by Ron Landis | Jul 7, 2010 | Announcements
Recently my photo, “Late for Dinner,” was published in the June 2010 issue of Shutterbug Magazine’s “Picture This” column. The assigned subject was “Night Moves: Time and Motion.” Shutterbug renamed my photo to...
by Ron Landis | May 27, 2010 | Learnings
After more than a 35-year absence I reunited with a friend from my youth. She had done well and was in the process of sending her daughter off to a new marriage replete with all of the distractions of a wedding ceremony, celebration, and out-of-town relatives;...
by Ron Landis | Apr 4, 2010 | Announcements
I was honored with coverage in a newspaper article that was syndicated throughout Connecticut. The most prominent issue was the Connecticut Post, although it appeared in several other local town papers as well. Here is the hyperlink to the article. (Connecticut...
by Ron Landis | Mar 17, 2010 | Learnings
Several years ago there was a delightful commercial that featured a young boy about 5 years old eating his favorite cereal. The announcer was trying to entice the little boy to give him a taste by promising all sorts of presents. The boy continued to chow down on...
by Ron Landis | Feb 19, 2010 | Learnings
I just finished Danilo Piccioni’s course on “Evolution of a Masterpiece” at Perfect Picture School of Photography. It was intriguing requiring two things, a decent understanding of layers in Photoshop, and a modicum of creativity. For those without Photoshop skills...
by Ron Landis | Jan 23, 2010 | Thoughts
Exhilaration feeds the passion of our photography; all else are mere steps in between. Some say they do it to create art, others to capture an expressive moment, and many others to earn an income, but I maintain those are all mere passages. Many years ago, too many...
by Ron Landis | Jan 17, 2010 | Thoughts
The next best thing to doing nothing is doing something. This week I finally had an operation on the torn meniscus in my knee. This summer, after a brisk workout earlier that day, I was walking down a small platform on my deck when I felt an acute pain and sudden...
by Ron Landis | Dec 22, 2009 | Learnings
Have you ever frozen your fingers taking photos? I remember a sunset during the Winter Solstice where the temps were in the teens and the wind was ripping off of Long Island Sound making wind chill negative numbers. At one point I lost feeling in my fingers....
by Ron Landis | Dec 16, 2009 | Thoughts
This September I went on my annual pilgrimage to Montana and Wyoming. My close friend and fishing buddy and I have been going there since 1978. Gosh that seems like only yesterday. When we first began our trips we both lived in New Jersey and since then he’s moved...
by Ron Landis | Nov 23, 2009 | Learnings
To create sepia you have to convert your image into Black & White or Sepia monochrome. Here are a few ways to do it. One is to create a Black & White Adjustment Layer and check “Tint” which then allows you to play with the underlying color sliders...
