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» Learning Wednesday

 Today will be all about learning new things, whether it be Photoshop, Lightroom or web things, I have some learning links saved up for you for today!

• Kelby Training has released a brand new online class that is called "Retouch a portrait in 15 minutes" by Vincent Versace. It is a great class where you’ll learn the secrets to quick and good portrait retouches that is actually used in a workflow environment. I’ve watched the first few lessons in the class myself and I think it looks great! Not for the beginner though but for someone who knows their way around Photoshop.
   
• If you are planning on visiting Photoshop World coming up to Orlando, April 2-4 this spring you should note that the date of the early-bird registration closing is coming up in about ten days. It is a $100 saving, so if you are planning on going to Photoshop World, you should register soon (and to prevent it from selling out before you register!). 
   
• If you are looking to learn a little about Photography then you should go ahead and subscribe to David Zisers totally free newsletter. A new edition is just out and you can click here to subscribe. Also check out his blog, Digital ProTalk!
   
• Over at Smashing Magazine, they have today listed 45 more excellent blog themes. They’re some really good themes so if you are into design, it is a very nice read!

» Photoshoot in the Sun

 Today was a portrait photoshoot day with two of my friends as models. We had a blast doing the shots and I have two spontaneous ones to show right now and in my mind I think the spontaneous ones are the ones that usually get the best as well. Anyway I did a couple of shots but it turned out as most a get together and a chance for us to hang out for a while on the holidays and enjoy the nice weather. But check the shots out

       

» Brand New Tripod

If you remember I told you back at new years about my tripod…loss. Or rather the loss of a vital part on my old cheap tripod. So now I got a good excuse to be buying a new tripod which is excacly what I did today because I really did need a new one. I had just decided for the Manfrotto 055XPROB mainly because of a couple of suggestions here from blog readers, other buddies and also from my own searches and looks and so far I think it looks nice although I’ve yet to really try it (gonna do this week though and give you a more detailed report then).

Now you are probably wondering which ballhead I got? That took some more pondering but I decided to go with the Manfrotto 486RC2 with quick release plate. I’m happy with this purchase as well and I think it’ll serve me very well in the future!

» Tuesday Tidbits

 

Nikon is doing the release today, rolling out the brand new Nikon D60 with a 10.2 Megapixel sensor, still no live-view unfortunately (2.5" LCD screen) and an even smaller body than the D40 had. Also releasing are three brand new and exciting lenses, the 16-85 DX VR, the 60 f/2.8 AF-S Micro as well as the most exciting 24 f/3.5 PC-E lens with perspective control on it! Some cool releases by Nikon there today and I guess time will reveal how they operate and I hope I can get to try them out once they are released, at least the body.

Amazing underwater photography!

Today I invite you to check out the amazing underwater photographer, Cos Brosnan. His underwater photos will just blow you away, trust me! I’m still in awe over them! You can also read an interview with Cos over at Photography Corner.

Waiting for your MacBook Air? They might be shipping very soon!

According to Engadget, the shipments of the new MacBook Air’s will begin very soon and the first of them are rumored to be arriving on Februrary 1st! However though, this is if you ordered one right away since you might need to wait a bit longer if you didn’t. Read more »

Read on further in todays second post for the scoop on what WordPress plugins I love and use!

» The key to getting good sunset photos!

When you are browsing through some of the photography communities online you see quite a lot of photographs of sunsets with their photographers wondering why their photographs are not getting the same amount of reaction as others. Most of the time, it has not got anything to do with big trade secrets but actually quite a few simple things you can do to make your sunsets better.

» Landscape Shoot

Finally the two factors, time and weather were booth right so I could finally get some nice shots of a just wonderful sunset (pictured at the left). I’m glad the weather held up as well finally because I’ve been dying to test my new Sigma 10-20 lens (more about it in the post below). I must say it performs very well and I’m very happy with it

» The Monday Stuff

There are a lot of things going on right now and here is a couple of goodies and news and as you see, I’m in for the posting and updating this week

Rumor: Canon releasing new dSLR in late January?

A new rumor has it that Canon will be releasing new cameras and specifically a new dSLR on January 24th, a week before PMA. The rumor has emerged from the Swedish camera magazine, Kamera och Bild’s web edition and the article there can be read here, in Swedish. Now this rumor doesn’t seem that unqualified since it comes right from the VP of Canon Sweden. We’ll just have to stay tuned and see!

Making your own calendars? Check this template out!

I’m making my own calendars for printing to family and friends this year as I did last year and when searching on the web, I found this nice and easy to customize calendar template online that consists of a .psd (Photoshop) file for each month! Complete with dates and all however in the format with Sunday first and Saturday last in the weekdays… Take a look here! My own calendar is not fully ready yet, but I’ll post some photos of it up when it is done!

Print purchases available from my photos!

If you remember me saying a while ago that I won a photograph contest where the prize was a years pro-membership to a website and service called SmugMug, then I can gladly say (and for those of you that don’t recall that as well) that I’ve finally gotten that site fully set-up and I’m uploading new photos and stuff there all the time and I find the site great! So if you want to purchase my prints, just head over to the Bernskiold Photography website and have a look!

Big photography contest coming up!

I know I’ve been saying this for a while now but it is really close to be released right now and it is gonna be huge I tell you! An advise you can get before it is released is to go over the photos you’ve taken this year and narrow out your best (only for this year of 2007)! Now I can confirm though that (if you wasn’t reading this, you wouldn’t know ;)) the contest is coming up in only a couple of hours, so I do really mean that it is close!

» Friday Updates

Here’s coming at you, the late Friday Updates where I first would like to wish all US viewers of my blog a late happy thanksgiving weekend We may not celebrate it here in Sweden, but it is still good use wishing you a happy thanksgiving. After that I’m going to get started on the Friday updates!

First off, on the Creative Suite Tips and Tricks podcast, you’ve got a special thanksgiving episode, released just yesterday. It is about creating a cool three column brochure using InDesign and Photoshop! Also, the Revver upload form is now working (for those of you that don’t know, Revver is the site I use to host my videos) for me, so expect all tutorials I’ve been recording to come flying up! They are being added right now and I’ve added two text tutorials so far today!

Website Tipper - Web Designer Wall

I came across an awesome resource the other day if you are a web designer you have to check out the Web Designer Wall website. Created by the awesome and talented Nick La of N-Design Studio, Web Designer Wall is the most awesome site to get some tutorials, discussions and just in general keep up with the latest trends in the design area!

Engadget hosting major Black Friday give aways!

If you head over to the tech blog, Engadget you’ll see them hosting a lot of major and big give aways on cool gadgets and stuff for free! They’re holding these as contests and all you basically have to do is leave them a comment!

Im in a contest voting!

I was very kindly nominated for the Photograph of the Month award for December at the Photography Corner website. Now it is up to their community to vote for the best of the 14 nominees! Keep your fingers crossed!

Have a wonderful weekend!

I’m hoping for some nice photo opportunities this weekend so I’m going to end by wishing you a very wonderful weekend! Enjoy the time off, I know I sure will!

» Moon Photograph

Sitting at my desk doing some different work I look out of my window and see a very beautiful, full moon (if not full, very close to full) and well I thought I’d better try and shoot it. Pretty happy with the result which is shown above.  I shot it with my Nikon D50 and the 70-300 f/4-5.6 APO DG Sigma lens. Enjoy the moon shot in a kinda eerie feeling for upcoming halloween.

» Tuesday Rockin’

Here is the wonderful news coming at you this rockin’ wonderful Tuesday! First off, we have a new episode of the Photoshop User TV, produced by the folks at NAPP, it’s their 102nd one! So go and check it out right here!

Scott Kelby “Seven Point System” book!

The magnificent Scott Kelby has announced a new book that appears to become really smashing! It’s called “The Photoshop Seven-Point System” and, well, everyone that has read the draft says it’ll be just awesome. Scott has posted a video preview on his blog, so take a look at that here. At least I have already pre-ordered it!

Creative Suite Tips & Tricks Podcast on iTunes!

Yep, my Creative Suite Tips & Tricks Podcast is now online at iTunes and you can check it out at the links here.
iTunes | Website

Another award won!

I’m feeling happy still because I signed on today at the forums on the NAPP site only to see a thread congratulating me to another Editors Choice. Last time it was Image of the Week and this time it was Editors Choice! I’m really honored! Oh, and it is the picture on the left of this post

That’s it for the news right now! I’ll see you back with more cool things later on!