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Cory Photography with Tom and Pat Cory |
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Barred Owl, 2007 |
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Newsletter, July 2007 |
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Cory Photography Newsletter 26 July 5, 2007
In this edition you will find: Scott Kelby Website Adobe Lightroom Version 1.1 Announced Music Copyright Considerations Help for World Travelers More about Google Earth Larry Perry Newsletter
Hello!
We have been enjoying watching the birds at our bird feeders. For those of you (like us) who live where the weather is still weird, it's really important to put out bird seed, suet and water for the birds. We have also been fortunate to have had a barred owl and her baby living in our woods. Most nights and mornings we have seen them fly by and land in a tree near our house. One morning we watched as the mother feed her baby what we think was the remains of a squirrel.
We also had a piliated woodpecker that was coming to peck on the glass on one of our doors. While I would have loved to have tried to photograph the woodpecker, I decided it was better to follow the advice I often give folks and just enjoy this special experience. Had I rushed to get my camera I'd have missed it entirely. Better a great memory than a bad (or missed) photograph. We've finally outfoxed the raccoon that was getting into the permanent feeder at night with a little axel grease on the pole. We're still working on what to do about the squirrels.
We will soon be headed for Newfoundland. That has become one of our favorite locations. We still have a few slots left for the Oregon Coast and Italy.
We're really excited about our schedule for 2008. See below for links to the details about our destinations.
Enjoy your summer photography! Remember that when you take a camera from a nice cool air conditioned car out into a muggy summer day, your lens will fog up. You may want to switch off the AC before your reach your destination to let your camera warm up a bit.
Best, Tom and Pat
Scott Kelby Website
I am a Scott Kelby fan. Scott is now the number one author of computer related books in the world. I have several of his books and recently went to Atlanta to attend his Lightroom seminar--along with 500 other fans--which was totally enjoyable. I find his approach, which is how to actually use Adobe software to accomplish something, so much more helpful than many authors who simply tell you blow by boring blow what all the options do. He has a wonderful sense of humor and does a great job making learning about the Adobe products fun both in his books and seminars --and he's a marketing genius.
His website is a wealth of information. He has a blog which he updates most days where he includes all sort of tips. He is also the president of NAPP, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals which I recently joined and am also finding useful. If you get a chance I recommend going out to Scottkelby.com and see what you think.
Adobe Lightroom Version 1.1 Announced
Lightroom is a new Adobe Product that perhaps a number of you tried out while it was in Beta test. The purpose is not to replace regular Photoshop or Elements but rather to address and speed up your digital workflow. It consists of a method of keeping track of your images as well as providing some basic editing---some automatically as your images are loaded onto your computer. Elements users will see a lot of similarities in the cataloging approach of Lightroom. One of the aspects that I particularly like is the non-destructive editing. The changes you make are not actually applied to your image until you export it from Lightroom either to Photoshop to make additional modifications or to another program on your computer. Because of this you can experiment with different combinations of changes without taking up much additional space on your disk and you can save your changes, exit Lightroom, come back later and go back to a previous state. If you have several images that need the same steps to modify them you can make the changes to one image, save your changes and quickly apply them to all the images with the same problem.
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