Given the level of interest in this new technology – I though that readers might appreciate a slide show of images that show what such a production might entail in terms of gear. Please note that over the next few weeks I will be going over the gear that I used in this production on this blog in detail – so please hold all of your gear questions for now.
Link: So what does an HDSLR Hybrid Shoot Look Like? « Vincent Laforet’s Blog
Harry Benson, the legendary Scottish photographer, sat down with NYT’s Gadgetwise blog and shared some tips on taking photos in low-light situations. Benson’s photographs include celebrities such as Michael Jackon, every president since Eisenhower, and th
Use program (P) mode to get best results and capture detail in every corner.
Don’t set ISO at the very top. Don’t go beyond 1000 because it gets noisy.
In this screencast I walk you through my process from start to finish. I have recorded, encoded, uploaded, and ditched this project three times this weekend with the third attempt being my final. Workflow and post production is far from being the funnest and coolest part of our jobs. There is only so much you can say or do to make it the least bit interesting yet it is crucial to our day to day jobs. The more efficient we can be in post production the more time is added to our lives.
Whether you shoot with the Canon 7D, 5D, Nikon or anything else, HD-DSLRs are now taking over a large segment of the videojournalism and motion picture markets. All are not really made to shoot video, but with various adapters and add-ons you can make it work and get results not obtainable in the past.
Link: Real-World Shooting With the Canon 7D: Making the Switch to HD-DSLR – The Digital Journalist
You’ve mentioned in several podcasts and a few blogs that you test all your lenses to determine where they perform best. How do you go about doing your testing?
After our post outlining a commercial photo shoot — which included digital tech Mark Gordon, founder of G10 Digital Capture Services — we thought readers would appreciate learning more about this increasingly important role. Mark explains how a digital tech simplifies the photographer’s workflow, customizing the process to fit personalities, locations, weather conditions, and client expectations. Plus, he recommends his favorite gadgets, most on wheels, for a smooth shoot.
Link: Digital Tech Mark Gordon | RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog
Imagine every one of your PhotoShelter galleries that you care most about is showing up on the first page of Google Search results for their chosen keywords. Impossible, you say? Not so, according to John Lander, who is accomplishing this by using social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinedIn and StumbleUpon as the main ingredient in his SEO-boosting recipe.
Darren Holliday: New technologies do not make better art: a new generation of artists has turned to equipment older than themselves
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/24/retro-creative-artists-equipment
Berlin-based artist Céline Pirard is not surprised. She feels the results from film “offer more depth” (not depth-of-field, rather a sense of depth), and fears that using digital cameras result in “too many pictures, so that we stop to see them properly”. Likewise, globetrotting photographer Nishant Shukla values the “slow process” of film photography.
Quick and easy way to make a stop-motion movie.
Link: Tuesday Tech stuff with Tim — Stop-Motion Workflow | Luceo Images
Robert Seale Photography is an Advertising, Corporate, Commercial, Sports Portrait, Editorial, Oil and Gas, Industrial, and Annual Report Photography studio located in Houston Texas that works for Advertising, Corporate, Commercial, Editorial, Industrial,
via Houston Tx Advertising Photographer Robert Seale: http://www.robertsealeblog.com/?p=435
My charge was to photograph Wall on the Kentucky campus in an iconic and easily recognizable setting. Lexington is an absolutely beautiful area, but the horse farms, race tracks (Bourbon distilleries?…..just kidding.) and the like were out due to the limited time we had with Wall, and oh yeah….it was about 24 degrees, completely overcast, snowing off and on, with 20-30 mph winds that day!
The secret to a wildly successful photo website isn’t complicated at all. It’s actually SIMPLE.
Link: The 6 Elements of a Successful Photo Website – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
With every New Year, digital photographers, (which is pretty much all of us now), face decisions about how to make room for a new years worth of image files.
Link: Spending Your Money Wisely on Digital Image Storage at Strictly Business
This summer I’ve had the opportunity to get out of the city on two occasions: a weekend in the Hamptons with a bunch of fellow Hawaiians, and a wedding in upstate Connecticut. As a photographer, I wanted to capture moments from those weekends with no other intention but to share them through my website, but when I reviewed the images, I decided to try to do something a little more permanent.
Link: Making an Awesome Photo Book – A Picture’s Worth | PhotoShelter
… It’s not often you see a professional photographer taking the time to formally survey his colleagues about an issue, but that’s just what San Diego–based shooter Robert Benson h…
via Stockland Martel Blog: http://stocklandmartelblog.com/2010/01/06/pro-photographers-who-still-use-film/
It’s not often you see a professional photographer taking the time to formally survey his colleagues about an issue, but that’s just what San Diego–based shooter Robert Benson has done at his blog. Curious about professional photographers who still use film—he calls them “the holdouts”—he sent some questions to 11 shooters, including our own Jeff Lipsky.
To get the moving shots I attached my 7D on the front of an ice-bike that I’d rented, using a super clamp. The camera was fitted with a Tokina 11-16mm lens and to get the exposure I wanted I fitted a Genus Fader ND filter to the front. I would have put the 1DmkIV on there but I didn’t really want to be the first person to write one off; imagine how embarrassing that would be. I got some strange looks as it was – and had some near misses.
Link: Shooting on ice – 1DmkIV and 7D play nice together and get published « DSLR News Shooter
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2009/12/camera-toss/
Holiday snapshots can often look cheesier than a bedazzled elf sweater. Which is why, this year, we’re advocating camera-toss photography.
This teaching thing must really be getting into my blood. Now that I’m on winter break and I haven’t been in a classroom for over a week, I have a strong urge to spew unsolicited and unnecessary multimedia advice. Please excuse the rant and take it for what it’s worth–the ramblings of a wanna be intellectual. TAKE WHAT YOU WANT AND LEAVE THE REST…
Link: Multimedia Rules to Live By and Seven Steps to Training Yourself – MultimediaShooter
All this stuff degrades over time, so the contemporary advice is to digitize it for enhancement and indefinite preservation. Enter scanners and scanning software – a field which retains a steady clientele despite the onslaught of digital capture. A few firms still manufacture film scanners and several scanning applications are on the market, of which SilverFast remains the most comprehensive.
We’re a ways off from hand-held cameras that can do it, but the future of photography will involve pictures in which the depth-of-field and focus and camera position each can be adjusted reliably and with quality in post-production.
Link: Building the future of photography at home: DIY Computational Photography | dvafoto
Mt Kebnekaise, the highest mountain of Sweden, in Lappland Recently, the results of the UK Landscape Photographer of the Year Award were published. BBC News made an announcement on theirwebsite, and a very interesting thing happened. Most of thereaders co
via Luminous Landscape: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/hdr-plea.shtml
HDR stands for High Dynamic Range, and refers to a post-processing method which allows to dramatically increase the dynamic range of a photograph (duh!) by merging different exposures of a same scene. Though the idea is not new, the technique has quickly caught on after new algorithms for the critical tone mapping operation (cramming the increased brightness range into something that a screen or a print can display) were developed a few years ago. HDR is also used a lot in video games as they allow to render a same scene under a variety of lighting conditions, but we will here only discuss the applications to photography.