Tonight the harbor outside my hotel balcony is shrouded in fog.
And I imagine a loved one is out there. Someone I trust. And as she (I tend to trust women) materializes, it’s clear something is different. At first, it’s terrifying. (Your eyes. Is that blood dripping from your teeth?) As I come to accept, we talk. The conversation is naturally difficult. Tears are shed. But, as these things go with vampires, I am eventually made to yield.
Meanwhile (as I understand it, the venom takes several minutes to set in), I shot this image at an ISO of 100. You photographers can set me straight if I’m wrong, but I wanted a noiseless image.
Alas, this for now is what passes as my Tuesday post. Please tell me, oh vampiric readers of this blog, what do you think I should be doing with my Tuesdays? I and my team have ideas, but we’re curious for yours, don’cha know.
It’s a topic you can sink your teeth into.
You are definitely one
You are definitely one Seriously Dark and Twisted Romantic!
Scenario for next Tuesday:
As you begin to swoon from my venom, your face softens and fills with need. I bend over you, looking intently, penetratingly into your eyes and softly growl…
“Now, about this multichannel image thing….”
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I just finished my umpteenth viewing of the first two Underworld films, tonight. Does it show?
I suppose how you should spend your Tuesdays with a vampire largely depends on how dessicated you want to be on Wednesday.
I do envy you this Tuesday’s view, by the way.
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No FAIR!
You edited while I was responding! (The more parsimonious version is the hotter one.)
I re-parsimonified things
Seriously, gotta say, hottest multichannel question ever.
Work flow
Deke,
We all have our own ways of doing things but I would love to hear your thoughts on overall work flow, the new Mini-Bridge and the relative merits, if any, of using Lightroom.
Bob (in the UK)
mini bridge
I have always tried to find a way to use bridge since the release of LR, it seems such a cool program but with no real use.
One cool use I have found for mini bridge is to use it for my ‘stock’ pics.
All my textures, skies and frames all there to browse through in a little panel. At last, a use for bridge!
Dekes tuesdays
RE:what do you think I should be doing with my Tuesdays?
Vlad you aked..
‘Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It’s fun to be a vampire’..
That was the tagline for the cult classic The Lost Boys , and if ya old enough like myself to remember it, what a classic it was with the late Corey Haim and a cool soundtrack that set that dark tone for the movie..maybe a tad cheesey watching it bk now lol, but when to a 11 yr old kid was the muts nuts bk in the day;)
When i saw your photo Deke it reminded me of that foggy boardwalk in santa carla, where there was the drinking blood from a wine bottle initiations and other blood sucking crazyiness etc.
What you do with your tuesdays is entirely up to you, cover yaself or your victims in leeches , and wait til them lil’ blighters are several times the size ‘fat full’ of blood, then thro them said leeches into a pan with some butter no garlic ;)
Cover them with chianti and enjoy..
popular in Transylvania my mate Yuri tells me.
As a graphic designer ( and illustrator;) my day to fay workflow almost always involves Indesign as thats where i do my final layout..i do alot vector artwork and alsorts, so photoshop & illustrator are always running.
Maybe to even the balance, some vids & tips on Indesign or Illustrator CS5 on here every week for a while, or jump from one to the other like i do;)
Indesign has that new interactive document animation without a timeline thing
going on, behaviour heirachy.. be good to see if you have any thoughts and tips. How to create a swf slideshow of ya portfolio in Indesign CS5..
that would be good to know..? I have no interest in learning code like many designers i know so this sounds like a cool new feature.
Anyways enough my ramblin ..look forward to whatever u post;O)
CS5 workflow
Love this site, your training and insights, and I’m looking forward to your CS5 videos on Lynda.com. My vote for the next Deke.com series is for a CS5 workflow that uses the strengths of Camera Raw and Photoshop, for a landscape vs portait, with some flaws such as backlight, colour cast and noise. Thanks for this wonderful site!
Tuesdays
About you simply give us a project. I lack some creativity, but I’d love being challenged by the master himself.
Thanks. Sounded like you
were in for a long night of solo Shift-RightBracketing.
Read an earlier draft of your post. Thought I could maybe help steam your window.
Make your Olympus talk
Sart with a fresh RAW file and take it through the steps of optimizing it using CS5 ACR and then finish the processing in Photoshop. I would like to see the processes, settings and order that you would use to add some drama and interest to photographs.
Creativity
Deke, thanks to you and Lynda, we have enough technical references to provide a much more robust curriculum than any undergraduate program could dare. Piece of paper aside, one could certainly attain a high level of technical prowess, thanks to you and the community you belong to. We all appreciat it! What really interests me is your creative side, your approach to design, problem solving and concept building. I know it’s kind of an esoteric request… But, for those of us LEFT brainers out there… Help us tap into our creative side.
Superb
Really interesting and very informative post.
Noise
Depends on the camera. The cleanest ISO on my 5Dmk2 is 160.
Well..
I for one thought that was a part of the purpose for the questions to answer the top 10 contest clues… Nice job with those BTY!
I’ve always considered this more a graphic arts site then one geared to photography… I’d like to see more of the other aspects of Adobe’s suite; as well as how it compares to the competition. If you’re going to throw your weight behind a product, prove its worth lets say… I say what the hell; blow ‘em out of the water. It could be fun.
Start to Finish
I would really like to see some illustrator stuff or some indesign post as well. Alternatively, if you started with a general photo and pulled it through all the steps you would go through to achieve a “professional” and self-pleasing image just to have insight to someone else’s work flow would be highly beneficial. Keep up the good work guys.
Your new series does just that…
After watching several chapters of your new series on CS5 at Lynda.com, I see you have done already what I have suggested here and that is sufficient information on retouching of photos straight out of a camera.
it’s a good series btw. Is there changes to the Deke Keys for CS5?
Tuesdays…
Hi Deke,
I’m completely new in the Design business so I could use some advice and some of your insight into how you got where you are nowadays, and what people like myself (about to be ‘one person web/graphic design business’) should be realistically tasking ourselves to do.
Dawn (Wales, UK)