Link: Internet “relief kit” brings sweet, sweet connectivity to disaster sites – Boing Boing:
the instructional piece he has in the current issue of MAKE about “worst-case-internet” kits, with details on what to include, what each component costs, how to set it up, and why.
Chase Jarvis Blog: Behind The Curtain: The Guts Of A Commercial Shoot:
Whew. If you’ve tuned in at all in the past few days, you’re aware of what I’ve got cooking. To my knowledge this is one of the first (perhaps THE first?) global, multi-week-long, play-by-play commercial shoot to have its behind-the-scenes life chronicled and broadcast almost in real time via blog, Facebook, and Twitter. This will be the deepest look into the black box of photography that I’ve been able to share to date. By a country mile.
Chase Jarvis Blog: Packing Quick ‘n’ Dirty:
Scott uploaded this vid to my Facebook page from the Karl Strauss brewery at LAX and it quickly got over 100 comments/likes in about 15 hours. Since questions poured in from there and twitter, I thought I’d chuck the vid up here and scramble to answer some of those questions over a wimpy cappuccino here in the Air New Zealand lounge before running to our next legs to Christchurch and onto Queenstown.
It’s all in the Details: The Exposure Dilemma – sportsshooter:
Without getting into the nature of sensor architecture, or going into tone curves, the simple answer is that it is always better to slightly over expose, and use whatever tools you prefer to bring back detail in highlights. With even minor under exposure, shadow noise goes from bearable to unacceptable, even at low ISO’s on modern digital cameras.
The Visual Science Lab: Don’t optimize your purchase, optimize your technique:
Here’s the secret that drives lens junkies crazy: All good lenses are great two stops down from wide open. Almost without exception. Take a 14-24 Nikon and compare it to an Sigma 10-20mm lens and at f5.6 or f8 you’ll probably be amazed to find that they are pretty darn close.
Making an Awesome Photo Book – A Picture’s Worth:
Blurb is well-known as a digital book-making company. Their CEO, Eileen Gittins, and I have had a chance to sit down last year when we were comparing notes about putting together a national seminar series, and more recently, we’re both partners to the Magnum Expression Photography Award. PhotoShelter has used Blurb before to develop marketing pieces, and while the end result was good, I always had the desire to have more control over the output than their software allowed (I worked as a graphic designer in college).
So I was very pleased to find that they now support “PDF to Book” capabilities, which means I could design my own book using a product like Adobe InDesign. This new process gives a few distinct advantages
You’d Be Surprised What Those Files May Contain – Luminous Landscape:
While HDR is most likely the preferred approach for squeezing the last bit of stunning detail and tonal gradation from highlights and shadows, if you havenít prepared your captures for HDR post-processing not all may be lost. There can be an astonishing amount of information hidden in your raw files just waiting to be revealed by the right treatment in Lightroom 2.x or Camera Raw 5.x.
whats the jackanory ? – tdh: report #1 austin prep:
As promised WTJ? has teamed up with team Humphreys and Brent has promised to deliver us some juicy roadside goodness and will be filing special reports from the field. His assignment, to hit us up with as much jam packed behind the scenes action as is possible. Not one to do anything by half measure Brent will also be using the Tour as his very own self promotional vehicle to pimp the project as he moto’s his way from stage to stage. Ladies and gentlemen here is our first 2009 Tour de Humphreys report
RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog:
Ed Kashi sent me some notes last week from his recent trip to the Niger Delta about the creative differences between shooting video and stills. This is an evolution many photographers are going through right now, so I decided to ask a few other multitaskers to share their thoughts.
Peter Krogh – A Picture’s Worth:
Digital Asset Management (DAM) is a term that refers to everything one does with image files from the point of capture onward. This includes transferring, renaming, attaching metadata, rating, adjusting, proofing, backing up, archiving and more. Understanding the principles of sound DAM practices will help you design a workflow that is secure and efficient, and can help you increase profitability in the world of digital photography.
doug menuez:
With the invention of Innova FibaGloss paper the doors opened and Hanemuhle, Ilford, Epson and others got the religion and all today now distribute similar papers, creating choices and competition. I’m mentioning Innova because they were first, remain my favorite and now thankfully sponsor my projects. But I do this also from pure self-interest: I hope photographers will buy this extraordinary paper so I get to keep printing with it.
Photometadata.org says:
To protect your copyrights. To make money licensing photography. To smooth your workflow. To track image use. To find images you need. To find them again. You need to understand and use photo metadata. We can help.
Via PDN.
