Tuesday's Notes, News, and Tips

Good Morning Sunshine! - I used to wake my kids for school with that phrase when they were younger - boy, they hated it. Anyway, good things happenin' today. I am putting finishing touches on the "Digital Newsletter" today. It should email tomorrow - be sure you are signed up if you want to receive it - good stuff here. Here we go.

Canon Makes it Official
Yep, new cameras - Canon 1Ds Mark III, 21MP - whew! and Canon 40D, 10.1 MP, and a slew of others as well. I even like the new ELPH 950 - 12.1 MP, IS - looks sweet. I've been an ELPH shooter for years and love it for its compactness and quality. Get all the Canon News announcements right here.

And You Think You Got Problems
As a wedding shooter, we occasionally have some small, some large issues pop up in the course of the day - but a hurricane. I caught this story over at the Strobist blog and it "blew me away." (sorry) Seems our photog heard about my "Pole Cam" to get those over the head pics too.
Give it a quick read - fascinating.

Lighting Tutorials
There is more good education "stuff" on the Internet, and it's all free. PhotoFlex - the lighting gear manufacturer - has a whole slew of lighting tutorials right here - some really good lessons. Off to school we go.

Clean Out the Cobwebs
Sometimes we all need a little help getting our creative juices going. One of my favorite sites - Luminous Landscape, had a great article on creativity. It's a little long, but great info and a lot of food for thought. Read it slowly and thoughtfully - right here.

Now a little Fun
Check out this site - http://www.easypano.com/ - and watch some of the Panorama shows. The software takes your stitched panos and converts them into a flash show which you can easily post to your website. This whole thing sort of appealed to my "geek" side. I'm still trying to figure out what I'll do with it, but I did download the free trial.

Quick Photoshop Tip
Here is a TIP directly from Planet Photoshop.
..."Generally, when you apply a transformation to an object (scaling, rotating, distorting, perspective), you apply that transformation to the object itself. However, here’s a cool tip if you want to apply a transformation (using Free Transform) on a duplicate of your object, rather than on the original: Press Command-Option-T (PC: Control-Alt-T), then use the Free Transform tool as you usually would. You’ll notice that as you begin to transform, the original object remains untouched, and a copy is transformed instead. "...
Check out all their other tips right here.

Option #2
Last week I told you about a nifty piece of software that could recover data from your scratched CD's and DVD's - don't want to spend the $29 - watch the following post for an alternate solution. - Enjoy!