So you may have noticed a change to the blog. With recent fantastic events coming up I wanted a blog theme that had two sidebars to provide more information more quickly. My good friend, awesome photographer, and book writer has put the time in to guide me through and even tweak the blog to see what you do today. I hope you find it familiar, but with a sharp edge.

On top of the blog changes the fantastic news is that I will be teaching photography technique with a photo walk soon once a month for at least three months. The dates, location and details can now be found in the right panel section marked “Events.” I will have the other two dates firmly very soon. The price of admission is free so you have nothing to lose and you may just learn a lot more then you thought you knew about your photography! Plus I am there to answer all sorts of Q&A in the field as we will shoot images all along our walk.) So what are you waiting for? check it out! Go ahead I’ll wait

Excited? I sure hope so. It’s going to be a great program and I am really looking forward to meeting my readers and to share our passion. If you have any questions please let me know. I am testing the waters with these classes and your input and experiences will help shape them for the future! If turn out is high and requests for more advanced learning grows then we might just do some classes on HDR, lighting, post production who knows… The possibilities are limitless.

To put the icing on the cake I also wanted to bring you a really cool technique I performed in Photoshop. I call it Image Overlay Sequencing. It is the process of taking many photos shot in a single sequence and overlaying them within the same scene. It is exactly like the sports sequences as multiple frames are displayed as a snowboarder flies across the half pipe. Our subject today? A young bighorn sheep that descends down a cliff-side fighting gravity. How they do it amazes me. I shot many frames, but it didn’t all come together until I used this technique. I hope it pushes your photography into new areas. Let me know if the quality of the video is an issue. In the meantime I will work on a higher quality video. Enjoy!

Updated; hope it’s better. Gotta work on making that mouse movement smoother.

I’m a few hours later from the day I said I would post this, but I wanted to share. For the longest time I had issues displaying my images properly on my portfolio site seen above (feel free to click on the image to go there.) I went through so many issues to try and get it to work. It drove me mad as my images never looked as they were supposed to. It came down to something very simple. The color profile embedded in the jpegs I uploaded.  Profiles are a difficult issue for many. There is a profile for your monitor (always calibrate), your operating system, printer, and even when you put it all on the web! My adventure was with the web obviously. Normally I shoot in adobe RGB as it has the widest gamut of colors for post processing. When it comes to the web on the other hand your browser doesn’t know how to properly deal with that.  Your goal before you throw that picture up on the web is to convert that image to sRGB. Now if it came off your basic point and shoot it’s more then likely already there. However if you are taking your images to another level by shooting RAW and with a wider gamut you need to remember to convert.

In photoshop under edit scroll down until you see “convert to Profile.”

Once you select that a window pops up. Make sure it is set to sRGB and then just click OK. Your good to go

I am still in the process of re-captioning and keywording all my images, but the content is all back up. Please feel free to take another look at my portfolio in a new light. Also there have been new additions to the Wyoming/Montana section in “Nature by Location.”

I went looking for wildlife today and only found these doe’s. I enjoy the company of any wildlife, but none wanted to stick around to stay hello. This one even stuck out her tongue.

Notes:

• Two of my friends have recently launched new versions of their websites. Make sure to check out Josh Bradley’s Blog here and Thomas Goodwin’s Blog here.
• I am decided to add flurries in the spirit of winter and Christmas/Holidays for the next few days to the blog. If you don’t like them don’t worry. It is strictly temporary.

Hey everybody. Inspired by my friends I have gained an interest in setting up a store on my website. I’ll be rotating things from time to time and the possibilities are really limitless. I’m currently getting calendars shipped to me printed on a high quality card stock with some of my favorite photographs. I say some because it was really painful filing down and picking only 13 images! If there is great interest I can make further calendars that could be wildlife, landscapes, waterfalls, Yellowstone/Grand Teton National Park etc.  Also I’ve wanted to add prints for availability as well. Currently they are metallic prints, but things will change in the future and I will always be taking requests for additions. Anything you see on the blog or portfolio is fair game. Paypal takes care of the transactions at check out and shows my header so you can feel confident it is associated with me and my site. A paypal account is not required and credit is welcome.

If anyone wants to do this on their blog I used a free plugin that does the work for ya. It’s called The WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart plugin (quite a mouthful.) You can grab it here. It allows you to use paypal as your credit and paypal transaction service. Then by just dropping a line of code (shown to you in the plugins settings tab so you can copy and paste it) in the post or page it automatically sets up an add to cart and shopping cart section. When the add to cart button is clicked the shopping cart shows itself. You can also customize your buttons as I did and point your URL to its destination somewhere on the net. All that is left is adding your thumbnails of what your selling, some text and the preset code and your golden. From that link there is also a paid plugin called WordPress eStore Plugin that is a slightly more equipped version that may be necessary if your thinking on offering digital downloads (;-).)

I hope this little tidbit has helped. Now for the sales pitch. The holidays are coming and it would be a great time to get them a gift for the new year! (sales pitch over.) Also I am currently working on updating my picture book I have written in the past called “Nature’s RAW form”. Once I get the chance to finish it I will let you all know. All the best.

Hey Everybody,

I wanted to let you know that the Photoplus Expo is starting this Thursday to the general public and running until Sunday. It’s an awesome place to be; in the world of photography. Tons of great companies from all across the spectrum, gear to try out and deals to be had! I’m attending as usual and B&H is putting out free attendance codes in case anyone was looking for one here it is “BHCARD” All the best!

UPDATE: I will be tweeting and twitpic-ing from the show tomorrow so feel free to tweet me or better yet request me. I normally keep the twitter account private, but I am making it public for the show. Sending a request to add me is the best bet for long term communique though. Tweet ya there! (I know; corny) Haha.

OOPS; forgot my username: ‘StillNature’