May 7th, 2008
Back in January of this year we asked for you help in finding a marrow donor for Realtor Scott Kleiman. Susanne Hayek just reported that a donor has been found for Scott. Susanne says:
A donor for Scott has been found! All we know is that she is a young (20 something) woman from overseas. She […]
May 5th, 2008
The plugin I use to display the most recent photos posted to the PFRE flickr group broke for no apparent reason so I’ve had to change to a slightly different plugin. As a result when you click on one of the photos it displays that photo instead of the whole PFRE flickr photo-stream as before. […]
April 27th, 2008
I’ve put together a 4 minute video that is a composite of video clips that I shot in many of the Seattle workshop sessions to give those of you that weren’t there a feeling for what went on.
For a report from the attendee prospective be sure to see Sabrina Huang’s report on the workshop at […]
April 26th, 2008
30 of us had a great time yesterday in Seattle at the PFRE Workshop. Scott Hargis and Thomas Grubba gave us a informative and entertaining demonstration on how to light home interiors with off camera flash. Scott’s friend Thomas Grubba attended the workshop and helped with the demos. Phil Meadows gave us some training on […]
April 17th, 2008
I just got the 30th registration for the April 25 Seattle Workshop so I’ve removed the buy-now buttons from the registration page . If you’d like to be on a waiting list for the Seattle workshop in leave your name, e-mail address and phone number (this is in case the timing is tight) in a […]
April 14th, 2008
An update on the Seattle Workshop: Because of the logistics of our hands-on sessions we need to limit the number of workshop attendees to 30. We currently have 25 registered and since the rate of sign-ups last week was quite quite high so I expect the workshop to sell out this week.
Thanks to captainron’s great […]
April 2nd, 2008
Thanks to Cherie Irwin for pointing out the Adobe released Lightroom 2.0 beta today. See John Nack’s blog and Adobe Labs Lightroom site for more details. I’m going to download it and try it out.
There’s appears to be a lot of cool features in LR 2 Beta and there are still a bunch of things […]
March 28th, 2008
Over at photoshopinsider Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski made the above video introducing Adobe’s new, free photo editor online photo sharing site. Wall Street Journal also has an article on the new product.I finally got to use Photoshop Express. Turns out the site doesn’t seem to work quite right when I use Firefox on my […]
March 20th, 2008
A quick update on the April 25, Seattle Workshop (details are here): We now have more than enough committed attendees registered to announce that the workshop is a go for sure! Scott Hargis’s session on lighting with multiple strobes is a popular attraction and drawing people from all over. So far we have attendees […]
March 17th, 2008
The Lightroom 1.4 update for Mac and Windows has been temporarily removed from the Adobe.com web site. Those Lightroom users who have installed Lightroom 1.4 should uninstall the update and install Lightroom 1.3.1.(Mac, Win) until a further update can be provided.
This decision is based on errors found in the 1.4 release. You might want to […]
February 24th, 2008
Registration is now open for the Seattle Photography For Real Estate workshop on April, 25. Click here for the schedule and full details. Or click on the Seattle Workshop button along the top of the header image.
Scott Hargis has agreed to fly up to Seattle and present the first ever Scott Hargis Lighting with Multiple […]
February 22nd, 2008
John Sembrot pointed out to me that yesterday in the Home and Garden section of the New York Times there was an interesting article by Kimberly Stevens, titled “Picture, Picture on the Wall…”.
This article describes the trend currently going on where because
February 12th, 2008
During the Photo Marketing Association annual show (PMA) in Las Vegas Jan 31 through Feb 2 two new low-end DSLRs of interest to real estate photographers were introduced. Canon introduced the EOS Rebel XSi and Nikon introduced the D60.
February 11th, 2008
Scott Pruett told me about a cool new browser addon for Firefox, Safari and IE that gives a very slick immersive way of browsing photos on flickr, Picasa, Facebook and many other photo sites. Download it at picklens.com. I just used it to browse through the photos on the PFRE flickr group and it […]
February 10th, 2008
There’s a great new podcast called TWIP (This Week In Photography) that’s being done by Scott Bourne and Alex Lindsay. Scott and Alex are well known for their books and podcasts on the subject of Mac technology but they are both excellent photographers.
I’ve found many podcasts on photography difficult to listen to but […]
