Image selected for PCNW Long Shot notecards
Ante Rush, 5:46 a.m.

Ante Rush, 5:46 a.m.

My image Ante Rush, 5:46 a.m. has been selected to be part of a set of images printed on note cards for sale as part of the Long Shot group exhibition at Photo Center NW. Pick one up on June 4, 2010 by coming to the preview at 4 p.m. or during the free party from 6 p.m. to midnight! When you buy this notecard, all proceeds will go to support the Photo Center NW school and its programs.

Long Shot is a 24-hour photo fundraiser, which is why this image was taken so early in the morning. Over 180 photographers around the world shot images in support of Photo Center NW, and on June 4 you’ll be able to see and buy prints of many of the images we shot throughout those 24 hours. Get there early if you want the best selection of affordable art at the show.

You can also support PCNW without buying a print; simply donate directly to Long Shot by entering my name as the Long Shot photographer you’re sponsoring on the PCNW donation form.

For more information, see the Long Shot blog and the Photo Center NW web site.

PCNW is at 900 12th Avenue (corner of 12th Ave and E Marion St) in Seattle.

See you there on June 4!

Print on display: Photo Center NW Long Shot exhibition
Dead of Night, 4:55 a.m.

Dead of Night, 4:55 a.m.

My image Dead of Night, 4:55 a.m. will be on display as part of the Long Shot group exhibition at Photo Center NW. Check it out up close on June 4, 2010 by coming to the preview at 4 p.m. or during the free party from 6 p.m. to midnight! If you buy this framed print, all proceeds will go to support the Photo Center NW school and its programs.

Long Shot is a 24-hour photo fundraiser, which is why this image was taken in the middle of the night. Over 180 photographers around the world shot images in support of Photo Center NW, and on June 4 you’ll be able to see and buy prints of many of the images we shot throughout those 24 hours. Get there early if you want the best selection of affordable art at the show.

You can also support PCNW without buying a print; simply donate directly to Long Shot by entering my name as the Long Shot photographer you’re sponsoring on the PCNW donation form.

For more information, see the Long Shot blog and the Photo Center NW web site.

PCNW is at 900 12th Avenue (corner of 12th Ave and E Marion St) in Seattle.

See you there on June 4!

Adobe Creative Suite 5 launch event on April 12, 2010

Adobe has announced that there will be a web launch event introducing Adobe Creative Suite 5 on April 12, 2010. The launch page contains several preview videos of new features and workflows.

The event is also billed as a “first look,” so don’t expect the software to be available right away.

See the launch event page at:
http://cs5launch.adobe.com/

Daylight Saving Time: Remember your cameras!

When you change your clocks for Daylight Savings time, remember to shift your cameras by one hour too! It’s easy to forget since our computers and phones adjust to DST automatically. Until our still and video cameras do that too, we’ll have to remember to change their time settings manually.

The capture date and time recorded in a photograph is increasingly important. In the era of film it never affected very much except for people who liked to print the date on their snapshots. Today, the capture date/time affects whether images can sort properly by time. With one camera it’s no big deal, but if your business or family has multiple cameras that are not all set to the correct time, your software can’t sort the photos from all those cameras in chronological order. You may not think you have more than one camera, but for example, if you like to shoot with both your SLR and the camera on your phone, you might want to to put photos from both cameras together and have them successfully sort in chronological order.

Capture time errors don’t affect just the photos on your computer, but the copies of those photos that you upload to online services such as Flickr which let you navigate your photos by time. Of course, a one-hour DST error isn’t much, but it can affect you if you’re trying to pinpoint the time a photo was taken compared to the time of an event. In any case, the point is to remember your cameras when you go through any time change: DST, passing through time zones when traveling, and so on.

Facebook: Image sizes are changing

If the number 604 is stuck in your head as the maximum size of an image that Facebook will display, it’s time to reprogram your brain (and maybe your Photoshop actions/Lightroom presets for Facebook, too). The Inside Facebook blog reports that the maximum photo dimension on Facebook is going up to 720 pixels on a side, but the maximum size of profile pictures is going down to 180 x 540 pixels.

This feature is being rolled out gradually, so you might not see it right away.

If you already uploaded photos and want them bigger, those probably won’t change. Since Facebook has no way that I know of to replace photos, the only way to make photos in an existing gallery bigger is probably to trash all the existing photos and upload them again, losing existing comments, Likes, and (probably) links in the process.

Update, 2011: Facebook has increased the displayed image size once again; images can now be displayed up to 960 pixels on a side. Note that if you upload an image larger than this, visitors can click a Facebook page’s Download link to retrieve the image at the full original size you uploaded. Images you upload should always be no bigger than the size at which you’re comfortable having visitors download them. For example, if you don’t want your images to be out in the world at a size bigger than 800 pixels on a side, make sure you limit the image size of the pictures to 800px on a side or smaller before you upload them to Facebook.