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Welcome
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Note: Our new
office telephone no. is 604-926-2006
Dancer in
Peru, Lima
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We are...
Travel, editorial, portrait, wedding,
corporate and stock photographers
Digital & Travel
Photography Speakers & Lecturers
Travel
Writers
services
stock
photos
from our Stock
Archives
Keeping Fit on a Cruise
Ship
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. 10+ Years Wedding Experience.
Professional. Creative. Funky. Flair. Candid.
Elegant. Relaxed. Fun. Your
memories forever...We LOVE to photograph
weddings! enquiries
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Interface or David Smith unless otherwise
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Need a Guest
Speaker? Our talks on digital and
travel photography include multimedia presentations that
inform, entertain and inspire all audiences. Private,
travel industry, camera club and association enquiries
welcome. Contact us
PRIVATE TUTORING AND ASSISTANCE WITH
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
We
are available for private and small group training
or custom tutoring sessions at your location, at our
Gastown, downtown Vancouver studio or at our
digital darkroom studio in West Vancouver, BC.
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 is at hand!!
Contact
David's Quote of the
Day...
"Light reflects off your subject into the
front of the lens and a positive attitude behind the
lens reflects back on to your subject for a perfect
photograph" ... David Smith www.imagebyinterface.com
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More of Our Image Galleries
Totem Pole Inspiration...from our
Ideas
& Concepts Gallery
Sandcastles in Parksville, BC
...from our Action
Gallery
Hair fashion and more...from our
Glamour
Gallery
Pianist Robert Silverman &
friends ...from our Editorial
Gallery
ms Amsterdam at Hilo, Hawaii
from our Cruising
Life Gallery
Orphanages Appeal
 CRF is helping orphanages in
Afghanistan and Tamil Nadu, India -
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Our Focus - from your
editors
Our subscribers now include
photographers, clients, agencies, 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 images (5,000 to
go!!!) at our new archive web site called Interface
Images for photo buyers and
publishers. With travel scheduled for the Caribbean,
New York City, Mexico, the Greek Islands,
Turkey, Egypt, Israel and Italy already in place, look
foward to more images later!. Our greetings to the returning passengers
and crew of the cruise ships Prinsendam and
Maasdam, we enjoyed our South American adventures
with you in January and southern Caribbean Islands
cruise in April. We will be posting images from
these trips shortly and announce details in our
next Images newsletter.
Note: We will be changing our main
office phone and fax number to 604-926-2006
effective immediately, please make a note of it. Our cell
numbers will be the same (Dave: 604-818-7662;
Anna 604-833-9678).
We have expanded
our digital and travel photography
classes and lectures
. For Vancouver, BC area
photographers we have expanded our digital
and travel photography class locations this
Spring to include the Parkgate Community
Centre (North Vancouver) and the Kerrisdale
Community Centre (Vancouver) as well as our
regular locations at the Ferry Building
Gallery (West Vancouver) and Surrey Art Gallery
locations.
See our Photography Tips 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. Our new Travel Tales
section takes you to the Greek islands and
Turkey with a photo focus and browse this
newsletter to see a sampling of our recent
works. Works? How can this be work? - this
is too fun! ... your Images
editors - David & Anna Smith
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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. Click here.
Our 2,000 plus image collection includes Travel,
Cruising Life, Lifestyle and "On the Edge" themes.
Our collection is quickly expanding as a result of
recent trips to Mexico, Central and South America.
Our archives are search, lightbox and RSS
photofeed enabled. Our images have recently
been published in Canada, USA, Europe, Mexico and
Australia. Inquiries for specific
images and local and international assignment
photography are welcome. To subscribe
to our "Images NOW!"
newsletter for photo buyers and
agencies click here.
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 New Photographer
Tip: Warning - Don't resave
and resave your JPG files
Avoid saving and resaving jpg
files. Each time a jpg file is changed and saved it
is compressed and you will loss image quality. The
preferred option is to save your files as TIF files
(or PSD files using Adobe Photoshop software) as they
are not compressed and you will retain your image
quality. To select your file formats in your image
editing software select File/Save as/dropdown menu. If
necessary use the jpg format as final file save
for smaller files. From our wedding
gallery
Enthusiast
Photographer Tip
Reasons to
Shoot RAW files Raw files have not had while balance set. This
allows one to set any colour temperature and white
balance one wishes after the fact with no image
degradation. File linearization and colour filter array
(Bayer) conversion is done on a computer with a fast and
powerful microprocessor versus in the camera. The raw
file is tagged with contrast and saturation information
as set in the camera by the user, but the actual image
data has not been changed. The user is free to set these
based on a per-image evaluation rather than use one or
two generalized settings for all images taken.
Possibly the biggest advantage of
shooting raw is that one has a 16 bit image
(post raw conversion) to work with. This means that
the file has 65,536 levels to work with. This is
opposed to a JPG file's 8 bit space with just 256
brightness levels available. This is important when
editing an image, particularly if one is trying to
open up shadows or alter brightness in any significant
way.
Reasons to Shoot JPG.
Files are
smaller and therefore more of them fit on a card. For
many applications image quality is more than sufficient
(family snapshots, news images). Small files are more
easily transmitted wirelessly and online. This is
important to newspaper photographers. Many photographers
don't have the time or inclination to post-process their
files. Many cameras (especially digicams) can not shoot
quickly when working in raw mode. Some lower-end models
can't record raw files at all.
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NEW Photo Class
Locations in North Vancouver and Vancouver Announced:
At North Vancouver's
Parkgate Community
Centre our 2-evening classes will be
Introductory (Apr 17/24) and
Intermediate (May 1/8)
Digital Photography with a full
day and fun Travel Photography
-Tips and Techniques class on May 5. To
register call 604-983-6350 .
At
Vancouver's Kerrisdale Community
Centre our
2-evening classes will be
Introductory (Apr 16/23) and
Intermediate (Apr 30/May 7)
Digital Photography. To register
call 604-257-8100 after
Mar. 26
Class Schedule
Updates.
At the Ferry
Building Gallery in West Vancouver,
a
nother
Beginners (Apr 19/26),
Intermediate (May 2/9) and Travel
(May 3/10) series there will be capped with a
Workshop/Field Trip on June 14/21 to
end the Spring season on a timely basis. To register
call 604-925-7270
At the Surrey Art Gallery
our Sunday daytime classes are: Intro/Level 1
Digital Photography (Apr 1 - no fooling!),
Intermed./Level 2 Digital Photography
(Apr. 22) and Travel Photography -Tips and
Techniques (May 6) which will complete our
season there. Call 604-501-5100 to
register.Whew!
To view our
entire March - June 2007 schedule
of digital and travel photography classes,
class details and registration procedures
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TRAVEL TALES
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Unique Photo Adventures in the Greek
Islands and Turquoise
Coast
Anna, and I traveled through the Greek Islands and Turquoise
Coast of Turkey for 4 weeks in early Fall 2005
without a single hotel or ferry reservation and
never got stranded. In addition to our amazing cruise
ship guest lecturing and travelling assignments we
still backpack Europe just like the old
days. After 35 years of marriage but now pull along suitcases
with wheels to give us a few comforts (and backaches)
along the way. Anna is a super shopper (there
is bling bling everywhere!) and as professional
photographers we need the extra bags anyway. We
still long for the Europe on $5 a day era of our earlier
times but today $75-$100 a day for two (wine and local
liquers not included!) still goes a long
way.
Our adventures this time had taken us to
Paros, Mykonos, Santorini, and
Rhodes (the latter a new destination for us and
we are going back!) followed by a one-week gulet cruise
from Fethiye on the Turquoise
Coast of Turkey. We then bussed to
Bodrum, Kusadasi and Ephesus
before ferrying to the Greek Island of Samos
(where we literally vegged at Pythagorian - an
absolutely charming and relaxing fishing village with loads of
tavernas) before returning home to Vancouver via a
2-day stopover in England for our London fix.
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A unique view of the Santorini volcanic
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Santorini is one of the most
beautiful places on Earth and is always a must see when
we go back to Greece. The stunning views, spotless blue
door whitewashed lanes and proud people makes Santorini
a photographer’s dream come true. It’s beauty is not
just the living on the precipice of a volcano
overlooking the deep blue Mediterranean, its also the
beautiful, smiling and enthusiastic Irini at the Hotel
Hellas (we have nicknamed her Santorini
Irini - she calls us Dave the Rave and Anna
Banana) who literally adopts you as her children
and goes out of her way to guide and help you; and the
sunsets at Oia, mostly boring, but the ooohs and ahhhs
from the tiny friendly crowds becomes almost a rite of
passage.
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The Library of Celsus at Ephesus,
Turkey |
The medieval castle at Rhodes (a UN
world heritage site) and Roman ruins at
Ephesus are lifetime must sees. Don’t
ask questions – just go there and see for yourself. Anna
found a charming 3 room pension with private balcony
within the castle walls of Old Town Rhodes at 11:30pm at
night for 35 Euros a night – we wanted to stay
forever.
Travelling with Digital
Cameras. We both travel with digital cameras
and the addition of a battery operated 80 Gigabyte
portable disk drive permitted virtually unlimited
shooting without the worry of running out of memory
cards or needing to burn our images to CD’s along the
way. DVD burning capability is difficult to find on the
road even in today’s Greece and Turkey and expect to pay
about $10 per CD to store your images. Before heading
out on that long trip be sure to calculate the image
capacity of your digital camera memory cards and work
out the days between image downloads to be sure you can
keep shooting. Take additional rechargeable batteries
and a 220V capable converters or plug adapters with
your batttery charger to avoid camera shutdown when you
have the money shot. Share your images on the back of
your camera with your subjects as you go and you will have
new friends for life. When you get home today’s easy to
use software will help you prepare multimedia slide
shows for computer, DVD and web site viewing.
Reservations or not, the Greek Islands and
Turquoise Coast is a fascinating mix of beauty, history,
culture and fun which should appeal to travelers of all
budgets, styles and ages. Bring your camera and you
won’t be disappointed. Note: We will be cruising
the western
Mediterranean Sea in the Fall of 2007 on Holland America's
ms Prinsendam - back to our friends, favorite tavernas and mind
boggling vistas. Join us....email
us for details and schedule.
© 2007 By David &
Anna Smith. All rights reserved.
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Foto
Image Works - April 28-29, 2007
A Weekend
of Photographic Education, Motivation and
Illumination!! Take your photography to the next
level. Join three award winning professional
photographers for two days of interactive,
informative instruction on a variety of exciting
topics including...Wedding Photography, Child
Photography, Family Photography, Street
Photography, Digital Workflow
Discount for photoclub members. Taking your
Photography to the Next Level For more info
see www.fotoimageworks.com.
Professional Photographers
of BC Annual Convention. May 27 -
30th Harrison Hot
Springs Resort and Spa. For info
Image Explorations.
Shawinigan Lake, Vancouver Island, BC. July 15-19,
2007
A week of dynamic professional
development, fun, and fellowship with people who
believe that photography is a passionate and
rewarding career. For info
Image Explorations is a refreshing
approach to personal growth and professional
development in the photographic industry.
Modeled after the highly successful "Texas
School", Image Explorations gives you the
opportunity to glean real life knowledge, tips
and ideas from top North American based
photographic instructors.
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Professional Photographers of Canada PPOC
National Convention 2007 will be held in Winnipeg,
Manitoba April 14th -18th, 2007. For info
London’s international
contemporary photography fair: May 31 -June 3,
2007. for info photo-london will now focus exclusively on
contemporary photography since 1970. It aims to
show the diversity of subjects, concepts, styles
and techniques explored by photo-based artists
from documentary work to conceptual art
photography, as well as image combined with media
such as audio, video, and installation.
photo-london will provide a unique platform to
highlight the latest international trends and
expressions available in the medium of
photography.
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