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Volume 12
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Welcome Lisa Ferrara to Our
Team!
Lisa is an
accomplished studio and location photographer and
has been helping us with wedding and corporate
photography assignments. She also
speciliazes in baby, children and family
portraits. Vist her Everlasting Expressions
Photography web site.
Here is an image from her last
wedding assignment
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We
are available for private and small group
training or custom tutoring Need help in
learning and using your digital camera? Organizing
image workflow? Setting up studio lighting
systems? Moving from amateur to pro
Photographer? Stock Photography?
Photoshop techniques? Producing multimedia slide
shows? Photo planning for a trip? Help
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from our Stock
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Image buyer? Stock Agency?
Buyers and stock photo agencies can easily search
and download high and low resolution images at our
new stock photography archive
web site . Our 2,500 plus image
collection includes Travel, Cruising Life,
Lifestyle and "On the Edge" themes. To
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WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY
From our wedding gallery
We have been covering weddings for the last
12 years. It was our entree into
professional photography. Please visit the
wedding photography
section of our web site to see portfolio
samples. 12+ Years Wedding Experience.
Professional. Creative. Funky. Flair. Candid.
Elegant. Relaxed. Fun. Your
memories forever...We LOVE to photograph
weddings! enquiries
New Wedding Images
Lina and Andrew
August 18, 2007
Cindy
and Coby July 14,
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" SLR Digital Camera users need to
know that dust accumulating on the surface of
your digital cameras' sensor can be a big
problem. ...it makes
sense to check your sensors"
... David Smith
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Our Focus
- from your editors
Well, between shooting many weddings
(see photos below), touring (i.e., wine sampling)
the BC Interior, processing many travel
pics and playing with the grandkids, our
Images Newsletter took a back seat over the summer
- but finally here it is! Our
subscribers now include
photographers, travellers and dreamers from
across the globe so editorial content has
been expanded for an international and
a local Vancouver, BC area audience. Anna,
and I continue to post our new travel and new
lifetsyle images at our new archive web site
called Interface
Images for photo buyers and
publishers. With travel plans in the next
month for California and Hawaii already
in place, look foward to more images
later! You must see our new Vancouver
Gay Pride Parade Gallery - lots of
colour and fun!
For Vancouver, BC area photographers
our digital and travel photography class
locations this Fall will include the
Ferry Building Gallery (West Vancouver), Surrey
Art Gallery and Vancouver's Kerrisdale Community
centre locations.(Scheduled classes
at the Kerrisdale Community Centre in Vancouver
are uncertain due to the civic labour
dispute). An Introduction to Digital
Photography 2 evening class at the
Ferry Building Gallery (West
Vancouver) starts on Sept 13 and a NEW class
DP for Novices starts at the Surrey Art Gallery on
Sunday Sept 16. See below for more class
details or contact us for
more information Our
up to date class and lecture schedule is on our
web site here.
See our Photography Tips below
for new and enthusiast photographers
and local and international
photography events. Let us know if you
have an event we will try to post it in our next
issues. ... your
Images editors - David & Anna
Smith
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New Photographer
Tip:
Image
Organization
 Many
digital photography software applications (3rd party or camera
supplied) provide a default location and folder naming
system for your digital image files that you may not want.
If you have trouble finding your photos or are confused
by the often used default numeric date/time
stamp it is time to create an organized "workflow" for
downloading, editing, backing up and sharing your
digital images.
From our Living
- On the Edge, Concepts & Wierd
Archives
I can never remember whether a folder named
05_09_07 is a May 9th or September 5 date so I
never let my software use that folder naming system. If
you have a second hard drive for a PC it is best to put
all images there instead of the common default in My
Pictures since it is on your C drive which is more
vulnerable to virus attacks. (Mac users can
smile!!).
To aid my workflow, I create folders
and subfolders with a logical plain English names and
easy to understand dates. I also batch rename all
images at the same time. When I download my
original images of the Gay Pride Parade to my
computer they will go here: D:/2007
Photos/Gay Pride Parade Aug 5 2007/gppxxx.jpg where
gpp is the project's initials and xxx is a sequential 3
digital number.
During my image editing/processing I will create
subfolders of the Gay Pride Aug 5 2007 folder such as
"proofs" (300 ppi for printing); "tweaks" (editing in
process) and "low res" for emailing or computer slide
shows. I will be sure to make a backup of both
original images and the subfolders to DVD or another
hard drive in case of a computer crash. (Did you
know that 100% of all computer hard drives will fail at
some time in their life?).
With this type of organization, I can decide to
backup or copy all 2007 projects or any subfolders in
one mouse click and find my many image projects quite
easily. You may have your own
system which works well for you but eveyone needs to
organize and customize their "workflow" so it become
"funflow"
Enthusiast Photographer
Tip SLR Sensor
Dust
SLR Digital Camera users need to
know that dust accumulating on the surface of
your digital cameras' sensor can be a big
problem. The electronic charge on sensors simply
attracts dust. To check if dust is present photograph a
grey sky or a plain coloured light surface and enlarge
on your cameras LCD (to see large dust partciles) or in
your digital software with exaggerated contrast to see
all the dust particles.
For a while I simply used an air
brush blower without the brush to blow the
dust away but frequent lens changes in different
environments resulted in accumulation of 100's of
unremovable dust particles. The risk of blowing other
"junk" onto the sensor is too high so I now check for
dust before every important shoot and use Artic
Butterfly's Visible Dust wand (a battery operated
twirling brush creates a static charge when lightly
brushed on the sensor lifts the dust to the brush). It
is about $100, see www.visibledust.com and
worth every penny.
Some pro shooters I know simply do
not remove their lens and have a camera for each
lens. I wonder about the air pressure changes in
the camera body as you zoom in and out your lens. Does
that suck dust into the camera?
There
are a variety of other sensor cleaning products,
visit your local camera store for
demonstrations. Recent SLR digital camera releases
include automatic sensor cleaning systems which is a
good thing. You have made a big equipment
investment, or perhaps going on an expensive vacation -
it makes sense to check your sensors
retouched
product shot original with
exagerted contrast to show sensor dust
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For details, updates
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| DATES IN
2007 |
SUBJECT |
LOCATION/
INFO/ COST |
TO
REGISTER |
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Sept 13/20, 2007
2 Thurs. evening
classes |
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY FOR
BEGINNERS |
Ferry
Building, West Vancouver, BC
2 eve. course $55
7-9:30pm |
West Van City
Hall
604-925-7270
Course No. 415217 |
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Sept. 16, 2007
1
Sunday daytime class |
 DIGITAL
PHOTOGRAPHY FOR NOVICES
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Surrey Art Gallery
Surrey BC. Full Day 9:30am-4pm
$54 |
Surrey Art
Gallery
604-501-5100
Course No.
556041 |
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2007
2 Thurs. evening
classes
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INTERMEDIATE DIGITAL
PHOTOGRAPHY |
Ferry Building, West
Vancouver, BC
2 eve. course $55
7-9:30pm |
West Van City
Hall
604-925-7270
Course No 45226 |
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Oct. 7, 2007
1
Sunday daytime class |
INTRO TO DIGITAL
PHOTOGRAPHY Level 1 |
Surrey Art Gallery
Surrey BC. Full Day 9:30am-4pm
$54 |
Surrey Art
Gallery
604-501-5100
Course
No.556025 |
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Oct 9/10, 2007
2 consecutive classes
Mon &Tues eves. |
INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL
PHOTOGRAPHY |
Kerrisdale
Community Centre, Vancouver, BC
2 eve. course $55
7-9:30pm |
604-257-8100
Course No. 65522.401KR |
| Nov. 18, 2007
1 Sunday daytime
class |
INTERMEDIATE DIGITAL
PHOTOGRAPHY- Level 2 |
Surrey
Art Gallery Surrey BC. Full Day
9:30am-4pm $54 |
Surrey Art
Gallery
604-501-5100
Course No. 556034 |
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Nov 19/26l 2007
2 Mon.
evening classes |
INTERMEDIATE DIGITAL
PHOTOGRAPHY |
Kerrisdale
Community Centre, Vancouver, BC
2 eve. course $55
7-9:30pm |
604-257-8100
Course No. 65522.402KR |
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20/22, 2007
1 Tues and 1 Thurs evening
class
(2 days apart) |
POINT AND
SHOOT DIGITAL CAMERA WORKSHOP FOR
BEGINNERS |
Ferry Building, West
Vancouver, BC
2 eve. course $55
7-9:30pm |
West Van City
Hall
604-925-7270
Course No
415238 |
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TRAVEL TALES
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NEW ADDITIONS
TO OUR PHOTO ARCHIVES:
 Gay Pride
Parade. This event is ideal for
learning to photograph people you don't know. Eveybody
wants to be in a picture! from our Living On
the Edge Collection. To view.
From our lifestyles
collection
 Relationships -
an interracial love story. Join professional models Marcia and Carter
in a photo story about a chance meeting and falling
in love. A lost beautiful woman gets help from a
handsome young man and she is
smitten! To view
From our
lifestyles
collection
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APAC
Seminar. Abbotsford, BC. (Fraser Valley).
Saturday October 20, 2007 www.apac.bc.ca
One
of western Canada's largest photo conferences with
attendance from western Canada and the US Pacific
Northwest. APAC is a full featured photography
conference with excellent speakers,
presentations and photo supplier displays. Great
for beginner, enthusiast and pro photographers
alike! Be there or be square!
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ProShow Workshop - Interactive
Training Seminars
Get ready for an all-day workshop
covering all the most important features in
ProShow Producer and ProShow Gold.
You'll get the inside scoop on
using layers, mastering audio and sharing shows.
Then, get down & dirty with some of the most
powerful creative features in ProShow Producer. By
the end of the workshop, you'll know tons of
valuable techniques that you can use to add
excitement and enhance the production value of
your shows.
The workshops are currently being
held in Chicago, IL, Newark, NJ, Dallas, TX,
and Tampa, FL. For more info click here
Denver, Colorado
September
14-16
Embassy Suites Hotel, Denver
Southeast
Online registration
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