by Ron Landis | Nov 15, 2010 | Learnings
This past summer I spent four days in a workshop with Bryan Peterson, a well known photographer, author, and educator in photography. Bryan is the founder of The Perfect Picture School of Photography and author of Understanding Exposure as well as many other other...
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 | 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 | 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 | 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...
