Portfolio

For those interested in simply viewing a portfolio of my work it is now located on the home page; http://www.sbalaniphotography.com

Monday, April 14, 2008

Up to date

So I thought after my two week absence an update might be in order considering lots has happened in the last few days:

1. I spent last weekend in Orlando Florida, like one of the coolest places ever! :D attending photoshop world! Unfortunately the area i was in was not nescessarilly the most photogenic of places.

2. I now have in my possession a 40D! beautifull camera! i love it! makes my old 350 feel like a toy! (and here you shall see the first images from the belly of the beast!)

3. got a whole bunch of new equipment and ive been playin with it hehe.

Well since i know most of you folks dont like to read, ill get straight to the pictures:

Typical headlights

Ok so I know this is quite typical shot, streaming headlights, but i was playing around with a gorillapod I got, not bad, but the surface it was on was not gorillapod friendly (and i think this was a 350D image actually)

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiits Photoshop world!

Photoshop world....Nuff said

Another sunset

Got this from my hotel room on one of the last days, tried to get two files one exposed for the sky and one for the ground, adn tried HDR or merging them in photoshop but no such luck, the combo looked awfull, and the bottom half of the image wasnt dazzling enough to merit it my time

how do i reach that...

Wonderworks! wish id had time to check out its interiors, but I didnt...still a really funky building though! :D

New 28 - 135mm lens

Ah yes! my new kit lens, came with the 40D, nice lens for a kit one, took the picture using a 430speedlite thru an umbrella (part of my new kit) not too bad considering the mess my room was in! lol)

as usual photos can be found here

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Photoshop World Day 1 + Pre Con

As usual its taken me a few too many days to post up a new post since my last one, but life has been a bit crazy as of late.

These last two days have had me end up in Orlando, Florida for the Photoshop World Conference. I can only say....its AMAZING! The number of tutorials and classes ive attended (and its only day 1!) are mind boggling! Tomorrow im expecting it to be even more so.

Yesterday I attended a lecture on Photoshoots, hosted by Canon USA. Today this morning I attended the keynote conference where adobe outlined two amazingly new products.

Photoshop Express: A simplified online version of photoshop
and Lightroom V.2.0 Beta! which is now available for free (for 30 days for non lightroom owners) from the Adobe website. (Review comming soon)

Below are pictures of the conference, and of the photoshop guys during the photoshop user tv live filming (which will air in 2 weeks time according to them)

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