We’ve got another great webinar planned in our onOne University Pro Webinar Series. This month, our good friend Vincent Versace will be in our Portland, Oregon office to present Bokeh: The Science of Focus and the Art of Blur. Here is a brief description of what you can expect.
A day shooting with Vincent Versace
Last week, Vincent Versace was up in Portland visiting us here at onOne Software so we took him out to the Oregon Coast to see what we could photograph. We ended up with some great shooting weather – about 50 degrees and mostly cloudy and most importantly, no rain!
Along for the shoot were senior product manager Dan Harlacher, Brian Kraft (vp sales), Vincent and me. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to spend a day shooting with Vincent, now you can see. Brian Kraft shot a little video along the way and put it up on Vimeo. I thought it would be fun to share here.
Just a warning though, this may be a side of Vincent many of you have not seen before. He was very heavily under the influence of Gummy Bears early in the day. Evidence of why you should keep them out of the reach of your kids. 
New Training DVDs from Vincent Versace
A while back, I was down in Los Angeles and hung out with Vincent Versace for a few hours. As usual, he showed me a couple of cool things in Photoshop, one of which was a new technique he was working on to bring details back into an image – essentially taking something that was blurry and bringing it back into focus. It was pretty cool.
Well, now he’s got it on a training DVD and I thought I would share the news with all of you here.
Vincent’s DVD that teaches this technique is called The Lazarus Effect: Raising the Dead Pixel and you can find out more about it at Vincent’s website at AcmeEducational.com.
He’s also got a DVD update to his book Welcome to Oz called Return to Oz – From Oz to Kansas 2.0 and it’s all about Black and White conversions.
Welcome to Oz is one of my favorite Photoshop books and would recommend it to anybody who wants to learn more about Photoshop. I’m looking forward to seeing the Return to Oz materials especially since Vincent is one of the best at the black and white conversion.
Focus on Nature Iceland Workshop
Einar Erlendsson who runs the Focus on Nature Workshops in Iceland recently posted an interview with Vincent Versace on his teaching style and what he’s looking forward to the most in the next workshop that they do together. There are two photographs posted along with the interview that are, in my humble opinion, amazing. The contrast in the clouds and smoke are incredible. I don’t think anyone does this better than Vincent. Take a look for yourself.
Why Vincent Versace Uses Genuine Fractals 6
I recently sat down with Vincent Versace at his studio near Hollywood and he was gracious enough to share with us some of the reasons that he has used Genuine Fractals on 100% of the images that Vincent has created for over the past 10 years. But enough of me talking about this. Just watch the video below!
