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2013-05-22 22:29:36 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

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Tomorrow's issue is full of great new content!
New digital printing resources, ebooks, adventures, and more ...

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2013-05-22 22:05:56 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

Earth

2013-05-22 22:03:29 (5 comments, 5 reshares, 34 +1s)

When The Earth Is Speaking

This stunning picture of the eruption of the Cordon Caulle was taken from the Antillanca mountain in Chile.

Photographer: Rival Gustavo ~ http://goo.gl/H4R6S

2013-05-22 22:02:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Some pretty cool stuff to play with when you got a minute (ok, few hours) alone in front of your computer. Better than go click-click endlessly:-)

Check it out:
http://www.photigy.com/enter-the-fractal-universe-of-silvia-cordedda/

2013-05-21 18:06:02 (4 comments, 12 reshares, 66 +1s)

"Blown Away"

First image from another fantastic night out. This was the scene near Bow Summit this morning at around 3:45. The Milky Way seemed to emerge directly from Crowfoot Mountain. I already miss the northern reaches of Banff National Park!

Note: I really don't endorse lying in the middle of the road for photos. I had not seen another vehicle for hours and it seemed like an OK thing to do...

2013-05-21 17:55:45 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 37 +1s)

Donbass. Foto by Виталий Башкатов.

2013-05-21 13:37:50 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

6 Things to Love About The New Google+ Photos

There are a lot of features to discover in the new Google+!  Here are some of my favorite updates to Photos you might not have found yet.

1. Highlights view. The new photos landing page is called Highlights and it's your photo timeline -- showing you not only your best photos, but the best photos your friends have shared with you.

2. Trash view. Now when you delete photos, they go to the trash for 60 days. When you visit your trash, you can choose to restore photos (for those "oops" moments) or delete them permanently.

3. Photos search. When you do a search from the photos page, we'll search all your uploaded photos. It's pretty smart too -- we've brought all the awesomeness of Google search to your photo collection.

4. New organize mode. We have... more »

2013-05-20 19:51:59 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Julieanne Kost’s Top 5 New Features in Photoshop CC

+Julieanne Kost is one of the best sources of Photoshop and Lightroom information.

http://youtu.be/Vjg4RtV4UAk

#photoshop   #photoshoptutorials   #creativecloud  

2013-05-20 13:08:40 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 43 +1s)

Just added second Namibia Workshop for 2014.
 http://www.d-65.com/blog/namibia-2014-just-added-a-second-workshop/

2013-05-19 13:32:03 (15 comments, 112 reshares, 73 +1s)

* Balance - Tobias Hutzler*

Impressive balancing act.

Thanks to +Mike Nelson Pedde who  sent me a link to one of Tobias Hutzler's videos this weekend.

http://youtu.be/YrelKDutTyQ

#performingarts

2013-05-17 19:12:34 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 41 +1s)

Go With The Flow
The Story Behind The Image

One sunny day at Long Pond in Acadia National Park, Maine I became fascinated by the patterns of light in water I saw in my viewfinder. Suddenly, the patterns were disrupted. I looked up and saw the source of the disturbance. My dogs had gone swimming in my picture. But I soon found that the new patterns they made were much more interesting. I decided to go with the flow. Instead of calling them back to the shore, I threw sticks into the water for them, simultaneously playing and photographing for the better part of an hour.

When I got my film back (Yes, this image was made during the transition from the ‘good old days’ to these ‘strange days’.) I was surprised once again by how complex and varied patterns of light can be. These patterns became more pronounced when symmetry, almost mandala-like, was created.Creatin... more »

2013-05-17 16:59:55 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Adobe & Law Enforcement
Meet Sr. Solutions Architect John Penn II

This is both sobering and inspiring.

"Many law enforcement agencies and communities this week are commemorating National Police Week, which takes place during the week of May 15, Peace Officers Memorial Day. During this week, we’re thinking about how photographs play more of a role than ever in helping law enforcement officials gather evidence. To learn more, we met with Adobe Sr. Solutions Architect John Penn II, who dedicates his work to helping law enforcement solve cases with digital imaging technology ..."

Read more here.
http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/2013/05/celebrating-law-enforcement-week-with-adobes-john-penn-ii.html

http://youtu.be/SJ1Oo-WWHZI

#adobephotoshop   #photoshop  

2013-05-16 12:20:42 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 13 +1s)

Get A Free Preview Of My eBook Atmospheric FX

Download a free preview here.
http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/store/AtmosphericFX.php

My ebook Atmospheric FX will help you take control of the weather in your images. Weather can alter the mood of any image. Sometimes weather makes the image. Photographers learn many ways to make the most of the weather. Now, you no longer have to wait for the perfect weather, you can create it using Adobe Photoshop. Learn to do this and you will dramatically expand your creative possibilities. Add an accent or transform an entire image. The choice is yours. Think of the possibilities!

Table of Contents

1 Skies
2 Atmospheric Perspective
3 The Language Of Night
4 Atmosphere
5 Smoke
6 Snow / Rain
7 Illumination
8 Rays Of Light
9 Stars
10 Lightning
11 Rainbows
12... more »

2013-05-16 11:05:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 44 +1s)

Волны у побережья острова Кауаи, Гавайи. Автор фото: Lace Andersen.

2013-05-16 11:04:55 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 29 +1s)

Astonishing Underwater Sculptures: Vicissitudes

Vicissitudes depicts a circle of figures, all linked through holding hands.

These are life-size casts taken from a group of children of diverse ethnic background. Circular in structure and located five meters below the surface, the work both withstands strong currents and replicates one of the primary geometric shapes, evoking ideas of unity and continuum.

This exhibit sits on the floor of the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Grenada and in case you thought it was just art, it has a very practical purpose as well. The Cancun Marine Park attracts over 750,000 tourists a year and this places a lot of pressure on the natural coral reefs. These sculptures are designed to encourage coral growth and thereby add to the oceans biological flourishing.

The project is unique in its fusion of public art with environmental... more »

2013-05-14 15:10:14 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 36 +1s)

What You Eliminate Is Just As Important As What You Include

The Stories Behind The Images

You may have heard the phrase, “You’re responsible for everything that’s included within the frame of your images.” Few stop to consider that this also means, “You’re responsible for everything that’s not included within the frame of your images.” We can eliminate objects in the frame in many ways – moving the frame, moving objects, and retouching are the three most common and progressively make pre-visualization more challenging. All three practices came into play while making this image.

One day, I drove to a remote corner of California’s Death Valley National Park called the Racetrack a location famous for the unusual paths that rocks made on the clay playa’s time-cracked mud. Theories about the cause of this mysterious phenomenon include ice,wind, magnetism, and ... more »

2013-05-11 11:51:11 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 14 +1s)

Awesome Satellite Timelapses Powered By Google

Learn more about these awesome timelapse videos here.
http://world.time.com/timelapse/

“Spacecraft and telescopes are not built by people interested in what’s going on at home. Rockets fly in one direction: up. Telescopes point in one direction: out. Of all the cosmic bodies studied in the long history of astronomy and space travel, the one that got the least attention was the one that ought to matter most to us—Earth.

That changed when NASA created the Landsat program, a series of satellites that would perpetually orbit our planet, looking not out but down. Surveillance spacecraft had done that before, of course, but they paid attention only to military or tactical sites. Landsat was a notable exception, built not for spycraft but for public monitoring of how the human species was altering the surface of theplane... more »

2013-05-10 17:51:57 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Today LIVE on "The Grid:" Scott responds to the comments on the Creative Cloud subscription-only model…PLUS, an interesting new idea for Adobe

It's going to be a WILD show today, as we start with a look at the feedback from this week's Adobe announcements, and then I have an interesting idea for Adobe --- something I think photographers would absolutely love, but I need your help on it. We'll be taking your questions (and comments) live, and we're going to have some cool giveaways, and a whole lot more, today at 4:00 PM ET (New York time) at http://www.kelbytv.com/thegrid  --- see you then! (also, can you share this, pass it on, give it some love, etc.). Thanks!

2013-05-10 17:43:48 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

My Take on Adobe’s Announcements Yesterday at the MAX Conference

Over on my blog today I did a Q&A about Adobe's new subscription-only plan for Photoshop and the Creative Cloud, and I hope I dispelled a lot of rumors and misinformation floating around out there. Here's the link: http://scottkelby.com/2013/my-take-on-adobes-announcements-yesterday-at-the-max-conference/

I also got the opportunity to take quite a public flogging over trying to answer a lot of questions people have out there. Ahh, another day in paradise. ;-)

2013-05-10 11:00:52 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 14 +1s)

Breathtaking Pictures Taken With a GoPro Camera

GoPro is the company that makes small, wearable, waterproof and shockproof cameras.

Founder Nick Woodman was inspired to start a company dedicated to adventure photography after a 2002 surfing trip to Australia. Hoping to capture incredible images, he soon discovered that high quality equipment could not be obtained for reasonable prices. So, he decided to start a company where everyday people could capture professional-like shots. Hence, the company's name "GoPro."

GoPro's cameras have now been used by the surfing community as well as by the skiing, bicycling, and skydiving communities. To show you just what this camera is capable, the company also just released an awesome 5-minute video. Warning: It's a heart-thumping, blood-pumping video that'll make you want to grab your bike, surfboard,... more »

2013-05-09 12:28:09 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 17 +1s)

Free May Desktop Calendar

My free May desktop calendar features an image from Uyuni, Bolivia in the Atacama desert.

Download it here now.
Find out about upcoming events here.

http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/about/calendar.php

2013-05-04 12:33:00 (3 comments, 4 reshares, 18 +1s)

Sebastiao Salgado – The Silent Drama Of Photography

“Economics PhD Sebastião Salgado only took up photography in his 30s, but the discipline became an obsession. His years-long projects beautifully capture the human side of a global story that all too often involves death, destruction or decay. Here, he tells a deeply personal story of the craft that nearly killed him, and shows breathtaking images from his latest work, Genesis, which documents the world’s forgotten people and places.”

View his recent TED talk and find links to books here.
http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/blog/11035/sebastiao-salgado-the-silent-drama-of-photography/

Find more photographer’s videos here.
http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/blog/category/video-photographers/

#photography  

2013-05-03 02:17:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)

Welcome to the new Google+ Photos page!

The photo community here on Google+ keeps inspiring us every day. Your passion for sharing beautiful photography drives us to keep thinking of new ways to make your images shine. This doesn’t just mean building new features you can use to share and discuss those important photos in your life -- we also want to help this vibrant community of Google+ photographers grow. 

So, say hello to the new Google+ Photos page! Here’s what you can expect:

You’ll get inspired. We’ll share beautiful and thought-provoking photographs, and shine a spotlight on the photographers who created them. 

You’ll meet great new people. Through Google+ Photographer Spotlights, the Google+ Photos Chat Series, and good-natured conversations within the community, you’ll be able to connect with people around the world wholove photos a... more »

2013-05-01 20:27:40 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 23 +1s)

Minor White’s Essay - Equivalence: The Perennial Trend

This essay is a must read for fine art photographers.

http://jnevins.com/whitereading.htm

#historyofphotography  

2013-05-01 20:23:39 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 20 +1s)

Equivalence In Photography

Here's an essay I wrote for an upcoming exhibit.

Equivalence is an idea that has been discussed often in my family and among my father's colleagues. This was an interesting opportunity to explore it further - and to have a few more good conversations with my old man.

"The idea of equivalence in photography is richly rooted in a time when photography was beginning to discover its own nature and continues to be a powerful force for discovering our own nature, which is greater than we think.

Alfred Stieglitz first used the term equivalent as a title for a series of photographs of clouds, whose aspirations were more musical than representational, and to describe a particular kind of activity in art and its result, “My photographs are ever born of an inner need – an Experience of Spirit … I have a vision of life, andI try... more »

2013-04-29 00:08:56 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 18 +1s)

17 Quotes On Light

Here's a collection of my favorite quotes on light.

" Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography." - George Eastman 

"Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis." - Karl Kraus 

"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary." - Aaron Rose

"I find the light and work it, work it, work it." - Janice Dickinson 

"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep." - Le Corbusier

"The substance of painting is light." - Andre Derain
"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time." - John Berger <... more »

2013-04-23 17:30:36 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

Rodney Smith On Digital Photo Pro

This is an insightful interview from a modern master.

"I learned my craft. But learning the technique of photography only takes you so far. You have to have something in your heart that needs to be expressed or exposed. You have to find some way to give form to feeling. From my point of view, that generally doesn't come from just studying the technique of photography. You have to have some passion or some interest." - Rodney Smith

http://bit.ly/13WtpiY*

2013-04-23 05:49:52 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 33 +1s)

Greenland Voyage - Up To 20% Off

Cool!
Quark just offered our workshop participants up to 20% off on our Greenland Western Fiords Voyage Aug 31-Sep 10.
6 spaces left.

Email jpc@digitalphotodestinations.com.

http://www.digitalphotodestinations.com/2013-greenland-western-fjiords/

#greenland   #workshop  

2013-04-20 22:39:31 (20 comments, 81 reshares, 224 +1s)

25 Quotes On Photography

Here's a collection of my favorite quotes on photography.

"Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology." - Ken Rockwell

"The photographic image ... is a message without a code." - Roland Barthes 

"Every photograph is a battle of form versus content. The good ones are on the border of failure." - Garry Winogrand

“There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.” -Ansel Adams

"When you put four edges around some facts (photographs), you change those facts." - Garry Winogrand 

"The two most engaging powers of a photograph are to make new things familiar and familiar things new." - William Thackeray

"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught onfilm ... more »

2013-04-18 11:37:50 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 9 +1s)

Photoshop Sneak Peek CS7
Camera Shake Reduction

Adobe's Zorana Gee quickly demonstrates new deblurring technology.

http://youtu.be/stUD-DRhTZg

#photoshop  

2013-04-17 15:29:05 (1 comments, 6 reshares, 6 +1s)

Lightroom 5 Resources Roundup

Useful LR5 resources are posted by Adobe, NAPP, and Photoshop Café.

Here’s a list of and links to those resources.

Photoshop.com
http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/2013/04/lightroom-5-beta-now-available.html

LR5 Advanced Healing Brush
LR5 Radial Filter
LR5 Upright
LR5 – Terry White’s Top 5 Features

NAPP Lightroom 5 Launch Center
http://photoshopuser.com/lightroom5/?utm_source=napp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=lr5+invite

LR5 Smart Filters
LR5 Cloning Healing
LR5 Spot
LR5 The Radial
LR5 Upright
LR5 Book Changes
LR5 Slideshow
LR5 Tips

Plus, check out this free NAPP PDF and Lightroom eMagazine.http... more »

2013-04-16 13:58:04 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

Some early resources for what's new in the Lightroom 5 beta, compiled by Lightroom product manager +Tom Hogarty:
http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2013/04/lr-5-beta-resources.html

2013-04-16 13:56:53 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

We did a short video showing the 7 hottest new Lightroom 5 features

We count 'em down here. 

2013-04-16 13:56:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

BREAKING NEWS: Adobe just released "Lightroom 5" Public Beta version

...and we released our Lightroom 5 Learning Center with all the latest info, videos, and more! Here's the link: http://www.photoshopuser.com/lightroom5

2013-04-14 22:34:43 (6 comments, 4 reshares, 33 +1s)

13 Quotes On Seeing

Here’s a collection of my favorite quotes on seeing.

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see. ” ― Henry David Thoreau

“What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.” – C.S. Lewis

“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” – John Lubbock

“We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.” – Anonymous

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Humans see what they want to see.” ― Rick Riordan

“People only see what they are prepared to see.” -  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” – Henri Bergson

“We don’tsee things as they are. We see them as we are.” -  A... more »

2013-04-11 16:18:02 (15 comments, 1 reshares, 37 +1s)

Point Lobos Contact Sheet

Here's the first cut of my images from my Point Lobos Boutique Workshop.
I suspect that fewer than 1/3 will make the final cut.
I love to watch the development of visual ideas in contact sheets.
Collections in Lightroom makes selecting and sequencing so fluid.

#californiaphotography   #californiacoast   #bigsur   #pointlobos  

2013-04-11 16:12:15 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Highlights Of My Point Lobos / Big Sur Boutique Workshop

Location Highlights

Point Lobos, Sobranes Point, Garrapata Beach, Pfieffer Beach

Doug Steakley's photographic guide to area locations is very helpful.

http://www.amazon.com/Photographing-Big-Sur-Perfect-Photographers/dp/0881509280/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365695910&sr=8-1&keywords=photographing+big+sur
Food Highlights

Highlands Inn (drinks), Ventana (Big Sur), Aubergine (Carmel)

Workshop Highlights

Reviews - seeing every participant become deeply moved and making more authentic images

I'm looking forward to doing this workshop again next year.

http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/workshops/carmel_digital_photography_workshop.php

And to my Santa Fe / O'Keefe Country Boutique workshop next... more »

2013-04-07 17:37:50 (1 comments, 7 reshares, 21 +1s)

The decisive moment on steroids in these photographs.

2013-04-07 17:21:36 (6 comments, 2 reshares, 39 +1s)

Late Night

I'm sure that many of you will find this composition very close to what you experience late at night when you are reading an amazing book and you can't wait to read the following chapters...

Artist: Kevin Carden ~ http://goo.gl/5dqJ6

2013-04-05 18:25:50 (2 comments, 5 reshares, 16 +1s)

Vincent La Foret Shares Game Changing New Gyro For Video - MoVi

Very cool!
This video short really demonstrates the capabilities well.

http://vimeo.com/63357898#

2013-04-05 17:35:12 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Lecture & Workshop at CFPA in Monterey, CA

Tonight at 6 in Monterey, CA at CFPA I present my talk Process. Tomorrow a one day workshop.
You'll find details here.
photography.org

You can get a taste of it in this online book preview.
http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/store/Process.php

2013-04-03 14:23:59 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 13 +1s)

Lightroom 4.4 full release is now available for download! 

Enjoy these updates:
1 - Added raw file format support for 25 cameras including the Canon EOS 1D C and Nikon D7100 
2 - Bug fixes for issues introduced in previous versions of Lightroom.
3 - Updated the imaging algorithm for Fuji X-Trans sensor.  This should improve the default raw file support for X-Trans cameras such as the Fuji X-Pro1 and Fuji X-E1.  

Read more on the Lightroom Journal: http://adobe.ly/10ouXNM.

2013-04-02 19:49:13 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)

William Eggleston Wins Suit Over Editions

This is an important legal event for fine artists and print editions.
Whether you agree with the ruling or not, it's important to be aware of it.

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/885054/judge-rules-william-eggleston-can-clone-his-own-work-rebuffing

2013-04-02 12:58:21 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

More excellent tutorials just added to the Photoshop and Lightroom Magazine I'm curating on Flipboard.

2013-04-02 12:56:06 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

How Cool! You can borrow Google Glasses from Borrowlenses.com. http://bit.ly/100jnbT

+Jim Goldstein +Juan Pons 

2013-04-01 22:18:29 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 16 +1s)

Free April Desktop Calendar

My free April Desktop Calendar features an image from Iceland.

Download it here.
http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/about/calendar.php

See more images in this series here.
http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/jpcGallery/browse.php?kw[]=suffusion%20series&num=9

Enjoy!

#iceland  

2013-04-01 16:46:10 (4 comments, 5 reshares, 52 +1s)

Seth Resnick - Images From Two 2013 Iceland Auroras Workshop

+seth resnick shares over 100 images from our recent Iceland Auroras adventure.

View them here.
http://bit.ly/10sDtJh

Seth makes an interesting / useful distinction on his website using Recent Work for contenders or his first edit (a personal selection that's different than what he submits to Getty) and Portfolio a smaller selection of images that he later decides to exhibit.

Reserve a space on our 2014 preregistration list.
Email jpc@jdigitalphotodestinations.com.

http://www.digitalphotodestinations.com/262-2/

2013-03-31 13:14:45 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Eric Whitacre / Virtual Choir Live With Skype At TED – Cloudburst

An inspiring story and an unusual performance at TED complement this beautiful piece of music.

Enjoy!

http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/blog/10871/eric-whitacre-virtual-choir-live-with-skype-at-ted-cloudburst/

2013-03-29 18:08:42 (18 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

Anyone here using Instagram? I'm sharing pictures @FlakPhoto

2013-03-27 14:56:04 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 37 +1s)

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