What’s Up
I spent most of the day on Tuesday catching up on e-mails and Used Gear stuff and finally got back to work on my 2015 tax return. Lots more of that today.
The Streak
Today’s blog post marks 194 days in a row with a new educational blog post, dozens of new topics to cover, and no end in sight until my big South America trip next fall. As always-–and folks have been doing a really great job recently–-please remember to use our B&H links for your major gear purchases. For best results use one of our many product-specific links; after clicking on one of those you can continue shopping with all subsequent purchases invisibly tracked to BAA. Your doing so is always greatly appreciated. Please remember: web orders only. Please remember that if you are shopping for items that we carry in the BAA Online Store (as noted in red at the close of this post below) we would appreciate your business.
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From upper left to center counter-clockwise: Quiver Tree sunset silhouette, endangered Black Rhino (off-camera night flash), mud bathing African Elephant, Gemsbok on crest of Sossusvlei red dune, Great White Pelicans with flash, Deadvlei dunes, Quiver Tree Milky Way light painting, Palmato Gecko, and Kolmanskop desert urbex. |
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From upper left to center counter-clockwise: Great White Pelican face detail with the 100-400 II, Milky Way from Dune Lodge balcony, Burchell’s Zebra on road, Desert Chameleon, Kolmanskop doorway at night, Kolmanskop interior zoom blur (desert urbex), Sossusvlei Gemsbok & red dune, Hartlaub’s Gull, and Swakopmund dunes. |
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From upper left to center counter-clockwise: male Kudu, Deadvlei trees, Angolan Giraffes and Springbok, stormy skies with the 11-24mm, African Lion over old zebra kill, Nefertiti face on dunes from helicopter, Tractrac Chat, dune shadows from helicopter, Vulture Wars on zebra kill, Greater Flamingo in flight, and Burchell’s Zebra and Red Hartesbeest female at Okaukuejo waterhole. |
Creating Cards
On May 9, Glen Fox left a comment on the blog post here. Here is an adapted version:
This off topic. I have a request! I’m sure that many viewers greatly admire the IPT cards that you produce so beautifully. I would like to learn how one goes about creating those 3×3 image cards, assuming that he/she has some beautiful images to populate one. What software do you use and how do you do it? I’m always impressed with your skill and care in choosing the 9 images, but that is another matter and definitely one of your many gifts. I just wanna a learn the process.
In Photoshop, I create a new file: 1200 X 800 pixels. Then I crop each of the 9 horizontal images to 400 X 267 and drag a duplicate layer of each onto the new file. Then it is just a matter of working with the various layers. It helps to rename each layer with the name of the subject so that they are easier to identify when you need to move an image from here to there. I often need to flip and image by hitting Control + T for the Transform Tool and then right-clicking and hitting Flip Horizontal.
Once in a while, I use two verticals in place of a single horizontal. Those are cropped as follows: 200 pixels wide by 267 pixels tall.
You can learn all that you need to know about working with layers so that you can create your own card in my Digital Basics File.
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To show your appreciation for my continuing efforts here, we ask, as always, that you get in the habit of using my B&H affiliate links on the right side of the blog for all of your photo and electronics purchases. Please check the availability of all photographic accessories in the BIRDS AS ART Online Store, especially the Mongoose M3.6 tripod heads, Induro tripods and ballheads, Wimberley heads and plates, LensCoats and accessories, and the like. We sell only what I have used, have tested, and can depend on. We will not sell you junk. We know what you need to make creating great images easy and fun. And we are always glad to answer your gear questions via e-mail.
I would of course appreciate your using our B&H affiliate links for all of your major gear, video, and electronic purchases. For the photographic stuff mentioned in the paragraph above we, meaning BAA, would of course greatly appreciate your business. Here is a huge thank you to the many who have been using our links on a regular basis and visiting the BAA Online store as well.
I would of course appreciate your using our B&H affiliate links for all of your major gear, video, and electronic purchases. For the photographic stuff mentioned in the paragraph above we, meaning BAA, would of course greatly appreciate your business. Here is a huge thank you to the many who have been using our links on a regular basis and visiting the BAA Online store as well.
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Typos
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ps: thanks. I will check.
pps: Fixed. I typed them earlier today but they disappeared most likely due to operator error 🙂