The Photographer’s Ephemeris
Wow – every once in a while, I come across a really cool app. This one is available for Mac/Win/Linux/iOS/Android. What does it do… take a look at this screen shot:
For landscape photographers it is a truly unique tool that allows you to plan your shooting: sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset – all on a terrain map. You can add locations, toggle between multi-day and details for one day and it gives Latitude. Longitude and Elevation data. I especially like the option of added notes about each saved location. It is also pleasing to look at and use – great graphics. About the only thing it doesn’t seem to do is predict the weather! You can find this great app at StephenTrainor.com. Oh – and did I say that it is free for desktop/laptop computers? Thanks Stephen!
Fine Art Print Service now available
It’s time to move your best photographs
off your hard drive and onto your walls!
As of today, I am now offering a fine art printing service dedicated to photographers who want to get the most out of their digital files. Your photographs will be custom-printed to your specifications using archival pigment inks on 13×19 or 17×22 fine art paper.
The process starts with an assessment of the image followed by a test strip which you will evaluate and provide feedback on. Then a custom print will be made on beautiful 100% cotton rag paper and, if you choose, conservation matted and prepared for framing.
While this service is ideally suited to those living in the Guelph, Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge area, I also offer a mail service to virtually anywhere in the world.
As an added bonus, anyone who subscribes to my “mostly monthly” newsletter will receive 20% off their first print order. So start looking through your digital files to consider which ones should grace your walls. And, don’t forget, Christmas is on the horizon – there may just be other who would enjoy your photographs on their walls.
To learn more about the Fine Art Print Service, visit my website: www.luxborealis.com/printservice.html
Steve Jobs, visionary extraordinaire, has passed away.
It is a truly sad day for computer aficionados everywhere, Mac and PC and Linux alike. With the passing of Steve Jobs – a unique and creative visionary – the world has lost a truly gifted person. I am not one to lament the passing of billionaire CEOs and celebrities, but Steve Jobs was different. Maybe it’s his Buddhist faith or that he was a vegetarian or perhaps it’s his success from humble beginnings – not just the invention, out of his family’s garage, of a whole new way of computing, but that he was an adopted child which has its own difficulties. He was a brilliant thinker and was willing to stick to his vision despite the monolithic domination of Microsoft and Windows. We’ll miss you Steve!
Landscape Photography off to a good start
Dawn, Birch Tor, Dartmoor – a classic landscape.
Last Thursday was the first session of the 10-session continuing educationLandscape Photography course I teach at Mohawk College in Hamilton. The class is full and there is a waiting list, so, if you’re interested, you’ll have to wait until next Fall when it’s offered again.
The course is comprised of 8 classroom sessions plus two field sessions. We explore the techniques required for producing “classic landscapes”: 3-dimensional “grand vista” portraits of Earth with a strong foreground anchor and a real or apparent horizon. The two field sessions are devoted to natural landscapes and urban landscapes to provide wide and varied experiences. Three of the classroom sessions are spent “processing” landscapes using ACR and Photoshop (and, if you have a laptop, Lightroom). By the end of the course, students are producing compelling landscapes – the kind you feel like walking right into.
Mohawk College has an excellent continuing ed. photography programme, offering two certificates, one in Applied Photography, the other in Art Photography (see their page here). I also teach the Lightroom course for this program. If you are already proficient in some areas of photography, you can apply for “Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition” where you submit the requirements for a course, pay a lower fee than taking the full course, and, if successful, are granted credit for that course.
A successful day…
On Saturday I attended a small art show and craft sale in Mississauga at Applewood United Church. I was very pleased with the response to my work and ended up topping my sales targets by 15%. While the notecards sold well, people were really taken by the fine art prints – in particular April Storm, Yorkshire Dales; Treeline at Dawn, Bruce Peninsula; and First Light, the Massasauga. What is especially interesting is that I used April Storm to illustrate the Moab Entrada post a wrote on Thursday (see below) and it was the biggest hit of the show.
Thanks to everyone one who dropped by. I’ll be sure to let you know about the next show. In the meantime, visit my gallery online at QuietLight.ca
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