Blog Entry
Photocamp presentation
Well, this took me slightly longer to put up than I thought it would. I was pretty short on sleep last night and needed some time to take a nap, collect my thoughts, and finish some touch-up on the slides for my talk at PhotoCamp.
Speaking of my slides slides, there's a special deal at the moment: 2 talks for the price of one. We were short on time, so I didn't have the chance to get into any of my notes on high dynamic range (HDR) photography. In addition to the slides I had covering color photography for the web, I cleaned up the HDR slides and included them, figuring someone might find some use in them. In those slides, I mention a lot of different software, all of which you can find under my hdr tag on del.icio.us.
All in all, I think the session went quite well. Kris got stuff off on the right foot, and all those that presented had very informative talks. Roland gave a quick overview of the features in the newly-released Adobe Lightroom, Warwick had a very informative overview of the workflow of a professional photographer that has to work through a lot of photos, while Dave Olson gave some good tips for taking good macro and product shots on a budget. Tim Bray gave a very useful overview of high-end pocket cams, something I am currently in the market for. Finally, in my opinion, I think the field trip afterwards to see the HDR display was well-received.
The only disappointment was that even though we booked up 2 slots for it, we made it through about 50% of the content we planned on. I ditched on of my topics (though I admittedly had more than I should have), and we didn't get to any of the audience-suggested topics. People also kind of trickled out after seeing the HDR display and dispersed before any motion was made to have a photowalk. Some of that could have been fixed with better organization, but a lot of it simply required a bigger block of time. The comment that we really need to dedicate a whole day to PhotoCamp really rings true. I know Thomas Hawk already mentioned something like this, but Vancouver seems to have a pretty strong lineup to hold one itself.