Hi everybody – happy Friday, and here’s what’s up:
My “Simplified Lightoom Image Management” System
Last night, in front of a live audience, I taped a class I’ve been working on for quite some time designed for photographers whose Lightroom organization is either a total mess (very common), or it’s not a mess but it’s too complicated and/or time consuming to keep up. It’s a whole new way of thinking about how to organize your images, both before you get into Lightroom and after, and I can’t wait to share it with you on KelbyOne once it’s finished up (about four weeks or so I imagine). Thanks to everyone who came out and spent the evening with me last night, and thanks for all the wonderful feedback – can’t wait to share this with the world! :) [photo credit: Kim Doty]
Real Estate Photography Photo Critiques (and tips!)
Definitely one of our best episodes of the year, and that’s thanks our guest, California-based Real Estate photographer Thomas Grubba. He was awesome, and although the episode was supposed to just real estate photo critiques (using images submitted by our viewers), there were so many great questions pouring in, that we had to take a bunch of them, and Thomas totally rocked it, giving insights into everything from lighting, color, composition, and gear. Absolutely top notch episode, and you can watch it right above.
Charlotte – I’m there with my seminar on Monday!
Hope you can come out (I already have a couple of hundred photographers signed up, but we’ve got room for one more!). It’s my “Shoot like a Pro tour, Reloaded!” – hope you can come out and join me there on Monday. http://kelbyonelive.com
Gabe’s Night Photography Class Rocks!
I know Brad announced this new nighttime photography class yesterday, but last night one of my audience members had already watched the class and he was absolutely raving about it, and the instructor, my friend Gabriel Biderman. Gabe literally wrote the book on night time photography, and we’re honored to have him teaching with us at KelbyOne. Here’ the link to Gabe’s new class.
Want some cool Lightroom tips?
Well, I’ve been cranking them out over on our sister site: LightroomKillerTips.com – a few of mine from this week:
> Reader Question: Can you create Crop Tool presets? (yes you can! link)
> Quick Develop’s Hidden Little Secret (link)
> How to Clearly See Sensor Dust and Spots on your image (link)
I post there three times a week (monday, Wed and Fri), so if you’re into learning Lightroom, I invite you to pop on by. link
OK, gotta run! Lots of share on Monday about my speaking schedule next week at Photo Plus Expo in New York City. Can’t wait!! :)
Best,
-Scott
I watched the new class on Night Photography. I was really excited to watch it but kind of disappointed. I was hoping to see him actually take some photos and talk about camera settings and how to adjust those camera settings. Something similar to Dave Black’s Lightpainting courses. He goes into such detail and actually does what he’s talking about. Those are awesome. For example, in one of the Night Photography videos, it was all about finding the site, talking about what flashlights were good to use and then nothing about taking the pic. It may just me but these courses are so much more helpful when you can watch the pros actually doing rather that just only talking about it. I think the only time a pic was actually taken on camera was during the fireworks section of the course. Sorry, just my opinion.