I did a pre-conference workshop at Photoshop World in Atlanta last week. It still comes to an amazing surprise to photographers and designers that you can actually use Photoshop to produce short videos and slideshows. It’s not trying to be Premiere – but you can actually do some cool stuff with it.

To put it to the test, we went through some sample footage I took of Jenn Bontempi Concepcion when we were out at JADE MOUNTAIN ST LUCIA with Joe McNally – It come out pretty decent for last minute!

http://youtu.be/CeDoUim7Qxo

(psst: want to join us at the Jade Mountain workshop this September? Go here: http://bit.ly/jmsl2014 )

While in the caverns, I made this shot of an area called Dream Lake.  A lake *inside* the caverns, way below the earth.  Just a very trippy experience.

This was shot on the 5DMKIII – and is very disconcerting unless you are looking at it big.  Make sure you click on the picture to see it full screen.

Id imagine thats what I would want me home to be like…. if I were like all alone or something…

(this is one you may want to click on to see bigger.. lots o busy)

After Photoshop World and a quick one day stop in Washington DC for my Photoshop for Photographers tour, I was offered a chance by my friend Charles King to go on a one on one tour of Luray Caverns in Virginia.  A quick 2 hour drive, we were descending 187 below the earths surface to check out the worlds largest natural musical instrument – The Great Stalacpipe Organ.  I thought to myself, “A Cavern? Under the Earth? and an Organ?  My inner Batman-Meets-Hans Zimmer image is complete!”

Truth be told, my fascination came from many many years ago. When I was in school, I was very impressed and inspired by 18th and  19th century stuff.  I enjoyed very much the work of Gustav Dore- specifially his illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy. As I walked down further into the cavern, I couldnt help but hear Pergelosi’s Stabat Mater  ringing in my head (link: http://youtu.be/h9ZET0kU9qs ) .  I made many frames of the caverns – but I just wanted to get to the organ to try for a shot.

This was shot with the Canon 5D Mark III on a 16-35 lens. To get the light in front of me as a silhouette we used a 600EX with a ST-E3-RT on the camera.

I really like the yellows and orange in the shot, but I think this is going to be one of those that I am going to make for myself for as a black and white.  A big thanks to Charles and the folks at Luray Caverns for the opportunity to get an image out of my head onto paper.  I really appreciate it!

Im sitting here at the Atlanta airport post #Photoshop world – headed to my next stop : the Photoshop for Photographers seminar tour in Washington, DC.  If you are not doing anything tomorrow April 11, you should totally come out and join me there.   If you’re out tonight, you may even find me roaming around trying to find a cool night #Photography spot to shoot!

For more information, check out the link here:  http://kelbyone.com/live/event/137956/