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The problem with words…

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:00:56 PDT

Recently, I learned that the Isle of Palms (IOP) in South Carolina has made it illegal for photographers to take commercial photography onto the public beaches. The specific phraseology of a recently posted page for IOP states that: “Commercial activity, including photograpy, is prohibited on the Isle of Palms beach. Unless a special exemption is granted by City Council, photographers who take portraits or photographs on the Isle of Palms beach as part of a commercial transaction are in violation of City ordinances.” For now I will ignore the part where they mis-spelled photography as ‘photograpy’ (because it’s probably just … Continue reading →

Lightroom 3 Contest Winner!

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:06:45 PDT

After much deliberation over the fantastic compilation of images for the July contest, I’ve finally had to just make probably one of the toughest judging decisions I’ve had to make thus far in the history of the contest series. However, in light of the theme of the contest (Slick), and the creativity that went into the image itself, I have to give the nod to Stephen Ludgate for his submission: This image has the perfect amount of abstraction, yet also technically is very well thought-out, and the symbolism/timeliness of it to topical events of late is pretty amazing. Congratulations to … Continue reading →

Shooting From the Hip

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:30:38 PDT

While recently taking a reality break and visiting family in my old stomping grounds, I had a chance to tour the Farmer’s Museum in Cooperstown, NY. Viewing museums like these is a lot of fun for both kids and adults – kids because of the activities, and adults because I think as you get older, you can start to appreciate with more awareness just how tough things were (or how easy they are now). In keeping with just going to take it all in, I left all my camera gear at home, save my Motorola Droid, which I wasn’t really … Continue reading →

Creating the color video

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:00:40 PDT

As promised from last weeks post on Youtube, I promised to share the “how to” on the creation of the little teaser video for transitioning from a black and white photo to color. For those that don’t remember, the video is here: To start, I took an image and pulled it into Photoshop. Realizing that I would need to do some virtually identical steps across several images, on the first one, I started the process of creating an action. The action in essence, creates a duplicate layer of the image, converts it to black and white, then repeats the duplication … Continue reading →

Free Copy of Photoshop Lightroom

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:42:14 PDT

Just a short post today as I’d like to remind everyone about the monthly contest series. This month the winner will get a free copy of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3. No strings, no catches, no anything – just enter your best photo in the July Flickr thread (the theme is “Slick” – because Lightroom is just super slick and super cool!) This isn’t a beta, or a trial, or even just an upgrade – this is a full edition of Lightroom 3, and it’s yours for the taking – so check out the giveaway details in the Flickr thread. There’s … Continue reading →

Blogging for Photographers

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:30:34 PDT

With the huge expanding nature of blogging and sharing your photography through an online blog, there’s been a lot of photo-blog projects started, and while many are quite good (and also inspirational), others have been started and it’s pretty obvious from the start that while the photos may be decent – the blogging platform has left a little to be desired. That leaves a question mark on many peoples minds – How do you set up a photo blog? What system should you use? Are there any special features or “must have” elements? Kerry Garrison (of Camera Dojo) and I … Continue reading →

eBooks on the iPad?

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:19:36 PDT

A few people have asked if I had plans to make the eBooks iPad-compatible. I hadn’t considered that before (the iPad prefers the epub format over PDF), but am willing to entertain the option, depending on interest (it’s a little pricier of a proposition, so the cost would have to be justifiable). So – you tell me…do you think it’s worth getting the ISBN, converting to ePUB and distributing through the iBookstore channels as well? Sound off in the weekend poll: The other little nugget is that if you liked the ebook update, you can help me let others know … Continue reading →

Inner Reflection: The What vs The Why

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:30:43 PDT

Hello CanonBloggers! First off, I’d like to thank Jason for the flattering acceptance of my offer to guest blog this post. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not the most eloquent when it comes to introductions, so for those of you who aren’t familiar with myself or PhotographyBB, I’m Dave Seeram, Editor of the PhotographyBB Online Magazine. As I am sure most of you are aware, Jason has been a contributing author for the PhotographyBB Online Magazine since our first year (now into our third). I thought that after all the hard work Jason has done for us … Continue reading →

49 Photo Tips – The Sequel

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:00:32 PDT

About eight months ago, I cobbled together a laundry list of almost 50 photo tips and tricks to help with everything from gear to composition, photoshop, and more. Given the penchant for sharing these things online, I decided to launch it as an eBook – but in the interests of keeping it simple, didn’t add much of anything. It was basically a spreadsheet with a category on the left and the tip or trick on the right. Given the minimal overhead I had put into the design, decided on a bargain basement price – $1.99. Half a cup of coffee, … Continue reading →

Book winners!

jason@canonblogger.com (Jason Anderson) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 04:30:25 PDT

I’ve been a little remiss in doing the comment drawings, so without further delay, here’s the video where I randomly picked the three lucky winners for “Taking Stock” by Rob Sylvan: For the winners – you know who you are, so drop me an email and I’ll get your mailing info over to Scott at Peachpit Press! Thanks to everyone who commented and thanks to Scott for his generous offer to sponsor this spur-of-the-moment giveaway. And for those that haven’t checked out the podcast with Rob Sylvan where we talk about (among other things), his forthcoming book, check it out … Continue reading →