Pentax K10 Test Shots

I had the oportunity to test out the Pentax K10 this last week. I used it during a family trip to Oceanside. Here are a few of my test shots. I really enjoyed the camera. It has nice controls and is pretty easy to understand. I think I only had a few shots out of hundreds that didn't turn out. The high ISO shots also really looked nice (some noise but not bad).

favorite filter

I thought I would show you my favorite filter in Photoshop. It’s called LucisArt. If you have been living under a rock for the past year, you haven’t seen this latest trend in imagery. I had heard somewhere that LucisArt was developed to use on crime scene photos to bring out more detail in the subject they are viewing. I’m not certain if that is true but after playing around a bit with the filter I can see why that could be true. There are ways to achieve this look without the filter but it includes a lot of steps and a little bit of trial and error. The LucisArt filter takes all the tedious steps and simplifies it into moving a few slide bars. I’ve attached a few my images I’ve used the filter on. To see more, you can visit the LucisArt website at http://www.lucisart.com.

First of many...

Well, I was so tired of seeing this blog sit empty, I had to do something. So, I've made it a goal of mine to post something at least once a week. I had originally started a family blog but apparently I wasn't updating that enough with things that other family/friends were interested in. So, I began this new blog. If you stumbled upon this page thinking it was our family blog. Check the "my links" section in the sidebar and view "The Hog".

As for this blog, I would like for it to be more focused on the latest in design trends, photography, software, impressive websites or whatever I may bang my creative funny bone on.


On Thursday I had the opportunity to attend the Photoshop CS3 for Photographers seminar. This was the the fifth Kelby Training seminar I’ve been to. This seminar was instructed by Ben Willmore and it was great….very informative! Anyway, while we were there, one of the booths was displaying the Wacom Cintiq 20wsx. After seeing that I’m not sure how I’m going to be able to work on my 6x8 Wacom. I’ve got to start saving my pennies. These bad boys go for $2,000…Ouch.! You can see it in all it's glory at
http://www.wacom.com/cintiq/index.cfm