Currently Reading

Posted on September 14th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Personal, Blogroll, Funny, Family, Currently Reading.


Keep an eye on the ‘Blogroll’ to the right where I post my current books (if you are interested in that sort of stuff). It’s usually a pretty fun, eclectic collection!
I’m reading the book above with Colin. It’s full of short, odd, stories from history (like about the first subway in NYC being a hidden pneumatic tube… or ‘Mike the Headless Chicken’)


Lisa and I read Cold Comfort Farm when we are making cinnamon rolls on Friday eves… hey, and that’s tonight! We saw the movie first and loved it. I always describe it as Monty Python dropped into the middle of Wuthering Heights… you aren’t sure at first how to take the dry humor and then it just sweeps you away.


Lydia and I continue in the prequils to the Little House books…. This is about LE Wilder’s Grandmother growing up in Boston. We’ve been working our way back, so it’s fun to see one girl’s life with her adult Mom, then go back a generation and see when Mom was a little girl. They do a nice job weaving it all together. We are reading ‘On Tide Mill Lane‘ now.

So if you are looking for something fun to read, or just want to topic of conversation the next time you see us… check out the Blogroll for what we’re reading!

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Instant Alpha Rocks

Posted on September 14th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Apple, Teaching, OSX.


Apple introduced a super easy way to do knockouts for your Keynote presentations… you just click once or twice on the background color you want to remove and it knocks it out to transparent… sweet, fast, elegant… very Apple.

Keynote is Apple’s presentation software, like PowerPoint (insert your snotty pro-Mac comment here).

In the photo above, the white boxed image is how all of the photos started.. note the top photo being layed over text. And you can then add beautiful drop shadows from the object or reflections.

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Learn with Ken: Cameras, Workflow, Photoshop

Posted on September 14th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Personal, Skills, Equipment, Photo, Teaching, PhotoJava, Photoshop.

Here’s what’s next if you enjoy learning from Ken… These classes are great—you don’t have to leave the office, just use the ‘net and take an hour to update your skills.

Through the Eli Research Audio Educator system, I’m teaching 3 classes:

Digital Camera Class (What to buy, what features matter, how to save money… everything for buying and understanding the important features of digital cameras)
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 **Next Wednesday!
11:00 am ET
Info and signup HERE

(We’ll cover important tips… like taking your lens cap off ;-)

Digital Workflow Class (What to do with all of those photos you have! Find them fast, keep it simple and safe with backups, etc)
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
11:00 am ET
Info and signup HERE

Next Step in Photoshop (The distilled tips I have for working on photos)
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
1 pm ET
e-mail me for info… it’s not online yet.

•••Discount for Clients•••
I was able to get the Audio Educator folks to give my clients a $20 discount.
Please contact me if you are a client and I’ll send you the code.

Also, the prices are per location—you use a speakerphone for the audio and then watch on the internet… so if you have several people attending, or your whole office, it’s a pretty good deal. And I do a Q&A at the end, so you can ask your questions live.

Please shout with questions!

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Great Wedding & Portrait Site

Posted on September 14th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Skills, Photo, Teaching, PhotoJava, Photoshop.

Jess Strickland is an amazing shooter and friends with Gary Fong (she just shot Gary’s wedding).
Check out her site for a few things:
Beautiful presentation
Great shots
Her ’special sauce’ the get the saturated, contrasty look in photos
and she’s just plain nice…
Her site is HERE

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