Start small, think BIG
Do It Yourself (DIY), How To... and a lot of Photography tips.
By Rui M. Leal
Tip: Don't Loose Your Focus!!
How many times lack of focus and not knowing what to do next will block your mind from doing what you really like?
Today I just wanted to share with you this wonderful video as part of your growing photographer experience. Not that the video has anything to do with photography, on the contrary it has a lot of human reactions to what may not seem too obvious.
Many times, on my assignments, I lack inspiration to create better images than my previous ones. Maybe because I'm always pushing my cyclops eye into the unknown or even worst letting others judge the work I do causing some lost of focus and objectivity.
Sometimes we are so influenced by what others judge on our work that we do not give it credit, maybe we could not accomplish some objectives just by thinking we are older, shorter, thinner or maybe even fatter.
Come on people... put your head up and keep your track and everything will come it's way.
Just as an example of what I'm trying to put through this Tip is on the video bellow where Susan Boyle gives a demonstration of how appearances may not lead into a dreadful end.
Although this video does not have any technical or photographic content I was so impressed with it that I decided to share it with you. Think of it as a positive thinking for your photography breakdowns.
Believe in Yourself!!!!!
Lighting Mods - Workshops PT 2009 SOON-BREVEMENTE
Lighting Mods - Workshops 2009
Will be Available, SOON, the calendar and contents in Portuguese by and for Portuguese ;)
Level 1 - Basic
Level 2 - Intermediate
Level 3 - Advanced Lighting 101
Level 4 - Advanced Lighting 102
For the moment for more information's please contact me directly.
Thank you
Rui M Leal
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Estarão, BREVEMENTE, publicados aqui o calendário dos Workshops para 2009 e os respectivos conteudos disponiveis em Português para Portugueses ;)
Nivel 1 - Iniciado
Nivel 2 - Intermédio
Nivel 3 - Avançado Lighting 101
Nivel 4 - Avançado Lighting 102
De momento para mais informações e inscrições contactem-me directamente.
Rui M Leal
Videos Brussels & Paris
Brussels part 1
Brussels part 2
Paris part 1
Paris part 2
Grupos de Conversação disponiveis no Flickr:
Lighting Mods WS PT
Strobist Portugal
Adiciona-te
Will be Available, SOON, the calendar and contents in Portuguese by and for Portuguese ;)
Level 1 - Basic
Level 2 - Intermediate
Level 3 - Advanced Lighting 101
Level 4 - Advanced Lighting 102
For the moment for more information's please contact me directly.
Thank you
Rui M Leal
--//--
Estarão, BREVEMENTE, publicados aqui o calendário dos Workshops para 2009 e os respectivos conteudos disponiveis em Português para Portugueses ;)
Nivel 1 - Iniciado
Nivel 2 - Intermédio
Nivel 3 - Avançado Lighting 101
Nivel 4 - Avançado Lighting 102
De momento para mais informações e inscrições contactem-me directamente.
Rui M Leal
Videos Brussels & Paris
Brussels part 1
Brussels part 2
Paris part 1
Paris part 2
Grupos de Conversação disponiveis no Flickr:
Lighting Mods WS PT
Strobist Portugal
Adiciona-te
Tip: Why Shoot Raw?
Many of you been asking on what format I'm taking my pictures and the answer is very simple.I use only RAW format, well maybe sometimes Raw+Jpg when I need fast delivery on the images, otherwise I use only RAW format.
It gives me the possibility of having more control over your images without having degradation while save it over and over and over.
I found this video by hadto titled "Generation Loss" that shows exactly what I'm talking about.
Keep reading for video...
You take a normal JPG image from your files and open the last saved jpeg image, then you Save it as a new JPG/Jpeg image with slightly more compression and repeat the process 600 times and this is what you will get.
Watch the video
Generation Loss from hadto on Vimeo.
And you what are you shooting Raw or Jpg?... why so?
FREE?, Something to Think About
This video of Harlan Ellison "Pay the Writer" it applies also to photographers.
How do you feel about this? Did it ever happen to you and what did you do?
What do you feel about the Coldplay contracts signed prior the bad's show?
Take a look at the article about this here.
Share your comments...
How do you feel about this? Did it ever happen to you and what did you do?
What do you feel about the Coldplay contracts signed prior the bad's show?
Take a look at the article about this here.
Share your comments...
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.3 and Camera Raw 5.3 Final

Lightroom 2.3 and Camera Raw 5.3 have graduated from Adobe Labs and are now available as final releases on Adobe.com.(UPDATE: Use this link to download the new language versions of Lightroom ) These updates include camera support for the following models:(Previously provided in the release candidates of these updates)
* Nikon D3X
* Olympus E-30
This update also includes preliminary support for the recently announced Epson R-D1x (and R-D1xG).
The Lightroom 2.3 update includes several bug fixes.
FIXES originally provided in the Lightroom 2.3 Release Candidate
* In the Windows 64-bit version of Lightroom an sFTP upload process could cause Lightroom to crash.
* Slideshows could return to the first image randomly during playback.
* A memory leak could cause Lightroom to crash while attempting to process files with local adjustments.
* Canon EOS 5D Mk II sRAW files could process with artifacts in Lightroom 2.2.
* Lightroom 2.2 could cause disc burning to fail for Windows customers.
FIXES new to the final version of Lightroom 2.3
* Attempting to undo(CTRL-Z) a single step in Lightroom 2.2 on Windows could cause a series of previous actions to be undone.
Lightroom 2.3 now provides language support for the following additional languages:
(UPDATE: It indicates a trial version but it's identical to what we're now shipping from the Adobe.com Store for this new version. Since technically these versions didn't exist before there was no place to put them on the Update page.)
* Chinese (Simplified)
* Chinese (Traditional)
* Dutch
* Italian
* Korean
* Portuguese (Brazilian)
* Spanish
* Swedish
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.3 Direct Download Links (Mac - PC)
Adobe Camera Raw 5.3 Direct Download Links (Mac - PC)
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