Category: Technique & Workflow
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So what does an HDSLR Hybrid Shoot Look Like? « Vincent Laforet’s Blog
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…
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Legendary Photographer Gives Tips for Low-Light Shots | Gadget Lab
Legendary Photographer Gives Tips for Low-Light Shots 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 via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/low-light-photos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GearFactor+%28Blog+-+Gadget+Lab+%28Gear+Factor%29%29 Use program (P) mode to get best results and…
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Zack Arias » Workflow :: Photo Mechanic to Lightroom to Photoshop to Delivery
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…
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Real-World Shooting With the Canon 7D: Making the Switch to HD-DSLR – The Digital Journalist
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:…
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Lens Testing – LensWork Technology Blog
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? Link: Lens Testing – LensWork Technology Blog via: The Online Photographer
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Digital Tech Mark Gordon | RESOLVE
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…
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Secret Social Media Marketing Recipe from Photographer John Lander – A Picture's Worth | PhotoShelter
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…
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Going retro to get creative | guardian.co.uk
Going retro to get creative | Darren Holliday 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…
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Tuesday Tech stuff with Tim — Stop-Motion Workflow | Luceo Images
Quick and easy way to make a stop-motion movie. Link: Tuesday Tech stuff with Tim — Stop-Motion Workflow | Luceo Images
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Robert Seale » Creating a Sports Illustrated Cover shot
Creating a Sports Illustrated Cover shot – Houston Tx Advertising Photographer Robert Seale 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…
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The 6 Elements of a Successful Photo Website – A Picture's Worth
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
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Spending Your Money Wisely on Digital Image Storage at Strictly Business
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
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Making an Awesome Photo Book – A Picture's Worth
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…
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Pro photographers who still use film « Stockland Martel
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 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…
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Shooting on ice – 1DmkIV and 7D play nice together and get published « DSLR News Shooter
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…
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’Tis the Season for Camera Tossing | Raw File
’Tis the Season for Camera Tossing 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.
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Multimedia Rules to Live By and Seven Steps to Training Yourself – MultimediaShooter
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…
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Scanning: The Old World Joins the New
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…
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Building the future of photography at home: DIY Computational Photography | dvafoto
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
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HDR Plea
HDR Plea – Luminous Landscape 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,…