Adobe Photoshop CS4 Down and Dirty Photoshop Tricks Seminar

This seminar is in Arlington on August 21st. Apparently its a pretty big deal. Costs 89 dollars if you register early.

http://www.kelbytraininglive.com/

John Keatly and Clay Enos

As it is a rainy Monday out here in Commerce Texas, I did a bit of web surfing to bring two photographers that caught my eye.

John Keatley:






John Keatley Blog: A great resource for looking at what his new shoots are and what goes on behind the scenes.

Clay Enos:

Stockland Martel and The F-Stop Magazine

Im bringing two sources to you today, one a representative company for major advertising photographers and a magazine that brings in depth interviews to major advertising photographers.

Stockland Martel: A major company that sponsors and represents today's leading photographers for the industry and advertising. This website shows a large portion of the best incoming work from a large amount of spectacular photographers. This is a great site to look for inspiration and ideas.







The F-Stop Magazine: A magazine specializing in interviewing today's leading advertisement photographers. Besides just the interviews, they ask specific questions about a certain photograph and show the lighting diagrams that went with the photograph. They also include information about the retouching and how the final image came to be. Its a really great site for learning about not only the photographs you may see on billboards or posters, but the lighting, equipment and process to obtain the final image.

just stand there...

stand there and hold this gray card. light-tests.com

Canon Photography in the Parks Contest

For all you Big Bend Trippers:

Heres a chance to enter all those great photos you took to this contest for a chance to win some great prizes.

http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=1326&fromTips=1&ref=40#/home

Welcome ATPI Conference Attendee's!

On behalf of the Third Floor Photo Society and Texas A&M University at Commerce, we welcome all attendee's and guests to the University for the ATPI Summer Conference!

Herald Banner Photography Contest

The Herald Banner newspaper is hosting a photography contest that would be good for a early entry contest.

"Do you believe a picture is worth a thousand words? Do you think you have an award-winning photograph that you would love to see in print?

Well, here’s the latest news flash. A development is currently underway as area residents are preparing to enter the Hunt County Amateur Photography Contest and Exhibit.

Sponsored by the Herald-Banner and the W. Walworth Harrison Public Library, the contest is only open to amateur photographers and Hunt County residents.

The contest begins July 9 and runs through Aug. 28. Entries will be accepted from June 25 to Aug. 25. Submissions can be mailed to the attention of Photo Contest at the Herald-Banner, 2305 King St., Greenville, TX, 75401, or can be dropped off at the Herald-Banner office during regular business hours, which are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Only printed black and white or color photographs, no smaller than a four by six and no larger than an eight by 10, will be accepted. No e-mail submissions will be accepted.

The contest has two divisions: adult, ages 14 and up; and junior, ages 13 and under.

Each week, beginning July 9 and 10, the Herald-Banner will publish the winning photograph on the front page. The winning photograph from the adult division will be published on Mondays, and the junior division winners will be published on Tuesday.

At the end of the eight weeks, the top 16 photos will be put on display at the W. Walworth Harrison Public Library from Sept. 1— 22. Citizens can come to the library and vote for the People’s Choice Award from Sept. 1 — 22. The overall winners will be announced on Sept. 24, and the photos will remain on display until Sept. 30."

Herald Banner Photography Contest

Taylor James Retouching Studio

I thought I would mix it up a bit by putting up not a photographer, but rather a company. You know all those billboards that have amazing out of this world photos that look better than real life? Taylor James is one of the premiere retouching companies that does that. Great information on the site and make sure to check out the case studies so you can see the before and after.

Taylor James Retouching

Big Bend Trip

Our nature and wildlife class has been back from the Big Bend trip and we are currently putting together all of our photos to present! The photographs from the trip were shot from a variety of cameras including 4x5 film large format cameras, Polaroids, Digital cameras, and even pinhole cameras! Our opening gallery show will be a overall summer show that will include a large amount of the trips best shots! The places that we traveled to on the Big Bend trip included the Big Bend national park, Big Bend state park, Balmorhea , and even visiting the world infamous Chinati Foundation! The photos and schedule below show where we went and what we did!

Sunday June 14th: Leaving day bound westward for Big Bend National Park. A gigantic thunderstorms force Nick to sleep in his car for the first night.

Monday June 15th: First day in Big Bend National Park. Went to visit Castalone, and drove on Old Maverick Road. Dinner was in Terlengua Texas, where we visited and dined at the world infamous Starlight Theatre! While there, we had live music from the band "The Shotgun Party"!

Tuesday June 16th: Visited Grapevine Hill to visit Balanced Rock. Also visited Rio Grande Village where we all caught a much needed shower for $1.50. Day ended by watching a big storm roll in over the canyon on the four hour drive back to camp.

Wednesday June 17th: Visited Davis Mountain State Park where a Black Bear was spotted on the way out by Nick and Catherine. Also visited Terlingua where breakfast was had at the local cafe where we met and shot photos of the owners of the restaurant. Breakfast special at $2.50...cant beat that! Drove 132 miles to go visit the State Park where we found our new camp site where we were surrounded by thousands of fireflies.

Thursday June 18th: Marfa Texas! Thats where we went! This was the infamous day in which we went to the amazing Chinati Foundation where we saw artists like Donald Judd's aluminum boxes, russian schoolhouses, and even the instillation's in downtown Marfa! For lunch, we visited the amazing Foodshark where we at gourmet food out of a simple cargo van! Finally we drove to Valentine where we visited and shot photos of the world renowned Prada Store!

Friday June 19th: Today was Nicks 19th Birthday! We visited Ft. Davis where we shot photos of the local children at the public library! We visited the tiny town of Kent Texas where the only place there is a single gas station and three houses! From there, we visited Balmorhea and had lunch in the rain at Yolanda's enchilada stand, a simple stand where Yolanda made homemade enchilada's, rice, beans, and a iced tea for $6.00! We ended the day by going to the University of Texas McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis where Nick had his birthday party at a "star party" which was a show to display the night skies and give some information about what they do at the McDonald Observatory!

Saturday June 20th: Driving back for 10 hours to come home

Dan Winters and Jeff Minton

Happy late Fourth of July everyone! Hope everyone had a good time out on the lake with friends and family! Here are two new photographers to note about, one of them having quite the peculiar name eh?

Dan Winters






Dan Winters Website

Jeff Minton





Jeff Minton's Website

We will shortly have a post up on our summer adventure to Big Bend including the Chinati Foundation!