By Peter Phun, on August 27th, 2010%
You probably don’t have many pictures of yourself while on vacation.
After all you’re the one who’s always behind the camera.
Even in this age of camera self-timers and after market wireless remotes, including yourself is problematic at times.
Even after you’ve set everything on the camera and all that’s needed is for someone to press the shutter, it never seems to quite work the way you want, isn’t it?
If you have access to Adobe Photoshop CS3 and above, here’s a simple way of adding yourself in a picture.
Remember, I don’t consider myself a photoshop guru even though I play one in real life.
Besides, I prefer to shoot everything in the camera than fix it in Photoshop, but that’s just me.
Whenever you enter the back-end realm of post production a.k.a. as the digital darkroom, things can get complicated real fast.
Adobe software versions change almost as quickly as I change my underpants, that’s why I always skip every other version and upgrade once every 2 years.
If I weren’t teaching, I probably wouldn’t upgrade as often. Continue reading Including yourself in vacation pictures
By Peter Phun, on August 6th, 2010%
Where the heck is that picture?
Exquisite image–A green turtle photographed by my old buddy Stephen Yeow off the waters of the island of Sipadan earlier this year.
My first Mac laptop, a G3 Powerbook, had 6GB of hard drive storage.
At that time my largest Compact Flash card had a 128 MB capacity.
Today, about a dozen years later, just one of my Secure Digital cards alone easily holds more data than that hard drive.
You don’t have to be a long time digital photographer like me to see that as long as you own a digital camera, you’re headed down the same path as me–just a little later.
So you better get organized and develop some sort of workflow–fancy word for a system of messing with your digital images.
If you don’t, good luck finding your pictures when you want them.
In fact, if you don’t practice safe computing like making frequent redundant backups, you might one day lose everything.
I’m a Mac users but I often teach on Windows so I won’t be dragged into which platform is superior.
Repeat after me, “Nikon or Canon, Mac or Windows, neither blows especially when your work flows.”
Continue reading Managing digital images
By Peter Phun, on July 28th, 2010%
Two posts back, I mentioned Eye-Fi as a possible solution for digital photographers who have a “wait problem.”
It is inevitable, we get so used to the immediate nature of digital photography.
I’m sure I’m not alone.
As soon as we are done taking pictures, we’d like for those images to get to our computers ready to edit by the time we sit down.
Not everyone using a digital camera wants to edit their pictures.
Some may just want to shoot, upload to an online sharing website.
And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Continue reading Eye-Fi Review
By Peter Phun, on December 8th, 2009%
Every semester I try to end my photo class on a high note by having my students participate in a group show at the local coffeehouse Back to the Grind downtown.
As usual, I never make it mandatory because the 2 11″ x 14″ prints and frames can be a lot of money for college students.
I’ve been . . . → Read More: End of fall semester student show
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