New Images - A Rabbit Named Newbie

The MacMillan portrait session is now online here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanctuaryphoto/

The furry family member in the photos is an 8 year old rabbit named Newbie.


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Pet Portraits Class with Judy Reisman

On Nov 17th, I took a pet portrait class with photographer, Judy Reisman. Here is a link to her website.
http://www.judyreismanphotography.com/
The class was offered through Washington Photo Safari.
Here are a few photos that I took during the class.
Sorry for the duplicate photo. Blogger has an awkward photo upload interface.
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Credit Cards

Sanctuary Studios will be accepting Credit Cards through September & October.

Upcoming Events

Saturday, September 20, 2008
noon - 4pm
AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Day

Location:
K9 Koncepts
6059 Olsen Road
Brooklyn Park, MD 21225
http://www.k9koncepts.com


Additional Info:
This event is being held as part of AKC's
Responsible Dog Ownership Day Events
http://www.akc.org/clubs/rdod/index.cfm

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Saturday, October 4, 2008
10am-5pm
Pets on Wheels 3rd Annual Dog-a-thon
http://petsonwheels.org/

Location:
Oregon Ridge Park - (in one of the pavilions near The Lodge)
Beaver Dam Road
Cockeysville, MD 21030
http://www.baltimorecountymd.gov/Agencies/recreation/countyparks/oregonridgelodge/index.html

Directions to the Lodge:
1. Take I-695 toward Towson.
2. Take I-83 North (Exit 24).
3. Continue North to Exit 20-B (Shawan Rd. West).
4. At first light make a left. (Beaver Dam Rd.).
5. Follow Beaver Dam Rd. for aprox.1/2 mile.
6. You will see the park entrance on the right.
*The Lodge is the building with the flag in front of it.

Additional Info:
The main activity is a sponsored walk event. The walk is less than a mile.
There is a large parking lot in front of The Lodge.
There is a Honey Festival at the Oregon Ridge Nature Center this same weekend.

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Sunday, October 5, 2008
noon-3pm
The Blessing of the Animals
noon - 3pm

Location:
SS Phillip & James Roman Catholic Church
2801 North Charles St (corner of 28th and Charles)
Baltimore, MD 21218
http://www.geocities.com/stspandj/

Maryland State Fair 2008

The Maryland State Fair photos from August 22, 2008 should be posted on my Flickr site by noon today.

My Flickr Site

More info on the Maryland State Fair

Using Costco's Photo Lab

I like to use the Costco Lab for proofing or quick prints, but I like to do my own image corrections. It is not uncommon for the lab to forget and run their corrections anyway. The staff are usually very pleasant about it and they re-print my files right away, but it is an inconvenience. From talking to the staff at some of the different Costco Warehouses in my area, I have learned a few things which I thought I might share with you.

The above image shows what the code on the back of the photo should look like if the lab turned their image correction off. You only need to worry about the part I marked in red.
The sequence code should be:
N N N N---
(four n's and a set of three dashes)

If their image correction was on at the time of printing, the sequence will be:
N N N N NN
(four n's followed by a double n)

I hope this was helpful.

Cool Feature - Automated Crop & Straighten Photos in CS2

This is a really cool feature in Photoshop CS2. (I would think CS3 has it also?)

I was importing album art into iTunes today for old albums that iTunes cannot find artwork for. I remembered this fun feature and wanted to share it with you.

If you have a bunch of old snapshots (or in my case, old CD album covers) that you want to scan, place them on your scanner bed, leaving gaps between each. Scan as usual. When you have the file inside Photoshop goto:
File -> Automate -> Crop and Straighten Photos
This magic feature does what it says, plus it puts each image into a separate file!

Very cool.

It is a bit quick & dirty, though. My scanner auto calibrates to each scan, so leaving a lot of empty space around the images changes the way the files come out. I ran "auto levels" on the files before saving and that worked well enough for what I wanted.