Thursday News Fiesta
First, I want to talk about yesterday’s Guest Blog post from Rick Sammon. Rick demonstrated once again what I love about the Guest Blog concept, which is that everyone brings their own ideas, their own take on things, and they create their own topic. It’s “their day” to share what they want to share, and although what Rick shared was about photography, it went way beyond that, and touched a lot of people. Thank you Rick, for reminding us about the most important things in life. Now, onto the news:
- MPIX.com is doing a series of full page print ads featuring a number of different photographers who use MPIX, where they share their favorite MPIX products. Right now they’re running the ad you see above, and ever since the first ad hit, I’ve been getting loads of emails every day asking me about the laptop stand/ball head tripod combo seen with me in the ad. It’s actually a set-up I learned about from Joe McNally, and I talked about it last year here on the blog. It’s two pieces: (1) The Manfrotto 131DD Tripod Accessory Arm for Four Heads (link), and (2) The Gitzo G-065 Monitor Platform (link). You mount these on any tripod, but the one you see it mounted on her is a Gitzo Mountaineer tripod.
- You might remember me mentioning here on the week before Photoshop World that we open the Expo floor to the public for two days during the conference. I learned today that in Boston, the Expo Floor at Photoshop World had the most number attendees of any Expo we’ve done yet (including the one in Vegas), and in this economy, that is really welcome news. Thanks to everyone who turned out to visit our exhibitors and take in some of the Photoshop World fun!
- (Lame segue alert!) Speaking of Joe McNally (lame segue alert), he posted a hilarious video on his blog earlier this week, and if you’ve got 60-seconds, it’ll crack you up. Scroll down the page until you see the video clip. Here’s the link.
- Photoshop Hall of Famer Jack Davis was at “The Estate” in Boston and captured a bunch of cool shots of my band, “Big Electric Cat,” during our live set using nothing but his iPhone. He used the iPhone app: TimeLapse to take the shots, then he used “PhotoGene and CameraKit to tweak em.” (NOTE: Jack is currently working on making his own iPhone app to optimize and enhance images taken with the iPhone’s built in camera. More on this when Jack gets near the launch). Anyway, Jack uploaded the images to a page where you can check them out (here’s the link).
- Later today the third installment in our three-part series on using Wireless Flash will go live on D-Town TV (The weekly show for Nikon DSLR users). Here’s the link.
- Lastly, one of my readers turned me on to this site, called “One Photo a Day.” You can pretty much guess what it’s about, but it’s definitely worth checking out. Here’s the link.
That’s it for today folks. Have a kick-butt Thursday and we’ll see you back here tomorrow.