Next Meeting
Shasta Shooters will start meeting again this fall. Check this website for updates.
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Resources
Printing
PS-Print
iPrint
Overnight Prints
Art Rage 2.0
 Art Rage is a new painting tool for Windows and Mac OSX that lets you play with realistic media effects from oil paints, crayons, pencils and air-brushes. You can create your own paintings from scratch or start from a photo. There is a feature restricted free version and a hard to beat $19.95 version that adds many new tools and features. More information can be found at their website. http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html
Is Lightroom Right For You?
Soon after Adobe acquired Macromedia they released a public beta of Lightroom, a new application for professional photographers. It is an efficient, powerful way to import, select, develop and showcase large volumes of digital images. It allows you to spend less time sorting and organizing images, so you have more time to actually shoot and perfect them. Photoshop Radio discusses the new software ... web
Lightroom Now Available on Windows
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/
JAlbum
http://jalbum.net/
Check out JAlbum, free software for creating digital photo albums.
from the site:
''This gallery software makes web albums of your digital images. JAlbumaims to be the easiest to use and most powerful tool in this category - and free!
With JAlbum, no extra software is needed to view the albums, -just your web browser. Unlike "server side" album scripts, JAlbumalbums can be served from a plain web server without scripting support. You can also share your albums on CD-ROM.
JAlbumruns on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and others and speaks 29 languages.''
Radiant Vista
 One of the best photography focused websites. It has some of the best video tutorials, critiques, workbench and podcasts. The site is well designed and full of content.
The Radiant Vista is a creative community of inspiration, passion, and grace. Together we pursue our dreams and explore our endless potential. http://www.radiantvista.com
Virtual Photographer
Virtual Photographer is a Photoshop compatible plug-in that allows you to create a variety of photographic styles with the greatest of ease.
virtualPhotographer features many presets, all of which can be fine tuned to fit your requirements. Effects such as Film Grain, Soft Focus, B/W, B/W tinting, High Contrast etc. are all just a click away. No more struggling to get to grips with the steep learning curve of your photo editor. Great results are just a mouse click away.
This one is FREE and only for Windows.
http://www.optikvervelabs.com
Artifical Light
Here's some notes and links I started on the basics for dealing with mixed (artificial) lighting. Hope this is useful in any case.. -Bob
http://www.aeimages.com/learn/color-correction.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_color
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_color
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary_color
http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/colour/primary.html
http://www.cnn.com/books/beginnings/9804/primary.colors.klein/
Book results for color balancing in photography
Professional Digital Photography
by Dave Montizambert - 128 pages
The Joy of Digital Photography
by Jeff Wignall - 304 pages
Principles of Color Photography
by Ralph Merrill. Evans, W. T. Hanson, W. Lyle Brewer - 709 pages
Color Temperature and Color Correction in Photography
We are of course free to choose any two (different) values to measure the color balance. In photography it is traditional to choose as the two variables the ...
www.aeimages.com/learn/color-correction.html
Understand Light Balance and Color Correction.
Show various Roscoe Gels and how to use them for what light.
Lens and Equipment Rentals
Want to try a new lens or need a specialty lens for a project?
This place rents lenses and all sorts of equipment online . . .
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Great Articles about EVERYTHING from Ron Bigelow
web
Model and Propertry Releases - everything you need to know and then some. . .
web
Noise Nijna
web
Photo Zoom
web
Imagenomic
Noiseware 4
web
Clean Your Sensor
web
The Light Sphere Video Tutorial web
Check out this set of videos for Gary Fong's Light Sphere II flash diffuser. They are sales videos, but are valuable for flash technique in general. Reports on the Light Sphere are nothing but glowing (pun intended ;)
Light Sphere
http://store.garyfonginc.com/liiido.html
Free Lens Hoods web
Poor Man's lenshoods. Downloadable patterns for various brands and lens models.
Radiant Vista web
The Radiant Vista is a creative community of inspiration, passion, and grace. Together we pursue our dreams and explore our endless potential.
Photoshop TV web
Get the latest insider Adobe® Photoshop® and digital photography news from the “Photoshop Guys” themselves; Scott Kelby, Dave Cross, and Matt Kloskowski of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals
Nation Association of Photoshop Professionals web
The world's most complete resource for Adobe Photoshop training, education, and news.
Creative Commons web
Creative commons is copyright done right.
Tripods
Bogen / Manfrotto
3021N Tripod Legs with 3030 3-Way Pan/Tilt Head (Quick Release) is highly recommended for photography. Especially landscape photographers.
Books
Photography
by Henry Horentein & Russell Hart
The Power of Now
by Eckhart Tolle
How to Win Friends & Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
Workshops
Digital Stop web
Digital Stop offers a series of small workshops (minimum of 10, maximum of 20) covering various venues of the graphic arts.
In each session attendees will study with an instructor who has extensive knowledge of a particular computer application or topic in digital art.
The experience will be 100% hands on; participants work on their computer along with the instructor to get the most out of the learning process. Each workshop will last one or two days and will be located either in the East Bay or Marin County.
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Shasta Shooters is a users group that are planning to meet monthly
in Mt. Shasta to discuss the creative process of making images. (login)
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