by Mike Wong on 01.05.10 in Photography • 6 Comments
With the New Year comes new resolutions. Like many people, I’ve got the perennial favorites on my list like exercising more, eating better, blah blah blah. But one that I’m adding has come at the suggestion of a good friend of mine Rick LePage. Rick runs Photo One Media (the publishers of Photoshop Elements Techniques magazine and website and a sister company of onOne Software) and we’ve been friends for many, many years.
Early in December, Rick suggested we start a photo blog in 2010 with the idea of each of us posting a photo every other day. Rick has the even days. I have the odd days. For me, it’s going to force me to get creative every day – or at least every other day – and shoot. Which will be great because I love shooting but don’t always make the time to do it. I’ve already warned my family that I’ll be asking them to sit for a bunch of portraits.
So on January 1, we officially started our blog. The blog theme is still in progress, but we wanted to get going with posting photos. We have a few things planned to improve upon on the viewing experience but that will come later (hopefully sooner).
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by Mike Wong on 01.05.10 in Contests, Photography • 3 Comments
Happy New Year! I’d like to thank everybody for posting all of your amazing photos to our December Photo Contest. There were over 200 entries making this one of our biggest contests ever and that made it one of the hardest to judge. However difficult, our guest judge Andy Biggs has selected his favorite and because there were so many great shots, I have selected a second place winner as well.
First place prize is Kiboko camera backpack generously donated by Andy’s company Guru Gear. Second prize is a Trek-Tech TrekPod Go generously donated by TrekTech. Here are the winners…
by Mike Wong on 11.16.09 in Photography, onOne Products • 0 Comments
One of the great things about my job at onOne Software is that I get to work with some great photographers. A couple of years ago, I met Andy Marcus and his son Brian Marcus at PhotoPlus Expo. Andy and Brian are the principal photographers and run Fred Marcus Photography and Video in New York and are not only amazing photographers but incredibly nice people as well. Whenever I go to New York, I try to stop by their studio. You can visit their website or their blog to see some of their amazing work.
But before you go to their site, here are a few photos that Andy sent me recently where they used PhotoTools 2 Professional Edition to add an artistic touch to their photos. I think the original photos look great on their own, but it’s fun to see how Andy and Brian have used PhotoTools 2 to enhance them a bit more. Roll your mouse over each image for a before/after preview.
All photos this page by Brian Marcus. Copyright Fred Marcus Photography and Video. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
by Mike Wong on 09.16.09 in Photography, onOne Products • 0 Comments
I’ve just posted 4 new free presets for PhotoTools 2 Professional Edition to the onOne Exchange. Here are examples of two of the effects applied to photos of my kids I took last week as they got ready for their first day of school this year.
DMV Black Soft preset for PhotoTools 2 Professional Edition
Color Creamsickle preset for PhotoTools 2 Professional Edition
by Mike Wong on 09.14.09 in Photography, onOne Products • 6 Comments
It’s great to hear success stories from people using our products and when I heard this one, I really wanted to share it with you. We recently launched a customer survey and as part of it, we asked people to contact us if they had anything additional to say.
Mark Francis, a prosumer photographer, sent us an email with the following story about his experience with Genuine Fractals.
“I wanted to let you know that I first used your product Genuine Fractals after an online review suggested it for upsizing photos. I was hired to photograph a downtown landscape for a wall mural that would be hung in a new bank in town. I needed to have a final print around 7 ft by 14 ft. I used Genuine Fractals and successfully created an 89 inch by 173 inch photo. I am a prosumer photographer that was using a Canon 40D.”
The native resolution of the Canon 40D is 3888 x 2592 pixels which at 200 dpi will yield a 13 x 19 inch print. Going up to 89 x 173 inches is a little over 900 percent! Here’s the photo of the shot Mark took installed at the bank.
Photo courtesy Mark Francis
If you’ve got a Genuine Fractals story you’d like to share. Use the contact form to tell me about it and I’ll feature it here on the blog.
