Not your typical photo shoot

Thanks to an inside connection from NAPP member Stephen Zeller, today RC and I had a chance to tour an active Navy Destroyer. I had this crazy idea of doing a 40s pinup-style photo shoot on the ship and they said yes!

So here's a couple of sample images, straight from the camera.....




We were experimenting with off-camera flash.....

OnOne Suite is now available

As reported earlier on my blog, the Plug-in Suite 5 for Adobe Photoshop from OnOne Software is now availabe. This new suite includes content from NAPP.

Visit OnOne for all the details

Matt on the set

Filming on the new set today

Bits 'n pieces

The class schedule for Photoshop World in Orlando is now live. There are plenty of updated and new courses, many familiar instructors and at least one new face: Zack Arias. Get all the details here.

The conference is March 24–26, 2010 with an Early Bird registration deadline of February 26th.
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I heard about this from Mike McHugh and had fun looking through the photos: it's a collection of wonderful hand-painted signs . Check it out.
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I'll be speaking at a very cool event for up-and-coming wedding photographers. It's the Portfolio + Workshop II at the fabulous Biltmore Hotel in Miami. You'll earn about the business of wedding photography from Kenny Kim, Ray Santana and Jim Garner, hear a little bit about Photoshop from me, and spend the afternoon building up your portfolio with amazing wedding shots (take a look at the examples from the last workshop)

It's January 27th, 2010 and space is limited.
More info here
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For "your daily does of inspiring photography from around the globe", take a look at the black snapper.

True expressions?

Here's some very interesting photos of people hypnotized into thinking the camera is a loved one.

Photos
Behind the scenes video

[via Profoto blog]

Student, not teacher

Today I get to be a student when I sit in on the Down & Dirty Tricks Tour in Chicago taught by Corey Barker. This tour is so popular that I've been asked to teach some dates too, so the first step is watching the day so I can get ready for my first date, December 9th. (Yes, it still says Corey or Scott on the page, but I will be teaching the Jacksonville date)

In the meantime, check out the nice discount that Scott arranged from mpix for his blog readers. Right here

Have a great weekend!

An encore call for help

Last February I was working on an idea for a book and asked people to submit photos that needed some fixing up. Well, the book never materialized but now I'm working on an online class on the same topic of fixing photographic problems. So here's what I'm looking for:

Actually, first I'll tell you what I'm NOT looking for:

old, scanned, water-stained, torn photos - that's more under the area of restoration and that's not the focus of this class.

So here's what I AM looking for:

digital images with photographic issues such as over or underexposed, glare on glasses, red eye, hot spots/glare on faces, great photos with a distracting element (e.g. hydro wires), person partially in the shadows, odd color casts, blown-out/boring gray skies, someone with one eye partially closed, person with sunburn/bad tan lines, etc.


only send a photo if you'd be okay with it appearing in an online class and for it to be downloaded by people who take the class. AND it must be your photo so that you have the right to share it with the rest of us. Also, please include your full name.

If you have such a photo please send it to the email address below (minimum 1024 x 768 please). Please remember that I'm not looking for restoration-type photos (maybe another time)

photoshopfixes @ hotmail.com (remove spaces)

Thanks very much!!
(If you sent me a photo the last time I asked, I still have your photo - thanks!)