Dayton Ohio has an annual fund raising auction to support the photography department. Students at the school exhibit their work at the auction, plus a group of professional fine art photographers from around the world are invited to donate work for the auction. That is how I came to be involved. This was my first year.

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Nature Photography Workshop – OSU, Mansfield Ohio Campus

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Nature Collage

Nature Collage. Click to see a larger version.

CAPTURING NATURE’S WONDERS
Photography Workshop – OSU – Mansfield Ohio
May 9, 2015 – 9:00 am to 9:00 pm

I am excited. My next nature photography workshop in Ohio is fast approaching.

UPDATE: I just heard from the registrar and there are only two openings left for this workshop. If you want to get in you need to register ASAP.

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2015 Nature Photography Workshops – Registration Update

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Some of my 2015 workshops are almost full or full. Now is the time to sign up if you want to participate.

SUMMARY UPDATE April 14. The September Colorado workshop is now full. There are only two openings for the August Michigan workshop. There are only two openings for the May Ohio workshop. We still have some openings for the other workshops. Details below.

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Photography Exhibit and Auction, Stivers School for the Arts

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Art Exhibit and Auction, Stivers School for the Arts

Photography Exhibit and Auction, Stivers School for the Arts. Click to see a much larger image.

Stivers School for the Arts in Dayton Ohio has an annual photography exhibit and fund raising auction. I was invited to submit my work and this is my first year to participate. All the excitement was last night (April 10). This photo was created early in the evening before the gallery was packed with people. I will post more photos from the evening later on.

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Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo In Detroit

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Frida Kahlo and one of Diega Rivera's Murals

Frida Kahlo and one of Dieg0 Rivera’s Murals

DIEGO RIVERA AND FRIDA KAHLO IN DETRIOT.  Sunday, March 15, 2015 – Sunday, July 12, 2015.

“Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo were an explosive couple. He carried a pistol. She carried a flask. He romanticized Detroit. She rejected it. But what they shared was a belief in communism, a thirst for tequila and a passion for each other. Discover how they left their mark on Detroit. And how Detroit left its mark on their art. Exclusively on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit brings together nearly 70 works of art that depict the evolution of these two extraordinary artists’ careers, including eight of Rivera’s epic preparatory drawings for the Detroit Industry murals and 23 pieces by Kahlo, whose work has never before been shown at the DIA.”

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