Pictures from my new camera: My kitty-cat Shasta!!

Hi all!

I'm sitting at a school computer right now and just loaded the first pics from my new digital camera's flash drive to it. I spent WAY to much $$ on the camera so I've gone through about 5 days of buyers remorse.

BUT...as I'm seeing it's photos for the first time on a large screen I'm VERY happy to discover the pictures are AMAZING!!!!! : )

I did a ton of research before I bought this camera and one of the things everyone said in their reviews was that this camera does extremely well is shooting in low light. And it DOES!!

When I first opened the box and put the lens on, I was sitting in my family room and basically started snapping shot after shot from where I sat. I don't have a flash yet...and the only light was coming from the fluorescent over-head lights in the kitchen.

My cat, Shasta, made a handy model and these are from about the first 10 to 20 images I shot, and other than cropping on the one below it's any Photoshop magic. It was also shot in jpeg which is apparently the default image format for the camera. The best quality is RAW format...and those pics look even better!

Anyway...here's' my little girl doing what she does best: Lookin' fantastic! : )




Thanks for looking in...comments on this or any of my blog posts are always welcome.

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Photo: Copyright 2010, Jeff Curtis, All Rights Reserved

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The story behind my new Sketchbook Pro and Wacom Tablet digital painting.

If you're an artist you've probably heard about the ConceptArt.org forum. It attracts some very gifted artists from all over the world.

It can be a little intimidating to post your work there, but I began to see thread after thread where artists had asked for critiques and worked hard at the ideas they were given...and over a period of months and/or years you can slowly begin to see VAST improvements in their work.

Other times someone will post for a long time...and then all of a sudden they rapidly improve...often making huge leaps in their abilities.

The section most people begin posting in is called the Sketchbook forum. The idea is that you post what you're working on...and that can vary from very rough sketches to completed projects.

With all that in mind I began my own ConceptArt.org sketchbook and have aleady begun to get some good feedback and advice.

One thing I heard over and over right away was that colors in my digital images are sometimes too saturated. One person even called them "violent". : )

So I took most suggestions to heart and created the following digital painting from a "real world" sketchbook drawing I did last summer.

Here's my original sketch (click to enlarge):



And now my digital painting of it (click to enlarge):


I'd love to get feedback here too...so let me know what you think!

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Created using Sketchbook Pro and my trusty Wacom Intuos tablet.

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Images: Copyright 2010, Jeff Curtis, All Rights Reserved

Please visit my site for more examples of my art:

JeffCurtisArt

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