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Hey All!

I hope you have Photoshop World, Orlando on your calendar - March 24 - 26, 2010! I'll be there teaching classes – as well as learning from some of the greatest pros on the planet!

My talks:

1) Exploring The Light Indoors and On-Location
Learn how to see the light, control the light, and play with the light indoors and on-location. Get some cool ideas on how to use your flash, reflectors, diffusers and studio strobes and Spiderlights for making pictures - rather than simply taking pictures.

2) The Three Definitions of HDR
Join me on this exploration of High Dynamic Range photography, High Depth Range Photography, and Highly Dynamic Rockin' Images. Photomatix, Topaz Adjust and Photoshop will be part of my workflow and fun flow. The image here is one of my latest HDR images, taken in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

3) The Camera Looks Both Ways
Although my specialty is not specializing, my main focus is people photography. In this presentation, I will share my favorite people photographs from around the world - along with my top tips for great people pix.

Hope to see you there - at my sessions and at the parties!

Explore the Light,
Rick
P.S. This shot was not an accident. We hired the VW for the morning and took it around to four locations - which we had scouted the day before. Great fun working with the shadow of our guide and the VW. Yes, it is an HDR image. Tomorrow, get up early and shoot for great shadow shots.

For more on Photomatix and Topaz Adjust, check out the Plugin Experience.

Canon 5D Mark II/7D San Miguel de Allende Diaries Final Post

P.S.... to my last blog post. Just wanted to say a big "thank you" to the Antigua Villa Santa Monica in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico for a wonderful week. Great service, great food. . . and the rooms ain't bad :-)  We'll be staying here for my 2010 workshop, which is scheduled for June 30th to July 7th. Shoot me an email if you are interested. It will be a first class trip with great photo opps. And yes, these are HDR shots.

Canon 5D Mark II/7D San Miguel de Allende Diaries Post #11

Farewell to San Miguel. It has been a great week for picture making. I hope you have enjoyed the pictures and the tips. I am planning a workshop here for 2010 - so stayed tuned to the Events page of my site.

Here's my final tip: You snooze you lose! You gotta get up early to catch the great light, great color and great shadows . . . no matter where you go.

The next themed blog posts will come from Page, AZ and Monument Valley in two weeks. I'll be there catching the light. 

When you think about it, all photographers are really light catchers. Hey, that could be my Native American name while I am there: Light Catcher.

Explore the Light,
Rick
P.S. If you like light and shadows, enter my ScanCafe photo contest. Good fun and good prizes. Even if you don't enter, ScanCafe is cool place to get cool scans of your slides and prints.

Canon 5D Mark II/7D San Miguel de Allende Diaries Post #9

So I am walking around the main square in San Miguel taking the same pictures of the church that a million other photographers have taken - like the picture on the right. I did use several techniques on mine, however. One was HDR. Do you see the others? Post your answer here. Hint: some were done in Photoshop.

So I asked myself, "How can I get a shot of the church that I have never seen before?" I got the answer by simply looking around for something totally different, which resulted in the picture on the left of the church reflected in a window. I thought of the expression from the Bible: Seek and ye shall find.

Okay, it's not the world's best or most creative picture of the church. However, it is different. Most important, it was fun challenging myself do to something creative.

You assignment Mr. Phelps, should you decide to accept it: Be creative and picture a subject in a reflection.

If you get a nice shot, post it on my flickr page. And don't forget to post your comment here about what else I did to the picture on the right.

Explore the Light,
Rick
P.S. We do lots of stuff like this on my workshops.