After much pain, sweat, and toil (read: putting off writing the next scene in my WIP), I’ve completely revamped the Pop Books website. If you’re an author in need of site/design work, it’s the place to go.

Pop Color is next up on my redesign list, though I think I should finish my WIP before tackling that.

Photo editing 101

For the photographers out there – interested in how I edit my photos? Well I’m covering some photoshop basics (contrast, dodging & burning) in a webinar on March 28th. It’s part March’s event for the Muse Project. For all of $10, you get to see me in action!

Books and tumbles

I’m the proud winner of SAY THE WORD by Jeannine Garsee! She’s the awesome creator of GRAPEMO, which I’ve had the great pleasure of participating in this month. (We’re hopefully extending the Grapemo deadline a week. If so, maybe I can actually make my PWG.) My teaser was entered into a random drawing, and I won her book! Can’t wait to read it.

On another note, I’m officially in love with Tumblr and have setup my micro blog at feonua.tumblr.com. It’s full of weekly themed quotes, photo snippets and random thoughts. I need more people to follow–so if you have an account there, let me know and I’ll friend you.

Also, if you haven’t read it yet, Brina’s latest addition to Deciduus is beautiful.

Got it. My take on the altF version of painting with light.

Spent five minutes setting up and shooting, so it’s not perfect. But it was way too cold outside for perfection. Especially when your subject is a bear. However I intend to test and develop (ie have fun experimenting with) the technique at the next Muse session.
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John Michael Cooper of altF fame recently posted about his daytime painting with light technique, or “Single Flash Multiple Frame.”

This is a close-up of a larger photo. As you can see, it’s very nice indeed. His images always are. Here he kept the sky dramatic, made noon look like twilight, and added some very nice spot lighting. He’s going to post a how-to on Photographymentor.com. I really want to see it, but Photographymentor costs $105 for six months. If I’m going to spend that kind of money, I’ll buy the new Colorshift actions from Jesh de Rox. (Not that I’m knocking it, from what I hear PM is a great resource.)

But I’m not too worried. I think I can reverse engineer the process. I’m going to try today or tomorrow. Not with people (too cold), but something else. A car or a playground.

In other news, I’m also working on a new set of ps actions.
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