Tutorial - Placing an EPS File

for Joan McGrady-Beach

Joan was my high school art teacher. I totally credit her with the way that I see the world today. She was, and is, a wonderful teacher. Recently we have reconnected and it is one of the greatest pleasures in my life to be able to show her a few things in Photoshop. its important to remember that when I was in high school in 1978 it was a FULL DECADE before Illustrator 88 was even released and Illustrator was the first of app of the Adobe family. But it has been great to be able to do something for her. This video shows how to place an EPS file and has some pointers about scaling images and colorizing them.

http://www.clickenergi.com/mogo/HDSLR-Opener.mov.zip

Changing DNS entries is hard.

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Attempting to consolidate a few websites I broke a bunch of links... I'll get them fixed in the next few days. Till then, some of the tutorials are broke... Sorry.

Adolf Hitler misses Paula.

Snow is cold.

Snow in the South from Felipe Rojas on Vimeo.

I'm not a big fan of the mountains and the snow, for one primary reason... I don't like being cold. However, thats not to say a snow covered landscape can't be beautiful. I really enjoyed this piece by Felipe Rojas on Vimeo this morning. Maybe you will to. I'm assuming that because it was posted on planet5D.com that it was shot on the Canon 5D or 7D. Doesn't matter, its beautiful.

Joshua Tree is beautiful.

We had a blast at the TWiP Weekend Workshop in Joshua Tree this weekend.  Just got home about an hour ago and finished uploading the video we cut Saturday Night and showed it to the rest of the gang on Sunday AM.

Frederick says, "If you don't shoot it, it never happened." Good advice to live by.

If you are wondering, the video is shot with a Canon 7D with a 70-200 2.8 and a Singh-Ray Vari ND on sticks and a 16-35 on a Glidecam 4000HD. Special thanks to Neil Looker for the loan of the Glidecam. It works quite well with the small light-wieght HDSLRs. The Vari ND really allows you to control the DOF even on a bright sunny day. By opening the aperture wide open you can minimize your DOF but you still have to control the amount of light hitting the sensor. In traditional photography you can just make your exposure shorter but in video you have to keep your exposure at approximately double your frame right.

HOWEVER... I followed a bit of advice I got listening to Shane Hurlbut on Red Centre. He shoots 30FPS at 1/40. Although I didn't shoot 30FPS I did try to slow the shutter down the 1/40 and I have to say, I'm pretty pleased with the results.

Anyway, I had a great time although right now... I'm EXHAUSTED.

Sitting on the ground doing long lens work on the 7D with the essential Zacuto Z-Finder.