One of the would-be idols rendered a pale shadow of Pete Townsend’s Baba O’Reilly this evening. Which sent me back to the original, full strength. And then Won’t Get Fooled Again. Sometimes, I go back to the music that shaped me, and this was an essential part of the soundtrack for me.
Other authors have described this album and its essential songs, and you can find their words with a minimum of searching. I’ll just tell you to listen, loudly.
Via PopUrls.com, 60 Advanced Photoshop Tutorials – Top Web Resources. I love Photoshop tutorials. The more I learn about Photoshop the more I love it.
How I would love to have the chance to follow these tips from This French Life and spend more time in museums in Paris, or just more time in Paris, or even more time to just think about more time in Paris.
VISITING Paris museums and monuments are the things you most want to do in the capital. However, they can often be crowded, overwhelming, and expensive. Here are 10 insider tips, from Richard Nahem, that will make your visit to places such as the Louvre and the Palais de Tokio smooth, efficient, and sometimes cheaper.
It’s shortly before the post-lunch session on day 3 of the conference. I have learned a lot, have a book of workshop handouts as bigg as a phone book, and there’s much more to come. Among the important things I’ve learned here: shoot a lot; shoot RAW if possible, thought JPEG isn’t filthy awful rotten if that’s all you have; there are several subtle techniques for sharpening detail and correcting exposure; there several others for processing to black and white; carry your camera all the time (note that I haven’t shot a single frame here, though I have experimented on several from Grand Canyon and Avignon, which I may upload tonight rather than attend evening sessions); print print print; and much more.
My principal conclusion from this is to think like an artist as much as possible rather than thinking like a technician, and to foster that I need to practice technically with the camera rather than at the computer. By that I mean I need to use the computer for evaluating the work rather than endless noodling with Photoshop.
To that end, I’m trying to spend most of my remaining time here listening to photographers as they discuss their work rather than cramming in more adjustment layer tips that are recorded in the handout tome. This session is by Rick Sammon.