Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Partial Eclipse Photography

Howdy

I kinda anticipated that there would NOT be to much of a photo opportunity around here in dreary, cloudy Vancouver, WA

So when a bright patch actually appeared in the cloudy sky, just after mid-eclipse I switched lenses...

Sigmas 300mm , 1/500th of a second, f/ 22, ISO 100

Lightroom 4 teased out enough information to make out that the sun was actually being covered by the moon. Highlight and shadow recovery really helped!

Before and after

I also shot a sequence starting at first contact and ending at mid-eclipse, yep, it got dark.

You can see the video on my Facebook page

Next astronomical Photo opportunity?

Venus transits the Sun on June 5th! 

Week 4 Review

 

Reminder

There is no class on Saturday, May 26 (memorial Day week end)

Class resumes on Saturday, June 2, same place same time.

Have a great long week end!

Here's one of my eclipse photos… Yes, it was very cloudy...

Partial Eclipse  30 of 42

 

 

 

 

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Partial / Annular Solar Eclipse - Photo Opportunity

Howdy

Here's the details  Data from  http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/vancouver

Partial Solar Eclipse from Vancouver, WAEclipse


Partial eclipse begins May 20 at 5:04 PM 263° 35.4° above horizon
Maximum Eclipse May 20 at 6:21 PM 277° 22.1° above horizon
Partial Eclipse ends May 20 at 7:29 PM 288° 10.5° above horizon 
Times are local for Vancouver (PDT - Pacific Daylight Time).



Annular Solar Eclipse

Between Medford and Redding CA

Maximum for about 5 minutes in the center of the path
Time for Redding Annular
Maximum Eclipse May 20 at 6:29 PM 280° 19.7° above the horizon

 

Also Annular in Brookings, OR  to Eureka, CA

The Google Map is interactive and will give times (UT) for any location in the path

 Click the Map (it's pretty and neat!)

GoogleMap

 

 

 

Remember DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN!

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Making A Selection using Color Range...

Selection using Color Range and Refining the Edges... 

Before After

You'll Find the details here,  http://uofgts.com/PS-P2Site/selectionbycolor.html

 

 

Week3 Review -Part 1

 
Have fun!

Objectives

Setting up Photoshop for best performance

Learning the Work Environment, The canvas, tools, tool bar options and the dialogue panels.

The "power" in Photoshop is: Adjustment Layers, Selections and Masks

Homework

Besides Practice, practice, practice it's time to share your before and after photos….  post a sample of your work to the class blog...

Next up:  Making selections using Selection > Color Range... 

 

Got a question, holler!

Monday, May 7, 2012

Week 2 -Camera Raw, Mastering The Basic Panel -Links fixed

Okay Let's try this again with UNIVERSAL Links

Objectives

Learn the Basic Panel in Photoshop's Camera Raw.

"Photoshop is a great plugin for Camera Raw," Photographer and Camera Raw Guru, Jeff Schewe

It is easier and quicker than using Photoshop Elements or Photoshop to enhance your photo's. The Camera Raw plugin not only loads digital raw files, it'll also load "jpg" and "tiff" photos.

Have fun processing your images!

Send me some examples of your work!  or post them to the blog...

 

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Camera Raw V6.7 Update for Photoshop CS5.5 and Photoshop Elements 10

 Howdy

This may be the last update for Camera Raw in the Photoshop CS 5 Suite

If you have a brand new camera, this update will be very important!

For Windows Photoshop CS 5 Camera Raw 6.7

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5371

For Macs Photoshop CS 5 Camera Raw 6.7

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5370

 

For Photoshop Elements 10 (Windows)

 For Photoshop Elements 10 (Mac)