Category: Technique & Workflow
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Optimizing Exposure
Luminous Landscape: The reason why we want to expose every shot that we take with the data as far to the right of the histogram as possible is because that’s where the data is!
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CA Trip Behind The Scenes Part 3 – Data Management and Workflow
Vincent Laforet: It’s been a busy few weeks so I wanted to throw this up on the blog today as I found a short pause int he schedule. You’ll find a quick overview of our workflow / gear for our travels in the video above, along with a 53 minute look into our Adobe…
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Shooting Twice, at Once
Shooting Twice, at Once Doug Mills has come up with a simple but strangely elegant solution for shooting video and stills simultaneously. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/shooting-twice-at-once/ When shooting stills and video simultaneously, Doug Mills, a staff photographer in the Washington bureau of The New York Times, has tried a creative trick or two. He once…
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Workflow: Adobe Premiere Intro and FCP 7 roundtrip
I thought I’d put a quick little video up on the blog showing how you can roundtrip back and forth between both apps via XML. If you have an FCP 7 project and want to use Premiere or After Effects – you can do so in seconds. If you then want to send…
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Michael McNamara – IN THE BAG
For a quick background, I’m a features photographer at The Arizona Republic in Phoenix. It means that I do most of my work for our features sections (food, fashion, lifestyle) and our monthly glossy magazine AZ Magazine. It’s a very atypical newspaper job, but I really enjoy it. This also means that I’m lighting more…
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On Watermarks and Signatures
Earlier today I caught myself unfollowing someone on 500px because I clicked through on their photo
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Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow | dpBestflow
dpBestflow® is the new guide for every aspect of digital imaging technology from ASMP, the leader in education for the professional photographer. Link: Welcome | Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow | dpBestflow
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The Three Biggest Mistakes Amateur Photographers Make
The Three Biggest Mistakes Amateur Photographers Make I don’t usually take to the bully pulpit to either disagree with or amplify something Ctein has written—his column, his topic, his bailiwick—but it seems to me that the insight in his most recent column could be extended to two… via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/05/three-biggest-mistakes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+typepad/ZSjz The unifying theme…
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In-depth B&W conversion video
In-depth B&W conversion video Speaking of old friends, former Lightroom evangelist/PM George Jardine has posted a free 37-minute video that dives deeply into black & white conversion. He writes, In this video, I start by ta… via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2011/05/in-depth-bw-conversion-video.html former Lightroom evangelist/PM George Jardine has posted a free 37-minute video that dives deeply…
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Video: Lasers Show Up Wobbly Camera Mirrors
Video: Lasers Show Up Wobbly Camera Mirrors You know when you read that you should use a tripod to get the sharpest possible photographs, especially in low light, and you’re all like “Whatever,” and “I have steady hands, dude.” Well, take a look at this video, which shows just how much you SLR can via…
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Photographer posts revealing Canon EOS 60D video mode noise comparison
which shows that ISO 160, and multiples thereof, show less noise in the blacks than nearby lower ISO settings. The difference at some ISO intervals is dramatic Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: Photographer posts revealing Canon EOS 60D video mode noise comparison
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What kind of picture taker are you?
Photographers approach their subjects in a similar range of ways. Everyone has a rhythm to the beat of their picture taking. Link: What kind of picture taker are you? – Blog – Picture Editor : Photography Consultant : Mentor : Mike Davis
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How To Use Eye-Fi ‘Direct Mode’ With Your iPhone, iPad
How To Use Eye-Fi ‘Direct Mode’ With Your iPhone, iPad Sometime in the middle of the night, Eye-Fi released both the “Direct Mode” software update for its Wi-Fi enabled SD cards, and a new iOS app that works with” this mode. An Android app is also available. Together, these pieces of software lets you snap…
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Scanning Colour Negatives: Raw or Not?
Some think the optimal way of scanning colour negatives is to minimize editing intervention at the scan stage by scanning exactly what the scanner produces unaltered, then opening the image in Photoshop, converting it to a positive and making other adjustments as needed. Stated advantages of this workflow are that no data gets altered or…
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How to set up & tune a great Photoshop machine
How to set up & tune a great Photoshop machine Photoshop gets used in a huge variety of ways, from editing tiny icons laying out multi-hundred-layer Web designs* to wrangling gigapixel photos. The optimal settings depend on the work you do. Now… via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2011/04/how-to-set-up-tune-a-great-photoshop-machine.html the Photoshop performance team has posted a…
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Anatomy of a Waterfall: Behind The Scenes Video on a 100 foot First Descent
Link: Anatomy of a Waterfall: Behind The Scenes Video on a 100 foot First Descent – lucas gilman photography [blog]
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Tell a Photo Student: Rather Intense Webinar Alert
We have a brand new webinar coming up this Friday, April 8th, from 1 – 2:30pm ET. If you know a current photo student, emerging photographer, or photo educator, please share the details with them. A while back, Grover wrote a very popular blogpost “The Top 11 Things Photographers Wish They Learned In Photo School”.…
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Collector paying newspapers millions for scanning and other rights to photo archives
John Rogers, a Little Rock, Arkansas collector who has been paying large sums of money to several U.S. newspapers for various rights to their photo archives. Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: Collector paying newspapers millions for scanning and other rights to photo archives
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Photo editing 101 star rating shoots aperture lightroom | Chase Jarvis Blog
Photo editing 101 star rating shoots aperture lightroom In this Chase Jarvis guest post by Scott Rinckenberger, learn photo editing tricks for large volume shoots. Aperture, Lightroom, Bridge, rating with stars. via Chase Jarvis Photography: http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2011/03/photo-editing-101/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ChaseJarvis+%28Chase+Jarvis+Blog%29 Painful memories I have: My first breakup, my first deceased pet, my first time moving, but perhaps most painful…
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The Online Photographer: Why My Gigabyte Film Scans Might Not Be Good Enough
Why My Gigabyte Film Scans Might Not Be Good Enough By Ctein Last week, in some comments to Mike’s “Touch Once” post, I mentioned that I was on my fourth round scanning some of my film and that re-scanning my film seems to be something I have to do about… via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/03/gigabyte-film-scans.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29…