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Photoshop Elements Class

Elton — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:08:33 +0000

I’ll be teaching a great Photoshop Elements 10 class April 21 & 28. Tomorrow is the last day for the earlybird discount. Sign up here: http://www.meetup.com/f2photoschool/

Thinking about a new Nikon D7000? Buy it now.

Elton — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:06:16 +0000

Thom Hogan has a good report on the flooding impact in Thailand on Nikon.

Bottom line: if you’re in the market for a D7000 between now and the end of the year, you’d probably better get it now.

www.ByThom.com

It looks like a “new” great has been discovered

Elton — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:19:17 +0000

Watch the full episode. See more Chicago Tonight.

A quick glance at the photos shown in this story indicates Vivian Maier will take her place amoung the great photographers of the 20th century.

London Photographers Test Rights

Elton — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:05:54 +0000

The rules in the USA are pretty much the same as in the UK. If you’re on public property you can generally photography anything. You can’t impede traffic. You can’t use a long lens to peek through a window where someone has an expectation of privacy. In most states, you must identify yourself to a police officer if asked. Buildings don’t have privacy rights. A public view is in the public domain.

Lightroom Class May 21

Elton — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:08:59 +0000

I’ll be conducting my Lightroom Comprehensive class May 21 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. This full day class covers Lightroom in depth and takes you from novice to expert.

Additional details and signup here: http://www.meetup.com/Photography-Workshops-With-Elton-Saulsberry/

http://www.eltonsaulsberry.com/Training/Default.aspx

Nikon D7000 Review

Elton — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:56:44 +0000

I’ve just finished reading Thom Hogan’s D7000 review. If you’re in the market for Nikon bodies, read it. Very thoughtful. http://www.bythom.com/nikond7000review.htm

Ansel Adams and the photographic process

Elton — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 21:46:04 +0000

I’ve been searching the web for an authoritative reference to what I believe is how Ansel Adams once described his photographic process:

Look
See
Organize
Expose
Develop
Print
Display

(If anyone can supply a reference for this it would be great.)

The reason I’ve been looking is that some people apparently think “display” isn’t part of the process or at least a part you don’t have to put any effort into. You tack your loose print to a piece of foam core and you expect me to care about it? Why? You don’t.

While searching, I came across this final interview, which is well worth the read.

http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/art%20news/905N-000-001.html

Lightroom 3 Class Scheduled

Elton — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:54:43 +0000

My Lightroom 3 Comprehensive class is scheduled for January 29th. It takes you from beginner to expert. Check it out!

http://www.meetup.com/Photography-Workshops-With-Elton-Saulsberry/

2 Spots Left for Elements Class

Elton — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:39:12 +0000

There are only two spots left in my January 15th Photoshop Elements class. Sign up now!

http://www.meetup.com/Photography-Workshops-With-Elton-Saulsberry/

Get in the scanner

Elton — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:07:32 +0000

There’s been a lot of hyperventilating recently about the radiation from the new scanners at the airport.

You get far more radiation from the flight.

For a typical cross-country flight in a commercial airplane, you are likely to receive 2 to 5 millirem (mrem) of radiation, less than half the radiation dose you receive from a chest x-ray. People in the United States receive an average of 360 mrem of radiation per year from natural and man-made radiation sources, which includes cosmic radiation exposure during commercial flights.

A millirem is 1,000 times a microrem.

Each full body scan produces less than 10 microrem of emission, the equivalent to the exposure each person receives in about 2 minutes of airplane flight at altitude.

For those that don’t trust the manufacturer’s numbers, an independent study of the backscatter scanners was done by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. The manufacturer’s numbers are correct. The millimeter wave scanners produce no ionizing radiation at all.

http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/03/advanced-imaging-technology-radiation.html