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August 26th, 2007

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Canon Powershot SD950 (IXUS960) IS

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The Canon Powershot SD950 (Digital IXUS960) IS is a 12.1 Megapixel point-and-shoot digital camera features 1/1.7-inch CCD, DIGIC III Image Processor, 3.7x optical zoom lens with a shift-type optical Image Stabilizer (IS) system and 2.5-inch LCD monitor with wide viewing angle. The camera measures 95.9 x 59.9 x 27.6 mm (3.8 x 2.4 x 1.1 in.) and weighs approx. 165 g (5.8 oz.)
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Overall Rating: 4 out of 5 stars | Latest Price Info

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My new Canon EOS 40D arrived!

Just picked up my new 40D yesterday. I haven’t had time to do go through all the new functions yet, but then 3″ LCD is obviously a major improvement from the tiny 1.8″ LCD on my old 20D. Initial impression about focus was good. Especially the other 8 focusing spots other than the center one. They seemed much more sensitive and quicker to focus, probably because they are all cross type sensors now. Live view is actually quite easy to use, once you have selected it in the custom menu. the shutter/mirror noise is MUCH quieter than the 20D.

I’ll just put up one shot I took at Hong Kong Computer & Communications Festival 2007 yesterday.

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Last night was a great wedding for me too- down at Surf and Sand in Laguna with a great couple- Mike and Julie got a lot of practice during their engagement shoot in Central Park in May.

My good buddy Mario from Vero Image helped myself and a new assistant, Jeni (no, not my wife) to get some killer images at one of my favorite venues ever.

Jeni did great at thinking for herself- I like to let assistants and second shooters be free and use their own brains to express themselves with their own style instead of shooting like me which wouldn't be true. By the looks of her images, we will be seeing a lot more of her in the future- she was great to be around.

I also got to work with a great coordinator for the first time. Maria Lindsay and her assistant were totally on-top of everything and still easy to work with.


Mario got some extra-credit while I was shooting the boys:


At the bell-hop's desk, yes, that's a phone on the left- we'll Photoshop that out during the edit...Such a beautiful...
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Pejman and Diana at Coyote Hills

Stef and Brandon score again!!

I spoke with Stefanie last night at midnight as we were both driving home from our respective weddings. She told me I would be very proud of the wedding she just shot... I was!! She and Brandon totally exceeded my expectations once again!!

They got some amazing images of the good looking couple Pejman and Diana- looks like they did a great job too!

The wedding just just the other side of the hill from my house at Coyote Hills Golf Course- such a beautiful venue. I have been waiting seven years to shoot there!

Check out the slideshow HERE!





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RAW or JPEG? RAW!

Well, I use RAW because I want more freedom while shooting pictures. I really love that I can worry about WB after I take a picture. If it was only because of WB, I would still shooting RAW. What about exposure? You can easily correct exposure in post production without ruining your picture. OK, if you blow your highlights, you can’t do much about it. With JPEG you must be very careful in post production, since “post production” is done, when you squeeze shutter release button. There are some geniuses, who will like you to think, that using JPEG is for ones, that know how to use their camera. Rubbish. Next statement is, that using JPEG is like shooting with slides. But with slides you did get better image IQ and selecting right settings is a must. It’s not an option. Maybe they will also throw in that you will spend less time in post production with your pictures. Of course you will, since you done that in the field! Oh, really. But let’s be honest here. Shooting JPEG does not mean, that you are done with post production. True? But what about those pictures, that are “keepers” and they turn bad, because you choose wrong settings or conditions were changing without you noticing it or simply you didn’t have time to change your settings? You could spend a lot of time trying to rescue only one ruined picture. If you could rescue it at all! But, who told you

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Tip 6: Using radial blur to create motion (intermediate)

This is something I have only discovered recently, so I am not too familiar with how to use it, but for this tutorial we will give it a go anyway. GMB has kindly allowed me to use his picture for this tutorial. I will be using his image below, to create the one below it.



Begin by opening the image and cropping to remove the distracting trees on the right. Create a duplicate layer and go to filter>blur>radial blur. Select Zoom and make sure the focal point of the zoom is where you want it, in this case where the road begins. Since photoshop doesnt let you select the point off your image, this may take some trial and error. Set the zoom to as much as you like, I used an amount of 63. When you are done you will have an image looking like this



You can leave it looking like this but I chose to erase some of the blur around the focal point, using eraser and opacity set to 30%, so we end up with something looking like this.



next to make it dark and moody create a new...
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tip 5: Portraits (intermediate)

Now we have mastered some photoshop basics, lets move on to something more advanced, editting portraits. As a woman I like pictures of me online to look as good as possible, as Im sure any other woman does. Lets start with a stock photo, here I have used one from Deviantart.

http://dust-stock.deviantart.com/art/window2-62902157

begin by duplicating the background layer. We will start by using clone stamp tool or healing brush tool (for newer versions of photoshop) to edit out the spots on her face. Select clone stamp, select an area of the girls face close to where the spot is, hold down alt to select the patch of skin to clone from, release alt and clone away. Make sure your paintbrush is a small size. Ctrl + or - zooms in and out of your image. Here is mine:




I also added a sharpening layer (see previous tip) using the high pass filter set to 5. Press ctrl+alt+shift+e to duplicate the sharpened layer.

Blur this layer and set it to soft light as per tip 2. If you find the shadows too harsh select the eraser tool and erase away. Since I like the keep the eyes sharp I often erase the blurred/soft light eyes layer. Following that make a new layer to dodge and burn as you like, I...
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…geesh…could you imagine if i walked away from this session w/o photographing this girl…….

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