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PUG meeting – Joe Buissink

August 21, 2009

Last night I attended the monthly meeting of Phoenix PUG (Pictage User Group) in downtown Phoenix. It’s co-hosted by Arizona PPA. Joe Buissink was the special speaker. Joe has been a favorite wedding photographer among many celebrities such as, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey. He came to share his passion for photography and how develop his style through the years. It is very inspiring and refreshing. Special thanks to Melissa Jill for organizing this event.


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Photographers without cameras:)


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Some are working, Joe is getting ready to speak


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Me and Joe – with some emotion – shot in P mode:)

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Cathy Crawley - That rocks! I bet you learnt lots from him!
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Scott Robert Next Level Workshop in Las Vegas

February 20, 2009

I spent 4 days in Las Vegas last week to attend Scott Robert’s Next Level Workshop. The theme for Scott’s 2009 workshop is “The More You Know, The Less You Need”. Scott is very artistic and talented photographer and speaker. He has the heart to mentor young photographers to get to their next level in photography. He just won a Kodak award in the WPPI competition.

Scott shared things and challenges he struggled when he first started out as a photographer. He has great artistic sense and his approach to photography really renew my philosophy in photography. Throughout the three days workshop, each day we mostly spent half day in classroom and half day to practice shoot in the Stripe. Photographers in the class are so energetic and have the same vision — to bring their photography to their NEXT LEVEL. They came from different countries around the world including Africa, Canada and UK. It’s great to hang out with all of you (I know you’re reading:) It’s such a great experience and I really hope I can attend Scott’s other workshops in 2009 (Venice, Hawaii, Beijing, LA)

Glad to meet some new friends from the workshop

Lynn-Kai Chao, Sarah Dawson, Roy Rogers, Marie Lyssa, Cindy Fong, Eric Fung, Amber Hughes, Paul Huynh, Brian Baker, Dorene Nash, Jenna-Marie Lamb, Arielle Langhorne, Junshien Lau, Rockie Lee, Chantal Miliane, Stephen Ng, Bryan O’Neal, Gurm Sohal, Linda Tamarpirat, Wing Wong, Tauran Woo, Bandele Zuberi, Michael Kawasaki, Takashi Nakano.

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Amber Hughes - Nicely done Kelvin! Love your shots. :)
Tauran - Great job Kelvin! It was wonderful meeting you!
Scott Lim - Very nice job, keep moving forward and you will have a bright future!!
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Lightroom 2.0 Beta

April 2, 2008

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Lightroom 2.0 Beta is available! There are some new neat features in this beta:
1) Localized Corrections
2) Better Photoshop Integration
3) Post-crop vignetting
4) Multiple Monitor support
5) Picture Packages in the print module.
6) Output Sharpening in the print module
7) Smart Collections
8) Printing directly to a JPEG file in the Print module
9) Suggested Keywords
10) New filter panel in the Library module + Slideshow and Web modules both have Content panels as well as Collection panels

Download Lightroom 2 beta here
- NAPP’s online learning center
- John Nack’s Blog
- Scott Kelby’s blog

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Gmail and Thunderbird

March 15, 2008

Gmail is a very popular webmail and I believe most of you have one or multiple gmail accounts. It has a lot of advantage over yahoo or hotmail. The interface is simple and fast. The mail search is extremely powerful. If you like me, want to archive those emails into your own computer. You would probably use some kind of email clients in your computer. I use Mozilla Thunderbird which is completely free, just like his sibling Firefox. Lately Gmail starts supporting IMAP, which makes it extremely powerful for using with offline email clients. However, setting up Thunderbird with Gmail is not straightforward. I found this link giving out the complete procedure to sync between your Gmail account(s) and Thunderbird. The neat things such as sent, trash folders sync. Labels in gmail syncs with folders in Thunderbird. Once you got it setup, it is extremely convenient.

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The other cool thing I found from Google is the Google Apps. I just set it up in my upcoming “Kelvin Photographer” site.

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Retouching

March 8, 2008

The technology of digital photography brings the photography business into a whole new world. Digital post processing helps a lot of photographers in refining their pictures. It’s especially crucial for lifestyle type pictures which the photographers don’t really have a lot time to get the lighting right before the precious moment goes away. I’ve been creating my own photoshop actions for a while. Lately I decide to do a housekeeping work in my action palette. With the button mode in Photoshop action palette, it’s extremely easy to retouch pictures ’straight out of the camera’ in couple of minutes. Here is an example of lighting, soft filter and sharpening actions.

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My Photoshop Action Palette
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Aperture 2.0

February 14, 2008

Apple release a new version of Aperture. The Aperture is a pioneer software in photo editing. If you like Lightroom and you should check out Aperture. It’s a great one-stop tool from RAW image to book print and web slideshow. I enjoy using Lightroom in my workflow but I see some cool new features from Aperture for healing/fixing and vignetting. It’ll definitely save you a lot of time in your workflow… For Windows user, you’ll need to get a mac to use Aperture:)

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