back from SA

Just back in Melbourne after an amazing week experiencing the mind-blowingly beautiful landscapes of the northern Flinders Ranges in SA. In a short while I'll put Photoshop to work on the 70 or so raw images files that collected inside the Canon over the week.
Thanks to the intrepid David Amery for his enormous enthusiasm and knowledge of the area (and his superior command of a 4WD vehicle); fellow pilgrims Karen Bass and Simon Bailey; Terry and Phil from the Iga Warta community and Sid Nichols for the extensive tour of his property that is Angepena Station.
And Thank God for fine red wine.

the desert experience

I'm off on an Eco-Spirituality week in the Leigh Creek, SA, area on Sunday. I'm looking forward to seeing some great semi-desert Flinders Ranges scenery. Away from the computer but with Photoshop CS2 now loaded on the Mac I plan to get some nice raw images with the Canon to work through when I get home.
I'll be back on the 26th June.

The latest incarnation of Photoshop looks to be good. As has long been the case, one can get some great results after hours of experimentation with this software, and only be barely scratching the surface of what the image editor is capable of. An experience which is truly daunting and inspiring.

Is 80s enough?

Chartbusting 80s wrapped up in grand style last night. A bumper two-hour episode. Plenty of visual `crew gags' to keep the humour at some kind of level. Mr Egan was directing and we rigged up a microphone for him and also did a segment from the control room, courtesy of a DV cam in the control room with a wide-angle lens. There were around 150 people in the studio audience too, so there was plenty to keep boom operator Chris Hampton busy. Extra folk spilled into the control room and since there is no separate audio room I had to retreat into headphones for some of the time in order to properly mix a show amid the control room's party atmosphere.

Digital Media Festival

I went to the Digital Media Festival today with Bryce Amner. It was ok, with a few tasty gadgets from Sound Devices and some good demos of Avid and Maya. Had a good go with a Wacom graphics tablet too, which was fun. The highlight was a 90 minute seminar on the new features of Photoshop CS2, run by Mark Galer who teaches and writes about Photoshop. He had some excellent comments on the new workflow tweaks to PS and came across as quite impartial. The improvements to the RAW and Bridge facilities looks especially good. I'm now hanging out for my copy of CS2 to arrive...