Mike Wong is the VP of Marketing at onOne Software, located in Portland, Oregon.
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Just in case you haven't already heard - there will be a special room set aside for several vendors at Photoshop World to teach product specific classes. We'll be there teaching how to use Mask Pro, PhotoTools and PhotoFrame on Friday September 5th from 4:00 pm to 4:45 pm and on Saturday September 6th from 11:00 am to 11:45 am.
Please keep an eye out for the classroom and stop by if you can!
Lighting, Metering, Color Calibration. Three pretty key elements that will make you a better photographer for sure - and if you live in the Houston area, you can get a free day of informal learning on these three topics from our friends over at the Houston Camera Exchange and Prairiefire Productions.
The free class is this Saturday, August 30 starting at 9:00 am. Here's a quick rundown of what will be covered.
9:00 - 11:00 am - Basic Studio Lighting
11:00 - 11:30 am - Off camera flash for indoor portraits
12:00 - 1:30 pm - Outdoor lighting / Working with difficult lighting
1:30 - 2:30 - Using the ColorMunki for color calibration
You can find the Houston Camera Exchange at:
Bliss Studio - you've seen several of their images in many of our onOne Software demos - has created a new set of workshops aimed at not only teaching you how to be a better studio photographer and Photoshop user, but also teaching you how to actually implement the techniques you learn.
Check out their new site at http://www.blissworkshops.com/
Calling all onOne Software users! Voting is now open for Studio Photography's annual Readers' Choice Awards. Voting for your favorite onOne Software plug-in couldn't be easier as the very first question in the survey is which Photoshop Plug-In is your favorite. Personally, I'm torn...PhotoTools Professional Edition or FocalPoint? Don't forget Mask Pro, Genuine Fractals or PhotoTune!
Whatever you pick, I'm going to shamelessly ask you to head on over and take the survey and submit your favorite onOne Software plugin for Photoshop. It will literally take you 30 seconds to enter the first answer and the voting is anonymous.
I'm often asked how big you can resize a photo with Genuine Fractals and I've always answered that with Genuine Fractals, you can resize a photo to pretty much anything you want or need. So in case anybody didn't believe me, here's a great example.
Professional photographer Pete Carr posted on his Vanilla Days blog a story about a HDR photo that he shot of the Liverpool skyline with an 8MP DSLR that he ultimate resized to 42 feet long by 9 feet tall. 42 feet!
Check out the article and read how Pete used Photoshop, Lightroom, Photomatix and Genuine Fractals to create this massive panorama.
I'm honored to announce that we have added two new photographers to the onOne Pro Corner. Paul Callagnhan, one of Ireland's leading wedding photographers and Japanese commercial photographer Munemasa Kobayashi have recently joined our pro corner.
We are honored to have them use our Photoshop plugins and encourage you to visit their pro corner pages and see examples of their work.
Copyright Paul Callaghan
Copyright Munemasa Kobayashi
A couple of weeks ago, I got an email from somebody I had never met before. His name is Tom and he found me through some of our products and our new onOne Exchange site. He gave me some good feedback on the new blog site and looking objectively, would have to agree that he was right and subsequently made those changes. Tom went on to share with me a little bit about himself and his passion for photography and then shared with me that he has MS which, as you might suspect, is a pretty challenging condition in and of itself, but can make photography a little harder as well.
Tom also told me about how he had contacted Joe McNally to see if he would help him with a photo project he was trying to complete. You can read about that project at Joe's blog. It's a must read for several reasons.
Personally, I've taken 2 things away after reading Joe's blog entry.
1. There's always something more you can learn about photography. Seeing how Joe and his team approached this project shows what a professional Joe really is. It also shows what a quality individual Joe is as well as his team. Joe gets nothing out of this shoot other than the satisfaction of helping someone out who deserved some help. Kudos to Joe.
2. The other thing I took from this is how lucky I am. Since I read Tom's story on Joe's blog a week ago, I've reminded myself everyday that the little things that I have to deal with every day, are indeed little compared to what Tom has to deal with. Tom's story of dealing with MS and being a fighter are an inspiration to me and I've stopped myself several times over the past week alone to stop and appreciate that I'm able to do things with my son and daughter without the challenges Tom faces and to appreciate those moments even more.
Go read that blog entry now if you haven't already.
Tom is setting up a blog to help inspire people (with or without MS) to overcome challenges in Photography. I'll be sure to let everybody I know about it as soon as it's up and running as Tom has already inspired me and it has nothing to do with photography.
Keep up the fight Tom.
