Recently, my gym, Urban Active Fitness was taken over by LA Fitness. I wondered what changes would transpire, and hoped they wouldn’t do anything drastic like get rid of existing people working there and bring in new people from other areas….so far we’re good there. You know how I feel about supporting the local economy! One thing I notice so far is they are more interactive about promoting training and fitness / wellness education. They have TV’s in the gym that have tips displaying on the screen, and are social media active with different health and nutrition tips, which is nice. This is something everyone can use. Many busy people don’t have hours a day to go to the gym like the meatheads do, LOL….but more rather the average person’s goals are toning and flexibility, and cardiovascular….and weight loss / maintain a healthy weight, etc. All of which can be done with 30-45 minute a day workouts 3-4 times a week. Also there will be classes and volleyball teams, etc. which I look forward to. There is some great basic fitness information and advice as well as nutritional tips on the blog I will share with you. Geared towards the health conscious, busy everyday person. Enjoy in the new year, time to undo holiday damage and create a positive improvement in your life http://blog.lafitness.com/

Benefits of exercise and being health minded are better stamina, less chance of injury, reverse aging effects, weight management, and overall more self confidence and positive outlook. Overall better energy and better productivity in all you do. I hope you enjoy the blog whether you are a gym member or not. May 2013 be a happy and healthy new year for you!!

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I hope all of you have had a great Memorial Day weekend! I’m back like a case of chronic clap, LOL! People have asked me my workflow process, and I have compared notes with others. I keep it simple. I have yet to use Aperture or Lightroom. I use the Macintosh platform, so if any of this sounds Greek, Finder is a similar program to Windows Picture viewer, and folders setup. Only it reads RAW files, without converting. I dump my card to a USB reader, make a folder, and subfolders if needed, and in due process of time, I begin to look through (this is the correct definition of the editing process, NOT retouching. I usually shoot RAW. I then copy the folder on my card and copy into a folder in Finder. Once I’ve taken time, on how ever many occasions it takes, to choose the best images, I open the images I am going to retouch in Photoshop, make any camera RAW adjustments, then open image and do the creative retouches in CS5.Because Finder reads RAW files, and I can proof images there, I really have no need to convert to jpg until saving a final retouched version, one as jpg one as tiff.

I went into specifics in an earlier post about how I edit images, so I won’t repeat that again…..it works for me and is very basic, I think most people do it differently. I really don’t even use Bridge. Of course I immediately backup immediately, and backup again once I have finished images, this I will repeat many times, I can’t stress how important it is