SmileOnMyMac Blog

We spend a lot of time with our MacBooks on this cruise. A close second for favorite geek toy is the camera. I think there are a few reasons for this:

1) A good portion of the conference is devoted to photography-related subjects. Lesa King has given several sessions on how to take the best pictures and then make them even better in Photoshop. Josamir King has introduced us to the finer points of iPhoto, iMovie and Aperture. Randal Schwartz’s talk “How to Handle 1000 Photos a Day (and Publish 300 of Them)” was especially welcome after spending a day in Egypt at the Pyramids and camel-riding.

2) The subject matter is captivating. The desert light. The colorful food. The infinite number of geometric angles of the ship itself.

3) There’s so much geek fun to be had in Photoshop.

I’m one of the more modest photographers with my Canon Powershot. According to iPhoto, I’ve only taken 407 photo since I left on this trip. You can check out the good ones at Flickr in my MacMania group, and find others by searching on the tag #macmania8.

Here’s a little sample of what I’m talking about

A shot of the Costa Atlantic bow, docked in Marmaris, Turkey:

Same shot using 3 different Photoshop adjustment layers on selected areas of the image to correct the lighting and color:

Costa Atlantica smokestack. The ship offers incredible composition possibilities:

Upper deck, lonely waiter, clock in foreground:

Hookahs in Marmaris:

Turkish lamps:

Apparently, one of my favorite subjects is other photographers. That’s David Pogue shooting me shooting him during our wild jeep ride in the Sahara:

Tags: macmania

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