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You can find all of the XEQUALS presets in the presets section of their web site.

Enter lenshoods.co.uk/. This site has free(!) PDF documents that you can download and print to ues as templates to make your own lens hood for any one of a number of lenses (the Canon listing alone is over 50 lenses).

Macro Photography Presentation Notes (PDF)

Macro Photography Powerpoint Presentation (annotated) (32MB PDF)

at the Creative Alliance, Saturday, October 4, 2-4:30 pm.

Early reg ($20, $15 mbrs; Late reg $30, $25 mbrs.)

Join MLA attorney Mike Yang, UMBC Curator Tom Beck, and photographer Jefferson Steele for a wide-ranging discussion on the art and business of photography. Learn how to protect your work through contract and copyright. Get a working photographer’s perspective on the business of photography and a curator’s perspective on the art of photography, including the recent controversy over renowned photojournalist A. Audrey Bodine not being included in the BMA’s exhibition “Looking Through the Lens.”

Question and answer to follow.

Tickets available at www.creativealliance.org

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In addition, Picture Styles store can contain custom white balance and color correction information. While this data can be adjusted in the camera as well, the user interface is not as intuitive as it could be. Fortunately, Canon’s programmers realized this, and created the Picture Style Editor program. This program allows you to create your own picture styles and save them to one of the user presets in your camera. You may also load them using the Digital Photo Pro RAW converter software.

Now’s probably a good time to mention that Picture Styles affect JPEG files such that, once applied, it’s a permanent part of the file. If you shoot RAW files, the picture style information is stored as part of the the meta-data. If you process your RAW files using Digital Photo Pro, Picture Styles will be applied as you process the file. And, if you decide that a different style should have been applied, you can change it before outputting the file. As of this time, there are no third-party RAW converters that allow this!

Canon has a great web site that’s dedicated to Picture Styles: http://web.canon.jp/imaging/picturestyle/index.html

From this site, you can learn more about how Picture Styles work, and you can download at least seven new styles developed by top Canon photographers.

Entrance to the caves in Pindaya, the Southern Shan Province

There is no other country in Southeast Asia with the combination of natural beauty and wonderful people as Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. The country was closed to much tourism to relatively recently and the greatest proportion of tourists in-country now are, in descending order of quantity, Chinese (they share a common border and are allies and trading partners), day-tourists who come over the border at Mae Sot in Thailand and organized luxury bus tours.  The repressive military government has impacted the travel infrastructure which is primitive and in poor repair. Although travelers are not at risk from the government, the terrible roads, ancient public buses and idiosyncratic airplane schedules, make solo travel at once difficult and yet more interesting. Lewis Lorton spent the entire allowable 27 days in Myanmar traveling by bus, boat, train, plane, truck-bus, oxcart and even hitched a ride on a rice truck when a bus broke down. During this 27 days, he met a good selection of Myanmar peoples - Chinese hotel-keepers in league with the government, the genteel daughter of a drug lord, a political dissident who had been exiled to a small town, Ghurka refugees from Nepal without papers, merchants and a whole host of wonderful, real people. 

This photo presentation will illustrate the tourist high spots for independent travelers in Myanmar - Yangon (formerly Rangoon), Inle Lake, Mandalay, Kalaw, Mt. Popa and the unmatchable Bagan. The ancient city of Bagan was the capital of several ancient kingdoms and is now composed of hundreds of Buddhist temples scattered across a dry plain on the eastern bank of the Ayeyerwaddy River. It is a center of the Buddhist religion and a incomparably beautiful place.

Besides Myanmar, Lew  has traveled to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.  His latest trip to Asia was in 2007when he spent 5 weeks in Northern Laos, going as far north as Muang Sing on the border of China. He is a devotee of independent travel because it is more fun, more relaxing and much, much cheaper. Lew travels with a Lowepro camera bag and a single small backpack; he hopes to return to SEA soon leading a group of photographers traveling in the independent style.