5 Quick Things for Friday

Happy Friday everybody! Here’s Five Quickies (stop snickering):

That’s an awesome drum solo from Scott Stahley, the drummer in my band “Big Electric Cat,” taped live with a remote camera mounted beside the drums by Scott Diussa last week during our gig at B.B. Kings Bar & Grill in Orlando (during Photoshop World). Scotty is an killer drummer, so if you’ve got a sec, check out his solo right above (thanks to Scott Diussa for shooting and sharing it).

One from yesterday’s bridal shoot
I shot this yesterday for a project I’m working on . It was taken at a small church in downtown Tampa, and it’s lit with just one flash and a small 27″ soft box. 1/80 of a second (I choose a slower shutter speed so you can see more of the available light in the church), and f/4 (I chose a wider aperture than I would in the studio so the background would be out of focus). You’ll see a lot more from this project, soon! :)

New Wacom Cintiq 13HD 13″ Unboxing Video
Our own Pete Collins got his hands on the coolest new, small-sized Cintiq and he had an unboxing video (like only Pete can). You can watch it right above.

In the video above Pete talks about a “Out of the Box” setup and configuring video that gives you a little bit more of a look at the 13HD. If you want to check that out, click on the link here: http://kel.by/Y05R8y

If you missed “The Grid” This week with our topic “A Current Look at Social Media for Photographers…”
Well, it’s right above. Lots of great interaction and questions from the live viewers, plus we have a couple of giveaways for folks who are watching the rebroadcast, so I hope you’ll check it out.

I am really enjoying curating “Cool Photography Stuff” (my own Flipboard 2.0 Magazine)
If you have the App “Flipboard 2.0” for the iPad  I invite you to check out my free Flipboard magazine called “Cool Photography Stuff” which I curate by including cool photography stuff I find during my daily research. I put everything in there from news to tutorials to beautiful images from photographers all over the world. Best of all, it’s free (yay!). NOTE: There is now an Android version of Flipboard, but they haven’t released the 2.0 update yet which includes the self-curated magazine feature— I’ve heard rumors it’s coming within the next month.

If you have the Flipboard 2.0 App, launch the App and go up in the search field search and search for the magazine by name (It shows “Skelby” as the person it’s from, but that’s me). I update it about every day (including weekends), and often several times a day. Hope you find it helpful, because it sure is fun (Also, thanks to the 4,500 photographers who have already subscribed and get my magazine in their Flipboard field daily now).

Here’s the direct link: http://flip.it/zLnnZ

Now, it’s Pro Hockey Photography Workshop Time!
We kick off our workshop tonight, so you’ll be seeing images from the workshop over on my Facebook, Twitter and G+ feeds (hope you’ll follow me there). Looking forward to seeing everybody tonight, and we’ll see you on the ice!

Cheers everybody, and here’s wishing you your best weekend this year so far! :)

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  1. A great drum solo!! If you enjoyed that, check out Billy Kilson’s solo with Chris Botti on you tube. The first time I have ever been to a concert where the drum solo received a 5 minute standing ovation.

  2. Hey Scott,
    Your Customer Service folks ROCK! I just added The Photo Safari to my Vegas Photoshop World. She could not have been more kind or helpful. I wish I remembered the girl’s name who helped me so you would know.
    See ya in about 4 months!
    Mike

  3. Awesome drum solo! Is that the first time he’s done that at a PSW party? Great unboxing video from Pete, but after seeing that knife he whipped out to cut the box tape, it’s obvious that no one messes with him!
    Thanks so much for the Flipboard magazine. I find myself going through it a lot. Tons of great info and inspiration there.
    Have fun at the hockey seminar. Keep those lens filters on! :-)
    –John

  4. Hey Scott, just wanted to mention that the Flipboard magazine is available on the iphone app as well. That should tide me over until the 2.0 release for Android. Really enjoying it by the way.

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