Links, links, and more links

Here are your links for a beautiful winter day!

How to take better vacation photos

Lightroom Video Tutorial: Portrait Sharpening

Have a new video tutorial on how to do portrait sharpening in Lightroom, which sometimes requires a different process than just a general image sharpening, because you may not want the effect to be global.

Watch it and let me know what you think. As always, if there is something specific you would like me to cover in Lightroom, let me know in the comments.

Hot links, get yer hot links!

Links for a beautiful Tuesday afternoon

Joao Silva, an amzing photographer, had his legs blown off when he stepped on a land mine 2 weeks ago. He kept shooting... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/world/asia/24silva.html?_r=2
And would love our support:  Support Joao

The Photoshop channel on YouTube

David. Nuff said

35 photos. 35 stories

X-Equals link party

Have fun!

The most important photo walk ever...

As many of you know, this past Saturday, 11/13/10, was the American Diabetes Association's Step Out Walk at Universal Studios. My daughter Stella was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes this past summer. I have been involved in many different charities, and have shot many previous events for the MS Society, but this one, well it was personal.

Got Links?

This weeks assortment of randomness from around the web!

3 free presets from Preset Heaven

Take your DSLR out for a spin

Moose Peterson with some insights from his new book "Captured: Lessons From Behind the Lens of a Legendary Wildlife Photographer"

11 tips for landscape photography

National Geographic Photography Contest

Buy an Eye_Fi memory card, and get a free 1 year Flickr Pro account

Lot's and LOT"S of Lightroom resources from Adobe

5 basic portrait lighting set-ups

3 seperate resources on your camera and the law:

Top 10 misconceptions

Legal rights of photographers

From USA Today

And if you haven't had a chance to, we are still seeking donations for the American Diabetes Association. If we reach $6000 by 5:00 today, I will shave off the goatee... ;-)

Lightroom Tutorial Before & After

In this 3rd installment, watch as I fumble around, my computer inexplicably slows down, I grab the wrong after image, and I have several seconds of dead air. Do you like train wrecks?

Come on, would you have it any other way?

In this Lightroom tutorial, I take you completely through the editing of an image, from start to finish, as we touch on a lot of the major adjustment tools in Lightroom. The develop pallette, adjustment brush, gradient tool, vignette, the spot removal tool (which for the life of me, I couldn't remember the name of!) and a preview of the sharpening mask.


Lightroom Tutorial Before & After from Frank Wisneski on Vimeo.



As always, if there is something specific you would like to see in Lightroom, let me know in the comments.

The American Diabetes Step Out Walk

This is a big week at our house. This Saturday will be the American Diabetes Step Out Walk. I have never had a more important or personal connection to any organization. My daughter was diagnosed on July 30th of this year. We are so proud of how well my little peanut has handled all of the life altering things that have bombarded her since her diagnosis. She was thrust into a very adult situation, and has been forced to forgo a lot of the spontaneity that goes along with being a child, and I am amazed everyday by her.

Before & After

I get asked a lot how I add so much "POP" to an image. Well, here is a little teaser. Stay tuned for a tutorial on how I made this image "POP"!

Here is the before:

And hit the jump for the after...

My 2nd Lightroom Tutorial!

Hey everyone!

And tonight we have another video Lightroom tutorial. This is another take on making collages in the Lightroom Print Module. Create a collage that can be used for business collateral, such as gallery posters, a concert poster for a client, postcards, etc.

Come listen and watch as the little dog barks, the big dog gnaws a bone, I make up a new word, and see if you can spot the MAJOR spelling error! Hopefully, the sound is much better on this one, let me know.



Maybe 1 of these times, I'll do this after a few New Castles. It could only be better. ;-)

And don't forget, if you joined us for the Dia de los Muertos event at Live Oak Memorial Park, post your images HERE!

Thursday 11/4/10 Photography links

More helpful links to get you through your day...

Shooting kids "Guerilla Style"!

The Adorama Learning Center for photography and post tutorials

Syl Arena is 1/2 way through his 4 part series on Canon Speedlights

Canon has rebates! DSLR rebates through 11/24

Canon lens rebates through 1/8/11

The top 10 ways to automate Lightroom with Julianne Kost pt 1

Hasselblad has a promotion too... :-)

Enjoy! And just keep shooting

Live Oak Memorial Park Dia De Los Muertos

Hey there everybody!

Had a fantastic time at Live Oak's annual Dia De Los Muertos event last night. And WOW has it grown! If you are stopping by to view images, you can find them here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/liveoakdiadelosmuertos/

In order to view or post images you took there you will need a flickr account. Sign up is free. It is the only way we can get this many photographers to share the images with the viewing public. If you took images at the event, please feel free to post them to the group. Remember to tag them with "Dia De Los Muertos" and "Live Oak Memorial Park". If the images weren't shot at that specific event, they will be removed.

Hope you had a wonderful time, and I look forward to seeing all the images. There are already images in the group, and I would imagine that by this weekend, there will be many more.

Enjoy!

Frank

Link madness!

Happy All Soul's Day everyone! Here are some things I've found interesting in the past couple of days.

Have you gotten your free OnOne presets yet? They also have free Photoshop actions/frames and presets for ACR: OnOne freebies

Joe McNally discusses mistakes

David duChemin on loosing your vision

Scott Kelby shoots fashion

An interesting take on Creative Commons

More free actions for Photoshop

More tutorials from Adobe

And the Speedlighter lights the OneLighter

Armageddon

When it rained Saturday morning, I knew I wanted to be up at the Griffith Park Observatory for sunset, as it would be a nice, clear view. So after a few hours at Hollywood Forever's Dia De Los Muertos, a few of us headed up to Griffith Park for sunset. I had a jonesing that nothing but a sunset could cure ;-)

All though all the clouds cleared out, I wasn't disappointed. And then they fired off the nukes...

Shot with the old Canon 5D and the Canon 17-40 f4L. A couple more after the jump

Dia De Los Muertos at Live Oak Memorial Park

For those of you planning to attend the Dia De Los Muertos event at Live Oak Memorial Park with me on 11/2/10 in Monrovia, the management there would like us to provide images. To make it easy for all involved, I have set up a specific Flickr group just for images shot there. Please do not submit images that were shot at Hollywood Forever Cemetery or anything else, they will be deleted.

The Flickr group is here: Live Oak Dia De Los Muertos

Tag your images "dia de los muertos" and "Live Oak Memorial Park"

Thanks everyone, and see you tomorrow!

The event is here:

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A day of change

Lot's of changes going on recently, and I thought I would let you know about a few of them. Many of you already know that today is my last day teaching at Tri-Community. Will I be back? I don't know, but I do know that it will be quite a while before I would consider it. The demands on my time have taken their toll, and my family, and my own photography need me more. If you get the chance, please stop by tonight and say "see you soon".

As a few of you already know, mostly by keen observation, I have also left Faded & Blurred. My participation there, and ability to contribute new content have not been to a level that I could consider myself a partner. With all of my other obligations taking precedent, it wasn't fair to Jeffery and Nikki, so I have opted out. I will now just be a participant, and plan to continue joining in on the photo walks. Better step up your game too, because if they have a contest, I will be eligible to win... ;-)

Now with that being said, and with all of these other constraints being lifted, I feel better. I'm smiling. I'm happy. My family and daughter are good. And I am turning this little spot right here around. I will need something to do every Monday Wednesday, and Thursday night, so expect to see a lot more, right here. As witnessed last week, I plan on producing more Lightroom tutorials (another one will go up this week), links to photography related articles and tutorials, and showcasing my work.

If you have some specific Lightroom questions you want answered, please let me know below. As always, If I don't know, I will go find out.

And don't forget tomorrow night (11/2/10), the Dia de los Muertos event at Live Oak Mortuary in Monrovia. Many of us will be there at 7 pm.

Stay tuned...

And please enjoy this, I sure did: