Monday
Jan
2012
30

A Fresh New Look Coming For My Blog

by Scott Kelby  |  60 Comments

If you’re thinking the ol’ blog here is ready for a fresh coat of paint, I’m with ya on that one, and I’m happy to announce that sometime this week we’re going to flip-the-switch on a new redesigned look and functionality for this blog.

It starts with a logo design (see above) created by my good friend, and Kelby Media Group Creative Director Felix Nelson, who combined my photography with book authoring into one simple logo that covers both.

After that, my in-house Web designer Fred Maya customized a new WordPress template for me, which gives me the ability to post larger sized photos with my posts (which means less having to click to see a larger version), plus a nice large sized-gallery at the top of the blog and a update of my portfolio, too (thanks to RC Concepcion for that piece of the puzzle).

There’s lots of functionality tweaks for me, since we pretty much started over from scratch with this one, but one that I hope you all will like is a new, much-updated and improved Commenting feature (the one I’ve been using is pretty darn old and outdated). The new look isn’t radically different from the existing one, but it definitely has some advantages for me, and hopefully for you, too!

Anyway, look for the new look this week, and my thanks to Felix for the logo, and to Fred who has been working on this update for a while and has tweaked it more times than any of us can count (since I’ve had a hard time making up my mind).

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Monday
Jan
2012
30

I’m so honored to have received the ASP International Award

by Scott Kelby  |  44 Comments

A heartfelt thank you to the American Society of Photographers (http://www.asofp.com/) for presenting me with their ASP International Award (below). Here’s a little bit about the award from the ASP:

“Our Society presents this award annually to a firm or person that we feel has contributed in a special or significant way to the ideals of Professional Photography as an art and a science.”

It’s a tremendous honor to receive this award, particularly given the previous recipients, including George Hurrell, Dr. Edwin Land (inventor of the Polaroid), Thomas Knoll, Jay Stock, Graham Nash, and Robert Farber among others.

I would like to thank all the talented and gifted photographers who?ve taught me so much over the years: Joe McNally, Moose Peterson, Vincent Versace, Bill Fortney, David Ziser, Jim DiVitale, Helene Glassman, Anne Cahill, Kevin Ames, Frank Doorhof, Jack Reznicki and Jay Maisel. I’m greatly indebted to these amazing photographers and I share this award with them.

I found a wonderful place in my office to keep this beautiful award, and each time I look at it I’ll be reminded of the recipients who came before me and how truly humbled and grateful I am to the American Society of Photographers to have presented me with this prestigious award.

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Friday
Jan
2012
27

Why I Think Lightroom 4 is Going To Sell Like Crazy

by Scott Kelby  |  156 Comments

I’ve been working with Lightroom 4 Public Beta quite a bit (OK, a bunch), and I can tell you exactly why I think this there is going to be a tidal wave of people upgrading to Lightroom 4 when it comes out, and it’s the most basic reason of all: Your photos look better processed in Lightroom 4. Period.

At the end of the day, that’s what we all want. We just want our photos to look better, and if somebody comes up with something that can make our photos look significantly better, we’re going to be all over it. Lightroom 4 does exactly that.

The improvements in Lightroom’s Development module are so significant, and so much better than what we’ve ever had before, that I think you’ll be hard-pressed to find most anyone still using Lightroom 3 in just a few months from now. In fact, if they didn’t add another feature, it would still be worth the upgrade just to get better looking images. If you haven’t downloaded the beta, here’s the link—see for yourself. :)

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Friday
Jan
2012
27

This is a Workshop I Would Love to Attend!

by Scott Kelby  |  7 Comments

I just learned about this week long workshop, taught by night photography expert, Gabe Biderman and Rocky Mountain School of Photography instructor and landscape photographer Tim Cooper, and once I read about what they’re doing, I was dying to go!!!!

You spend your days in the classroom with Gabe and Tim learning about the camera techniques and post processing for night photography (along with image reviews), and then at night you’re on location in some amazing locales in an intense 6-day total immersion into night photography. What I really loved about this (beside the instructors) is the variety of nighttime shooting opportunities—from shooting Vegas at night to the surreal nightscapes of the Valley of Fire and Zion National Park.

What they’re teaching
They’re going to be teaching everything from mastering star trails to pro techniques for capturing celestial skies, and they’re going to work ya hard but you’re going to learn more in that 6-days than you can imagine. Plus, they just announced that one of their nights in Vegas will be spent in the famous NEON BONEYARD!!! (this collection of over 150 neon signs from the 30?s-90?s will be available to workshop students at night for a 3 hour shoot!! They will be teaching workshop participants how to light paint and breath life back into those nostalgic old signs that have never been accessible to shoot at night before!)

While I haven’t gotten to meet Tim in person yet, Gabe is a personal friend of mine and an incredibly talented fine art photographer (I’ve called Gabe many times over the years for advice and gear recommendations, plus he’s led my New York City World Wide Photo Walks), and I wish I could be there with them—-it just sounds like an amazing experience, (and it’s going to be for some very lucky folks).

Here’s the link with all the details, but check it out soon because it’s coming up March 4th – 9th, so if you can, make plans to join them. If you go, make sure you share some of the photos you got during the workshop with me when you get back, because my favorite shot from the workshop is going to win a full conference pass to the Photoshop World Conference & Expo coming up in DC (or Vegas—their choice!).

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Thursday
Jan
2012
26

Light It Magazine, Issue 5 Now Available

by Brad Moore  |  23 Comments

Issue 5 of Light It Magazine is now available! Brad Moore here to tell you a little about it :)

This issue features tips from Jim Schmelzer on the importance of subtractive lighting:

Photo Recipes from Scott Kelby:

My personal favorite, the Gear Watch section ;) :

Plus Tom Bol on sports portraiture, Erik Valind on high-speed sync with small flash, Kevin Ames on reflectance, Jason Groupp on what to do with stage lighting during wedding receptions, an interview with Frank Doorhof, sixty seconds with stock photographer Nicole S. Young, and work from featured photographers Sean Arbabi and Jennifer Wu.

If you don’t already have the free Light It Magazine app, download it from the iTunes store and grab the first issue for free. Each issue after that is only $2.99, a hard deal to beat for valuable info from the people listed above!

And, if you’re an Android user who’s been asking for Light It on your platform, it’s time to rejoice! We’ve started development on this and will be keeping you posted as things progress.

(Also, Scott did a little write-up on the issue over on Google+ if you’d like get his take)

related: iPad, Light It magazine, Lighting 23
Thursday
Jan
2012
26

It’s Free Stuff Thursday!

by Brad Moore  |  51 Comments

Hey everyone, Brad Moore here with another edition of Free Stuff Thursday!

Light It. Shoot It. Retouch It. Live!
Scott Kelby is bringing his Light It. Shoot It. Retouch It. Live Tour to Austin on Monday, January 30, so leave a comment for your chance to win a free ticket! Also, keep an eye out for new dates in Atlanta and Tampa to be added soon!

Photo Pro Expo
After Austin, Scott is heading to Cincinnati to speak at the Photo Pro Expo on Sunday, February 5. Make sure you come see Scott speak alongside other instructors like Jerry Ghionis, Vincent LaForet, Lindsey Adler, Joel Grimes, Skip Cohen and more!

The expo takes place February 3, 4, & 5, 2012 with 16 Speakers, 25 hours of programs, and 4 fun Parties. The convention is taking place near downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. There is also a trade show with 90 full booths cruising to an expected attendance of nearly 800 people!

The Expo trade show will also be hosting a two-day, 4-Bay Fantasy Model Shoot-Out sponsored by Westcott. Add to that a fully juried photographic print competition, over $15,000 in prizes and awards, Flash Clinic & Help Desk, Coach?s Corner Image Review, and a Super Bowl Tailgate party Sunday night.

The cost of PhotoPro Expo 2012 is only $139 for readers of Scott?s blog ? just use Promo Code PPESK12, will reduce your cost to only $139 for all three days! It expires next week so act now to reserve your space. AND… Leave a comment for your chance to win a free pass to the show!

KelbyTraining.com
The latest classes at KelbyTraining.com are from none other than Joel Grimes! Check out the two-part class Creative Compositing where Joel shows you how do do everything from the lighting and shooting of photos for compositing, to showing you how to put everything together in Photoshop.

Kelby Training Book & DVD Blowout
This is the last week to save up to 70% off during the January Book & DVD Blowout at KelbyTraining.com. Great deals on CS5, LR3 and photography books and DVDs at KelbyTraining.com

We’re giving away a copy of Scott & Matt’s new Photoshop Elements 10 Book. If you or someone you know uses Elements 10, this is a killer title because it shows you how to create amazing images in Elements using the settings, tips and tricks the pros use.  Enter the random drawing to win a copy by leaving a comment about the book. We’ll draw next Wednesday.

Last Week’s Winners
Tim Rogan and Karen Choi are the lucky winners of Frank Doorhof’s Live In Boston Workshop DVD, and Laurie Excell’s Wildlife Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots goes to Jan Dawson and Bob… Well, I don’t know Bob’s last name, but I have his email address, so that will suffice :)

That’s it for this week. Make sure you leave a comment for your chance to win a ticket to Scott Kelby’s seminar in Austin on Monday or Photo Pro Expo in Cincinnati!

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