I get notions, and they stay with me. One has been, for a while now, to come up with a decent portrait of Russell Brown, the wonderfully mad genius of Photoshop. Dr. Brown, as he is sometimes called, is a visual guru who combines the madcap energy of The Absent Minded Professor with an extraordinary […]

LIFE is strange, right? And wonderful.  It is, “Life Its Own Self,” as Dan Jenkins once famously wrote. I shot my first job for the venerable picture magazine that was once everybody’s TV in 1984. Became a staff photographer in 1994. Last one in a series of 90 staffers. Now, 26 years after my first […]

Hey gang…couple of questions from yesterday. The combo of the 600 plus TC1.7 was, frankly, all about, uh, size. Bigger lens, bigger moon. The above is shot with a straight up six. Below, I’m at about 170 zoom on a 70-200. Figured we’re all up here in north country, howlin’ at the moon, so might as […]

Hey everyone, Brad here again with some more shots from the first day of Photoshop World Las Vegas. Images from the opening Keynote, various events throughout the day, and the After Hours Party at House of Blues (photos by Josh Bradley, Drew Gurian, and myself): RC Concepcion getting the crowd to their feet with a t-shirt […]

Hey gang, Brad here with a quick bit of news on David Ziser’s Captured By The Light 2010 Tour. David is kicking the tour off in just a few days in Phoenix on September 7, then heading to Dallas, Houston, Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver, and a bunch of other cities between now and November 4. During the […]

Brad here with some shots from yesterday’s Photoshop World pre-conference day. Hope you enjoy! Tony Llanes performs during the Real World Concert Photography class. (Photo by Josh Bradley) Tony Llanes and Scott Diussa perform during the Real World Concert Photography class. (Photo by Josh Bradley) Scott Kelby, Felix Nelson, and Scott Stahley (drums) perform […]

Liquify + Pixel Bender: Nifty. [Via] […]

At Photoshop World this week, performance testing lead Adam Jerugim presented a performance guide with hardware recommendations and information about the CS5 performance preferences.  I’ve put his notes in this post’s extended entry. Operating Systems: Mac OS 10.6.4 and Windows 7 64-bit CPU: Intel Core i7/Xeon or AMD Phenom II/Opteron with 4 cores. More than […]

Heh heh. This is doubly funny as I watch this in a hotel room with the actual Bryan O’Neil Hughes. (Note: Contains some minor nudity & dirty hand gestures, in case that sort of thing offends you.) In case the embedded video doesn’t work for you, here it is on its original page. […]