This is perhaps old hat to you seasoned photographers, however, for those of you like me and learn something new every day, this could prove useful. Regular checks for updates to your camera’s firmware can truly save you headache in the field. Firmware updates for me are something I have never really thought to check for. Unlike my computer, I do not seek updates to the operating system. For whatever reason, I have just never done that. Until a recent problem changed my mind. (more…)
Syl Arena is guest blogger today at Scott Kelby’s Blog showing off his talented skills and helping motivate many others that have an interest in Photography.
Syl adds a little boost of encouragement and enlightenment for everyone, go and check out his post out over at SK’s Blog.
I finally found some time to try out the Fotodog Technique from his previous Post “When Light and Right Come Together” … I did some minor adjustments and decided to go with my off camera Canon 580EXii and shoot remotely from the bottom up. I came out with several results but liked this one alot!
Here are the spec’s on the shot • My Canon XTi on a tripod • F22 • 1/200 • Remote Canon 580EXii (no snoot) No much editing in Photoshop, just a small crop and a little color balance adjustment!
I found this technique to be pretty interesting consider that you can point the lighting in many different directions and get really cool results.
My hat is off to Fotodog for bringing this style shot to our attention… Now I have another new lighting technique to mess around with.
I encourage you to try out the technique with various setting and come here to show off your results. Have fun
Click and drag several times with your Rectangle tool (M) to draw some rectangles. Without looking in your Control panel to see the Width and Height, what was the size of the last rectangle that you drew? Click once with your Rectangle tool and you’ll know precisely. The drawing tools in Illustrator automatically pick up the specifications of the last object drawn with that tool, and will keep picking up those specs until you quit the application, or you change them in the tool’s Options window, or you click and drag with the tool.
Do the drawing tools always work this way? Actually, no! There are some exceptions. Sometimes similar tools, like the Rectangle tool and the Rounded Rectangle tool, borrow information from each other. If you draw a rectangle and then switch to the Rounded Rectangle tool and click in your document, it’s Width and Height will match the size of your most recently drawn rectangle.
Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Adobe® Certified Training Provider.
Okay guys and gals I’m here writing to help your day go by a little better with a small shot of encouragement. I call this post “Step Your Game Up Tuesday – Show me What You Got”, simply because I want to see what motivates you! Along with that I would like to help implement some small gestures for your daily routine to see if we can make things happen right for you!
Syl Arena is guest blogger today at Scott Kelby’s Blog showing off his talented skills and helping motivate many others that have an interest in Photography.
Click and drag several times with your Rectangle tool (M) to draw some rectangles. Without looking in your Control panel to see the Width and Height, what was the size of the last rectangle that you drew? Click once with your Rectangle tool and you’ll know precisely. The drawing tools in Illustrator automatically pick up the specifications of the last object drawn with that tool, and will keep picking up those specs until you quit the application, or you change them in the tool’s Options window, or you click and drag with the tool.
