Master of Light Challenge and my Blog have new homes

The Master of Light Challenge is now back with a new home at www.masterthelight.com where you will find challenge 5 and info on additional prizes.

My blog has also moved to a new home at www.panascape.wordpress.com

Master of Light Re-launch


I had a total disaster this weekend while we were trying to put the final touches on the newsletter when the maintenance crew cut the power to the building for the whole weekend instead of the limited period they had promised us.

I have been trying since early this morning to finish but practically says I will probably only finish late tonight or early tomorrow so in the mean time I have posted some content to wet your appetite.

This is the cover of the newsletter along with some of what you can expect to find in it.

There is also a tip for those using Wacom tablets that I will share with you in the interim.

Anyone who has taken the time to learn how to use a tablet will tell you that this is something that any photographer doing any sort of serious retouching cannot do without.
With a tablet you have a degree of precision that you cannot achieve with a mouse plus you have the added benefit of pressure sensitive support. The problem is that tablets tend to take up a lot of space on your desk leaving little or no space for a keyboard. The solution to this is easy. There are no a variety of flexible keyboards around in a variety of forms and the smallest of these can easily be located at the top edge of the tablet.


What I have done with mine is to build up a small cardboard section the same height as my tablet and place the keyboard so that its overlapping onto the tablet and supported by the cardboard which is taped to the bottom of the tablet.





My only question is why didn’t Wacom think of this?

Master of Light

Hi all contrary to the post on Pix’s website, Master of Light is alive and well, we were just forced to make some very sudden and drastic changes which were a result of Pix’s sudden decision to pull of the challenge.

We were not prepared to just end the challenge and are committed to seeing it through to completion but this mean that running the challenge has fallen wholly on my shoulders and seeing it’s not a paid job, I have had to juggle it amongst my daily workload which has been a bigger challenge than I anticipated and for this I apologise.

We have a firm date of 22 Feb for the re-launch of the challenge newsletter which will go out to all those who have entered in the past plus various mailing lists. If you want to be added to the mailing list, email me on mol@panascape.co.za and I will add you to the challenge main mailing list.

Regards

Robert