Monthly Archives: October 2008
On November 1, 2008, I will be hosting the first of many Freebie Days to come. I will out at two locations on Saturday afternoon, so come on out at get some free photos. Bring your pets, your children, the whole family, the entire family, or get a nice Facebook Photo. You could get your photo taken for Christmas cards and gifts this year. You can come in your Halloween costume for all I care. Anything you want — it doesn’t matter!! Below are the details of the locations and times where I’ll be. Remember to tell all your friends or just bring them with you.
#1 LOCATION
Where: Augusta State University, in the Courtyard between Payne and Fanning Hall off of Arsenal Avenue
When: Saturday, November 1, 2008 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm
#2 LOCATION
Where: Pendleton King Park in the Garden Area at the Entrance to the park
When: Saturday, November 1, 2008 from 3:30pm to 4:30pm
The DETAILS
When & Where : I will have different locations and times set up throughout the year. Become a fan of Lawrence Kent Photography on Facebook or email info@lawrencekent.com for updates.
Why : Freebie Days allow me to have some fun with my cameras while allowing you (and everyone else interested) to have an opportunity to get some free photos!
Who : Anyone and everyone can come – tell all your friends!
More : You’ll receive an email with your photos attached after the Freebie Day. You can do whatever you wish with them. They might even get posted on the blog!
Wow! How hard can being the best man be?
At the beginning of the summer I finally was fed up with my PC. I needed to take my creativeness to the next level and to help facilitate that process I made the commitment to switch the Mac. It was hard for me to decide which Mac to go with. Laptop or a desktop, 15 inch or a 20 inch, black or white? So many options! I finally settled on a 24″ iMac. It had everything I needed for now. I really nice 24″ display, everything bundled together, a decent processor, standard amounts RAM (which I would of course upgrade immediately), and a sweet sizes hard drive. Brand new, everything was going to run about $2,200. Geez, was I really spending that much on a computer. Yep – I would, but I didn’t have too. I actually found out the Apple sells refurbished units at a much lower cost. I found my 24″ iMac in the Refurbished Apple Store online for only $1,299 plus the cost of Apple Care. What a steal!!!
Apple guaranteed everything with Apple Care for 3 years. It was a no brainer.
I absolutely love everything about this computer. Apple is at the forefront of personal and business computers. Every time I go the use a PC, it just seems so old dated. Not so cool! Here’s the model I got. It wasn’t the new released aluminum iMac, but was still awesome! Going from 19″ to 24″ was WOW!! Complete happiness!
Lately I’ve been kicking around the idea of upgrade from my HP 15″ Pro Laptop to an Apple MacBook, but just wanted to wait until something new was released. I used to se my laptop all the time. Especially at receptions to show some of the images we got from the wedding day. I also used it for editing on the go, watching movies, etc. But lately I haven’t touched the thing. Only for the occasional audio edit or on the go need, it just sat there.
Well Apple just released the new MacBook and MacBook Pro. It is super nice. It’s made from one solid block of aluminum, has a comfortable, backlit keyboard, ultra fast graphics chip, glass-like trackpad, and many others endless features. Plus, it’s affordable. I’ll be ordering one today or tomorrow and I’ll post an update when it arrives. So that means I will be selling a Windows Laptop very soon! If you know anyone who may be interested, please let me them know to contact me. They can e-mail me at kent@lawrencekent.com.
Here’s the new MacBook.
Check out these from my yearbook photos through the years. 1950 through 2000. These are hilarious. They were created using some sweet software over at yearbookyourself.com. You just upload a photo on their site and adjust the zoom, rotation, and location and you can see yourself through the years.
Pretty cool! Everyone I showed got a big laugh from it.
So many times I get “can you Photoshop this or Photoshop that” or “how did you get that shot or effect”? I will admit that Photoshop is one of the two essential tools I use for editing and managing my photos. Now while I use Photoshop for editing photos, it’s not what I completely rely on. Photoshop is just a tool. I create the image. I must first see the photo and then capture it. I strive 100% of the time to get as much correct in camera so to minimize the time editing in Photoshop thus being able to delivered my clients their images faster. I usually only use Photoshop to take an already great photo and make it better. Whether it’s popping the color, retouching skin, reducing the dark circle under eyes, etc. The photo is taken to it’s full potential.
Now I’ll be the first to admit that Photoshop is not for everyone. It has somewhat of a steep learning curve and knowing some technical terms helps in learning Photoshop. I’ve spent years learning Photoshop and still learn new things daily, plus Photoshop can be down right expensive for someone who’s just editing images for fun of friends, family, and there experiences.
One new tool that the Adobe Photoshop Team has recently launched is photoshop.com. Photoshop.com is basically an online scaled down version of Photoshop that’s available for use by everyone. And it’s FREE!!!!
Photoshop.com allows anyone to upload their images, adjust white balance, exposure, tinting, retouching, contrast and so much more. It builds albums and slideshows that one can share with anyone (with a unique URL). People can even download and order prints of the images. It connects with Facebook, Picasa, Photobucket, etc. I really think the Facebook connect is the best. You can upload you photos to Photoshop.com, make any corrections or adjustments you want to your photos and then just drag over to the Facebook connection and presto Photoshop.com sends your adjusted images to your Facebook profile. Isn’t that sweet.
Recently, the folks over at Layers TV talked about Photoshop.com and it’s abilities. You can click here to view the tutorial (which starts at the 22 second mark) or click the photo below to see it.
You can also click here to see one of the galleries I created using Photoshop.com.
