Merry Christmas and thank you!

My final Photoshop-editing before Christmas ;)

(Hyvää Joulua => Merry Christmas! in finnish)
Merry Christmas to all, it was a very nice course. I will remember all you guys with warm thoughts. Thanks to Steve for being a good teacher, it was a pleasure being there. And thanks for the good tip on buying the camera I was asking you about, we ended up getting the camera you recommended (the Canon SD800 with the wide angle lense). It had a lot of good reviews. Take care everybody!

The Online Photographer: On Testing a New (Digital) Camera, Steps A and B

The Online Photographer: On Testing a New (Digital) Camera, Steps A and B Excellent advise and an interesting procedure.

Heading East

Heading East One of the joys and challenges of photography is the empathy and imagination that you develop by being observant. I love wandering around, and as I wander I am surrounded by a thousand questions and a thousand feelings. Check the related links at the bottom of the post for more impressions.

Chris Assignments on his blog

I added some last minute assignments for this class on my blog. You can check them out, including the pictures at http://crisby.vox.com/
Thanks for the class, I learned a lot, and I'm having a lot more fun with my digital photos! Thanks everyone, Happy Holidays!

Photography of Jonathan Moller

Photography of Jonathan Moller Sometimes photography serves a higher purpose. "Our Culture is Our Resistance" is a set of Photographs that serve and communicate on multiple levels.

Editing a messed up Photo

This is the original picture of Professor Owens at RAHI graduation, it is way to dark and he has red-eye

In this edited picture I cropped in down, used level adjustments to lighted it, then used red-eye removal and finally sharpened this edited picture

Editing and enhancing your photographs

This is my original photo

In this first edited picture I croped it and then used the adjustment levels to brighten the flowers

In this second edited photo I used the the first edited picture and them put it into a grayscale

In this third photo I croped it down, gave it a soft focus effect and then burned-in an edge effect

How to Buy a Digital Camera - A 9 Step Guide

How to Buy a Digital Camera - A 9 Step Guide
If you are thinking about purchasing your first, second, third, or fourth digital camera this article is valuable. When your friends for family ask you questions about purchasing a camera send them this article.

Dan's Portfolio

You can find my portfolio under http://www.dansku.net/gallery
It's from my trip to Anchorage on 23rd-24th November 2006. I took quite a few pictures from that trip and will be sharing them with my family and friends:) This a pre-taste of what they will look like.

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intention: family - my niece and two of my nephews

intention: OH yeah! Flames - you gotta love that! Feel the heat!
intention: getting a difference perspective
intention: documeting progress besides I love taking pictures of my husband!

intention: proof/ enjoying the beauty months laterintention: fun in the sun! Yes Alaska has sun!

Edited picture

Another picture I edited after my trip to Anchorage a while ago.

I started with these two files, the other one over exposed to compensate the dark trees and the creek and the other one under exposed to compensate for the bright sky and the mountains. With curves and masks I adjusted the overall balance of the exposures.


Combining the two pictures resulted this one below.


I didn't stop there. To make the scene more picturesque, I continued with the editing, ending up with this, voila! This one would even make a postcard...