Month: September 2009

Tuesday Top Five Nuggets

In lieu of a software review, today instead just a couple news nuggets for you. First up, the finalists of the $500 giveaway have been determined.  These six finalists are being considered to win a pretty impressive package of stuff…

Hardware Review: XRite Colorimeter

Eventually you knew it was coming – the subject of color management.  Now before you mosey along, or your eyes glaze over, rest assured, this is not going to be the typical discussion of color management.  I am not going…

Peruse your archives

First off, I’d like to extend a big time “Thanks” to Andie Smith for bravely stepping up to the plate and delivering a home run of a first Guest Blogger post.  With 17 responses to her post, it is already…

The First Guest Blogger is…

Andie Smith! She is taking the reins tomorrow on the blog, and after uploading the content and photos, I am pretty stoked.  She has a naturalness to her writing, and her portrait work really is amazing.  Make sure you stop…

Cabo Creativity

Last week’s first ever 5-day series of written work “The Five Elements of Control” featured 5 distinct ways in which you can control and increase the impact of your work.  Those elements were through controlling for luminance, color, geometry, context,…

Five Elements of Control: #4 Context

Have you ever seen something that looks so out of place that it catches your eye?  Well catch it with your lens too, because contextual positioning of subjects in interesting or unusual/unexpected areas creates visual interest.  This is what I…