This week’s banner image was submitted by DIG member George Keller. Thanks, George!
Image details from George:
This picture was taken while on a shoot with friends at a lake in Sun City. It was a dark and dreary day, looking like rain at any minute. The heron flew in front of the cloud covered sun allowing me to make this photo. Not much processing except for changing if from gray to a warm mauve in Photoshop.
Model – NIKON D300
DateTime – 2009:01:28 13:58:26
ExposureTime – 1/250 seconds
ExposureProgram – Aperture priority
ISOSpeedRatings – 400
ShutterSpeedValue – 1/250 seconds
ApertureValue – F 6.30
FocalLength – 86.00 mm
FocalLengthIn35mmFilm – 129 mm
Would you like to see your image here? Members only…..Please Email your image and/or your website/blog links to: meeting@digmeeting.com with a subject of “DIG member images”. Image dimensions must be: 827pixels wide by 306 pixels high. When choosing an image to upload, keep in mind that there will be text at the upper left (as shown) and a white bar across the bottom of your image for the tabs. So share an image where you won’t mind these parts being covered up.
ALSO….please share a little information regarding your image. Suggestions: Location, time of day, equipment, etc. Also tell us if it is Photoshop art. Yes…Photoshop creations are welcome and encouraged! Just remember that the very bottom of the image will be barely visible.
Among the topics for open discussion are “blend modes” and “content aware scaling” in Photoshop CS4. We will have tutorials on these topics and again members are encouraged to participate with their questions and experiences. Should be a fun session.
As usual we encourage all members to bring prints, projects, etc. for review and discussion.
Thanks to all who have submitted images for our banner! You will see a new one at least once a week.
To be a little more clear as to how to crop your images: A quick way to crop is to set the options of your Crop Tool to the exact dimension and then just drag out the crop.
NEXT, you need to keep in mind that the bottom of your image WILL be covered with the tabs so keep this in mind when deciding where to crop. Depending on the image, this will mean that part of your image might not be seen. If your image is mostly light in tones, as in the example below, the image will probably be seen through that bar. If you want your copyright to show, it should be positioned ABOVE this bottom area.
Image before and after
The exact dimensions of this bottom area is 827 pixels by 43 pixels. To see how this will affect your image, you can set your marquis to this size and drag out the selection at the bottom. Look at the second image above to see how that selection will be lightened in order for the tabs to show up.
This is a call to DIG members for photos to be used as the banner of our website and also for your website and/or blog address for the “MEMBERS” tab of this website. Email images and links to meeting@digmeeting.com with a subject of “DIG member images”.
Image dimensions must be: 827pixels wide by 306 pixels high. When choosing an image to upload, keep in mind that there will be text at the upper left (as shown) and a bar across the bottom where the tabs go. There will be no other text.
The banner image will rotate weekly or bi-weekly depending on how many we receive.
Our next speaker was MARIANNE JENSEN. Her subject was how to use the free personal webspace provided by COX and AOL to share web galleries and slideshow. Click here for her PowerPoint presentation. For more information on Blogs and Google Reader, check the Sept, 2009 Archives for her presentations.
Links to presentations dated from 2003 to 2009 are now posted under a tab of that name above. Archives from this point forward can be accessed from the Archives drop down list on the right side of this page. If you find a link that doesn’t work, please send an email to marianne@ezpixels.com including an address of the link.
We have a great program for the Feb 9 DIG. Charles Cobeen has been working with the new “Helicon” focus software. He has been shooting tethered to a laptop in the field with Helicon controlling focus. Charles will review the updated software and demonstrate the control feature “before our eyes”.
In addition to Charles, Marianne Jensen has agreed to discuss Cox’s webspace for storing galleries.
