Patrick R. Clark Blog: 2015

Thursday, December 31, 2015

Instant Replay: Portrait Retouching Like a Pro, with Kevin Ames

In case you missed it live, here’s a chance to see Kevin Ames delivering an incredible workshop. He’ll show you how to making portraits look their best with a bunch of insider techniques.

Kevin Ames makes beautiful portraits for private and corporate clients, and knows the ins and outs of finishing and retouching portraits. He does it efficiently, naturally, and repeatably and in this webinar he’s going to help us learn how to make our portraits look their best. He’ll use Lightroom, Photoshop, and Perfectly Clear, and you’ll come away with solid techniques for finishing your portraits, too. Levi Sim will be co-host.

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Kevin will show some basic techniques as well as advanced techniques; fortunately, the hangout will be viewable anytime on this page so you can come back for a review, but you’ll have to tune in Live to enter the raffles for some terrific prizes from our sponsors.

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The CW Teasers: THE FLASH, LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, SUPERNATURAL, REIGN and More

The CW’s shows will be returning the week of January 18, along with the series premiere of DC’s LEGENDS OF TOMORROW. Sam will be getting a terrible offer on SUPERNATURAL, Oliver will be going on a rampage on ARROW and Mary will be falling for someone on REIGN. Tuesday, January 19 THE FLASH 2.10 “Potential […]

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Double Exposure Photographs of Tokyo by Rie Miyoshi

“Sunset City” | all photos by Rie Miyoshi. Click to enlarge

Perhaps what makes Tokyo so photogenic is its sprawling, cellular and fast-paced moments that are practically begging to be frozen in time. And photographers have accepted the challenge, each capturing Tokyo–at its best and at its worst–through their own frame of vision. For designer and photographer Rie Miyoshi, that meant creating complex double-exposure photographs to capture her equally complex city she has come to know as home.

“Exposure” from her double exposure series

Miyoshi was born in the Malaysia but grew up in Japan. After moving to Hawaii for college she’s now back in Tokyo where she works in media while freelancing as a designer and photographer. For Miyoshi, Tokyo can be inspiring, but it can also be dark and lonely. And she tries to express this dichotomy through her photographs.

Writing about “Exposure” (above) Miyoshi says that she encountered a drunk father physically abusing her daughter on the street. “December is a festive month for most of us, it can also be a bad time in Japan,” she says, speaking about the hectic holidays and the many layers of stress. “My heart ached when I saw how many people passed by, looking the other way and pretending like it was any other 7 p.m. evening in a friendly neighborhood.”

“Ironically, living in a big city with all its busy-ness and attractions and opportunities for success make it easier to get less involved with other people’s lives and have fewer connections on a personal level. ” Indeed, it’s an important reminder for us all, especially around this time of year, to slow down and look beyond what we see on the surface.

2016 is the year of the monkey, which is often associated with the proverbial principle “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.” But instead of turning a blind eye, let’s all try and reach out to those around us. We might begin to see the world a little differently.

“Starry Tokyo Night”

Although not in Tokyo, the photo captures an end-of-summer candle festival in Yokohama.

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The Oil Paint filter is back in Photoshop!

The Oil Paint filter is back in Photoshop! Why was it removed? Your guess is as good as mine, but it’s back! In this tutorial, I take a look at two examples of how it can be used.

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The TV Addict Year In Review!

As the clock counts down to the end of 2015, theTVaddict.com didn’t want to end the year without getting some of our contributors takes on the year in television that was. CLARISSA: You’re trapped on a dessert island and you only get to bring one TV show from 2015. which is it and why UnREAL. […]

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On TV Tonight: Thursday December 31, 2015

NET 8PM 8:30PM 9PM 9:30PM 10PM 10:30PM ABC Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest CBS The Big Bang Theory (R) Life in Pieces (R) Mom (R) 2 Broke Girls (R) Elementary (R) CW iHeartRadio Music Festival (R) FOX Pitbull’s New Year’s Revoultion, Part 1 NBC A Toast to 2015! New Year’s […]

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Adler, Durbin to join USBC Hall of Fame in 2016

Matt Cannizzaro USBC Communications Published: December 30, 2015 | Bowl.com ARLINGTON, Texas – Kim Adler of Melbourne, Florida, and Mike Durbin of Hollywood, California, have been elected to the United States Bowling Congress Hall of Fame in the Superior Performance category. The two were among eight bowlers […]

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Busy schedule is scary, fun for McEwan

Terry Bigham USBC Communications Published: December 29, 2015 | Bowl.com ARLINGTON, Texas – When sports fans look back at 2015, the rebirth of the Professional Women’s Bowling Association Tour will rate as one of the top stories for bowling. The PWBA returned to give top young bowlers […]

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Motiv Jackal Carnage Video Bowling Ball Review

Motiv’s new Jackal Carnage provides powerful motion unlike anything Motiv has ever made before! Jackal Carnage starts out with their low rg, high differential Predator core system, offering over 7” of track flare potential. Paired up with a 3000 laser scan sanded Coercion XFS Reactive cover, Jackal […]

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Radical Primo Solid Video Bowling Ball Review

Radical’s newest release, the Primo Solid, offers their most aggressive symmetric core shape ball in the history of the Radical brand. Primo Solid starts out with the Primo Symmetric Core Shape incorporated with their patented Scoop Technology. By wrapping the Primo core with a new, more aggressive […]

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Why Your Camera is Like a Faucet

Seems like an odd title to an article, right? Well, it’s true! If you’ve ever thought about making the switch to exposing fully manually, but struggled to get apertures and shutter speeds to do what you want them to do, all you need to do is to remember that your camera is just like a faucet.

Suppose you are thirsty and have a glass of water you’d like to fill up. When you turn your faucet on just a little bit, it takes a long time to fill up as it trickles in. If you’re in a hurry, what do you do? You twist the knob all the way open so the water comes out in a larger stream and it only takes a short time to fill up.

This is exactly the relationship between the aperture and the shutter speed. When you only let in a little bit of light to your camera’s sensor, you have to let it hit the sensor longer, with a slower shutter speed, to expose the image properly. If you blast the sensor with a lot of light, it needs just a short time to hit the sensor and expose the image properly.

The only tricky part here is to remember that a small “volume” of light does not mean a smaller aperture number (like f2.8 or f4), it actually means a higher number (like f16, or f32). A lot of manuals don’t explain this clearly, but I was taught this in college and it made everything click for me; the f-stop number represents the amount of times the opening of the aperture can fit between the front of the lens and the back. Imagine 4 equally sized circles, end to end, from the front of your lens, to the back. Now imagine 16 of them. The 16 equally sized circles are going to be much smaller than the four equally sized circles to cover the same distance. That is why f16 lets in less light (less “water into the cup” if you will, and requires more time (shutter speed) to “fill the cup” (your photo) than shooting at f4 does!

Now, you have an easy way of remembering just what you need to know when you make the switch from shooting programmed or partially programmed, to manual!

Lisa is a D.C. area based wedding & boudoir photographer. Follow her on Twitter & check out her website.

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