I was nearly roasted red when I stood under the hot afternoon sun yesterday to take photographs of fighter planes flying around in the sky. Together with hundreds of photographers, we were all armed with our telephoto lens, trying to “shoot down” the planes with ultra high shutter speed. While many were armed with their big white bazookas, I am just equipped with my little Sony Alpha 200 and a tiny 75-300mm kit lens.

Sony Alpha DSLR A200 was first announced by Sony Corporation during Janurary 2008 this year at CES 2008. Alpha A200 is the direct replacement for the older Alpha A100, which has been in the market for almost 2 years since 2006 after they took over from Konica Minolta.

Another great Photoshop YouTube video by Donnie, MyDamnChannel.

This time round, Donnie was preparing for his long awaited vacation and he was going to insert a hammock into a beach photo until his boss called and cancelled his holiday for an important presentation!

I was looking for ways to create digital backdrops in Photoshop so I am able to simulate a professional studio shot using a normal photo. At first, I keep finding websites that either require me to buy a plugin or buy a EBook. After sometimes, I finally found a YouTube Video by PhotographyBook.net that teaches for free on how to create a digital backdrop in Photoshop.

Today, I will post a very basic skin softening technique, that can be applied on faces of female subjects to give their skin a more smooth look and a touch of glamorous shine. These kind of softening techniques are widely used in the creative industry where you see models with soft and perfect skins in movie posters, advertisements, etc…

If you suck at Photoshop, now you can do better after watching Donnie’s Photoshop Videos! Watching these videos make me realise how fun Photoshop can be! Apart from the funny jokes, these videos do really teach interesting photo editing techniques in Photoshop! If you have not watch these videos before, do watch them now!

You got the latest quad duo core processors fixed onto your motherboard with the fastest bus speed that is available in the market now. You also got a monstorous graphic processing card that have enough power to run your 3D games concurrently over and over again. And you got tons of photos that need some adjustments to them, which will take some couple of light years as you had to do them 1 by 1.