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YPS Blog Downtime

Yanik — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:35:57 +0000

It had to happen at some point….. roughly 3 days ago Yanik’s Photo School got a bug. The only page you could access was the index page. All other links were corrupted.

The thing is that I was on a shoot and then went directly out of town for the weekend none the wiser. Boy was I surprised when I accessed YPS on Saturday to find out it was down! PANIC! I tried installing a backup… nothing. I tried re-posting some content…. nothing. I googled far and wide in cyber space to find any hint… nothing. I called my server to see if they had done something… nope.

It was only today that I finally found out what had happened. The htacces file had vanished. How and why is still a mystery since I hadn’t touched YPS before the event. The happy thing is that all is back in order!

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New Tutorials Coming Soon on YPS!

Yanik — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:42:44 +0000

Hello fellow photography enthusiast readers! It’s been close to two weeks since my latest post but I’m still here! I still haven’t figured out how to clone myself and the higher powers that may be have yet to increase the number of hours in a day. Lucky for me, I’m super busy with my photography business but at the same time this means a bit less time goes to Yanik’s Photo School.

For those of you wondering, YPS is still alive and kicking and I promise you new tutorials very soon. I have a couple in the works and I just have to get around finishing them up for you. I even created some cool Lightroom presets for you to download!

So hang in there and remember that patience is a virtue. The next tutorial will be coming your way before the end of the month. Scout’s honor! Until then, follow me on Twitter so that you can enjoy my daily iPhone photos as well as my RTs that feature photography learning links!

Until then, have a laugh (or a cry) by watching me make an a$$ of myself with my application to the Greatest Job in the World.

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A Month in Greece With My Nikon D300s

Yanik — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:00:54 +0000

Ahhhhh…. Greece. I still dream about its beauty. I’ve been back from my 1 month escapade for a little while now but I’ve been busy learning Adobe Premiere’s basics to put this little video up for you guys.

The lesson I have for you today is simple. Keep exploring means to develop your creativity and you’ll grow both personally and professionally. That’s what I’m doing right now with video and video editing. Like you guys stopping over here on YPS to pick up some tutorials and tips on photography, I’m hunting for the best video editing sites with my student cap on. I know that down the line, having fun with video will be great for my business but that’s not the main reason why I do it. I do it to explore new creative venues of expression.

If I look back on my life, I can go as far back to the age of 7 when I got my first musical instrument: a $10 plastic recorder. Man I loved that thing! In high school, I started writing poetry and lyrics. Then I tried my hands at oil painting throughout university. After that it was a guitar. And then photography, never thinking for 1 second when I purchased my Nikon Coolpix 4500 that it would define my professional life and, to a certain degree, my personal life.

You never know where your creativity will take you! So open that box and take that first step out of it!

You can see that I pulled all the stops in this montage. From video to stop motion to HDR stills. I really had fun doing all of this in Greece.

I hope you enjoy it! And if you missed my iPhone photo montage of Greece, you can check it out here.

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1 Month in Greece with my iPhone

Yanik — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:47:11 +0000

As most of you know, I island hopped through Greece for 31 days and got back about a few weeks ago. I had a blast! The weather was perfect, the water was turquoise, the food was delectable and the Greeks were super friendly.

I also took some awesome shots and some video as well with the D300s. I took over 2500 photos and I just finish my 1st round of selections and narrowed it down to roughly 450. I’ll be making a video clip for you guys in the next few weeks so I’ll have to trim tons of images to bring it down to roughly 60-70. Ouch! I got my work cut out for me!

If you’ve been following me on Twitter through my Greek adventures, you know that I had my trusty iPhone 3G with me and I gave you a daily visual play by play of my trip. I thought I’d make a little slide show with my top iPhone shots for you guys. And for those of you who weren’t following me on Twitter, this slide show will give you an idea of where I’ve been.

For the iPhone app geeks out there (like me!), here are the apps I used to tweak my photos: Best Camera, Photoforge, TiltShift, CameraBag, Pano and FotoTimer.

Before you view the slide show, here are my top 5 favorite iPhone shots.

Here’s the slide show! Enjoy!

Have you traveled with your iPhone this summer? Show us your best iPhone travel shots and share with us which apps you used! Post the links in the comments.

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And the YPS Scholardship Award goes to…..

Yanik — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:25:17 +0000

It was a fun week getting hundreds and hundreds of tweets to win the YPS Scholarship Award sponsored by Kelby Training. Some of you even tried your power of persuasion by adding words like “pick me!” or “I need this”. It made me smile but unfortunately a random draw is just that, random.

Some of you actually managed to not enter correctly by RTing someone else’s entry… tss, tss, tss… you gotta follow the rules! And guess what? The first winner that I picked got disqualified because they weren’t following me on Twitter. The rules were clear. You have to follow me on Twitter AND tweet the supplied tweet. Oh well. But I am happy to report that almost all of you did it right and were entered!

So… who’s the lucky winner? Drum roll please………… drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…. openning up the golden envelope….. And the winner is…. @ericwashburn ! Congratulations! You just won the YPS Scholarship Award!

Please help me congratulate him!

Don’t be sad if you didn’t win this time around. The next contest will be in roughly 6 months from now. And with X-mas just around the corner you could ask for your 1 year membership to Kelby Training! What a great gift!

Once again, congrats @ericwashburn! Enjoy your scholarship!

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