Blue Pixel

If you use a Mac and you video conference using your iSight, you might notice that sometimes the quality, well, sucks.
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Bill Durrence, a Blue Pixel instructor, recently received a letter from a student asking about the many photo packages available, and what tools are really needed to get the job done. Here's Bill's response:
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I often get emails from people who've attended one of our workshops, asking for a bit of help. This one was from a dad looking for some help with his son's science project involving image resolution. The answer happens to be a great tutorial for anyone looking to get better looking printed images.
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I just posted a large entry on PDNOnline.com about this, but thought I'd share here. Apple's released an update to Aperture, bringing it to version 1.1. The company also dropped the price of the program $200 and is offering an in-store coupon for early purchasers of the program. Full details are up on pdnonline.com.
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From PDNOnline.com Apple announced Boot Camp, software designed to allow owners of Intel-powered Macintosh computers to run Windows XP on those machines. Apple's software solution will allow users to create a Windows partition on their drive, which the user can boot into at startup time.
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In addition to working with Blue Pixel, I'm the Technology Editor at Photo District News magazine, and sometimes I find myself doing very odd things in my capacity there as chief product tester.
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Instead of thinking about going into DC and photographing the Cherry Blossoms when they're in bloom; today I actually did it. And from the number of other folks there, I was not the only one who decided to get up at an ungodly hour to shoot them at sunrise. So what's a photographer to do when you arrive with the excitement and the anticipation of creating some really cool photos and find the pristine view littered with tripods?
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Do you love to shoot nature photography? I know that I love to travel and get up before sunrise to shoot a cool landscape or the dew on a flower. It's a great way for me to shoot things I normally don't cover, but there are guys out there that do it everyday that are exceptional at their craft. One of those is Daniel J. Cox.
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I love to shoot black and white, especially with digital. Learn how I just did this on the West Wing TV show for NBC. This shot is of Actress Allison Janney walking outside the real White House between takes on location in Washington, DC.
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Well, we made it back from Africa, safe and sound. We had a great trip, and aside from a few bumps along the way, I think we’d all be eager to go again. The trip was 11 days, but with travel we really had 9 days in Tanzania. Most of that time was spent on what’s called a safari drive (driving through Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater areas), with a couple of days for seeing some of the towns and local culture. Here’s what we learned.
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