Category: Technique & Workflow
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For One Instagram Celebrity, the Secret’s in the Secrecy
For One Instagram Celebrity, the Secret’s in the Secrecy Sure the iPhone made everyone a photographer, but it also made everyone a spy. Just ask Richard Koci Hernandez: His Instagram stream of surreptitious black-and-white portraits has captured more than 140,000 followers and made him one of the first Instagra via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/08/pl_instagram_/ The key to…
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How Swimming Photographers Make Their Underwater Moment
To Get the Shot, Nerve, Luck and Scuba Gear Sports photographers who shoot underwater spend an extended time at the bottom of the pool, hoping to capture Olympic history. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/sports/olympics/how-swimming-photographers-make-their-underwater-moment.html?partner=rss&emc=rss A camera rests three meters down, its lens protected by a clear glass dome the size of mixing bowl. Al Bello, a 44-year-old Brooklyn…
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Large format photography with Nikon D800 as a negative holder
Guest post: Large format photography with Nikon D800 as a negative holder – Nikon Rumors This guest post on using the Nikon D800 as a negative holder for a large format camera + lens setup is by Jan Håkan Dahlström: It’s really quite simple. What you need is a large format camera, a suitable lens…
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Associated Press photographer Lefteris Pitarakis films setup of Robotic cameras at the Olympics
Link: DSLR News Shooter | Associated Press photographer Lefteris Pitarakis films setup of Robotic cameras at the Olympics
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Mobile Reporting Field Guide, PDF and .ibooks file ready for download
Link: Mobile Reporting Field Guide, PDF and .ibooks file ready for download | MultimediaShooter The Mobile Reporting Field guide that I sneak-peaked, is finally, well, almost App Store ready, but it’s ready if you’d like to manually install it on your iPad. As an alternative for those without iPads, I’ve included a PDF version.
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Anatomy of sports photography
Link: Anatomy of sports photography — chicagotribune.com Chicago Tribune photographer Scott Strazzante discusses the joys and challenges of his sports photography work.
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Robo-cams go for Olympic gold
Robo-cams go for Olympic gold Is it possible to get 11 photographers into a box and put them in a position where you could never place a photographer? Normally, it would be absolutely impossible. But nothing is impossible when it comes to the Olympic games. via Reuters: http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2012/07/04/robo-cams-go-for-olympic-gold/ At the upcoming Olympics for the first…
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Optically Adjusting a Lens
Optically Adjusting a Lens I write a lot about the fact that every copy of a lens is slightly different than every other copy. Now don’t get me wrong: I’m talking slight differences that are barely detectable, not good or bad. Even when things appear to be in the “bad lens” area, t via LensRentals…
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In Defense of Depth
In Defense of Depth From Russian Noir by Jason Eskenazi By John Kennerdell If there’s a single received idea that fires up the imagination of my young photographer friends these days, it’s that for “professional looking” photographs they should buy fast lenses and then… via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2012/06/in-defense-of-depth.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29 But if the current hobbyist obsession…
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Clive Rose goes swimming with a Canon EOS-1D X, Olympics in mind
Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: Clive Rose goes swimming with a Canon EOS-1D X, Olympics in mind A few weeks ago, a great underwater picture from the Olympic Games Synchronized Swimming qualifications in London really caught our eye. Artfully composed and perfectly timed, it was shot in April by veteran Getty Images photographer Clive Rose at…
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Using Your Blog to Attract Your Ideal Client
Using Your Blog to Attract Your Ideal Client – PhotoShelter Blog UK wedding photographer Lisa Devlin has shot weddings, engagements, and couples for over a decade. Her work has been featured on almost every well-known blog in England, as well as the U.S. Her quirky, unique brand usually brings her quirky, unique client via PhotoShelter Blog:…
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Revisiting The Zone System… or, How I Learned To Love My Light Meter Again.
Link: Revisiting The Zone System… or, How I Learned To Love My Light Meter Again. My goal for this artical is not to create yet one more tome on how digital exposure works. That’s already been done, repeatedly, and new efforts are always underway. Rather, my goal here is about two other things. First, to…
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Final Cut Pro X for news shooters: You say you want a revolution? (Or, how I learnt to stop worrying and love the X)
Link: DSLR News Shooter | Final Cut Pro X for news shooters: You say you want a revolution? (Or, how I learnt to stop worrying and love the X) Every time I learnt how to do something I made a post-it note with the shortcut and stuck it on the wall above my computer. I…
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The Future of Social Media & Your Photo Business
The Future of Social Media & Your Photo Business – PhotoShelter Blog We’re in the middle of a paradigm shift in social networks. We’re moving away from text-heavy content to that which is more visually appealing – photos, graphics, videos, GIF animations, etc. This new-found focus on imagery is a unique opportunity for pho via PhotoShelter Blog:…
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Is It Time To Eliminate Stills From Your Shoot?
Is It Time To Eliminate Stills From Your Shoot? – A Photo Editor Last summer I was having dinner with an Art Director who was fielding emails from a client who wanted to pull stills from the commercial video shoot to drop into the background of the commercial stills shoot he was on. He bemoaned…
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Tonal Adjustments in the Age of Lightroom 4
Link: Luminous Landscape Lightroom 4 is footing the bill for a catered banquet, as the new Process 2012 raises the bar on image adjustments! The new Shadows and Highlights sliders can do things curves can only dream about. Things that can really improve images
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‘Inside the story’ – Charity E-book aims to be a masterclass in digital storytelling
Link: DSLR News Shooter ‘Inside the Story: a masterclass in digital storytelling by the people who do it best’. It’s a collaborative ebook I’ve produced with the help of some of the best digital journalists working on the web.
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Facebook Timeline: 5 New Tools For Your Photo Brand
Facebook Timeline: 5 New Tools For Your Photo Brand – PhotoShelter Blog If you’re on Facebook, then you probably heard the news that all brand pages and most personal profile pages have converted over to something called “Timeline.” If you read our take on “Why You Need to Ditch Your Personal Facebook Page”, then you…
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Anatomy of the Ideal Google+ Profile
Anatomy of the Ideal Google+ Profile – PhotoShelter Blog Sooner or later, Google is probably going to suck us all into its social network, Google+. That’s hardly breaking news at this point. Especially if you follow SEO trends, it’s pretty clear that Google puts a lot weight on ranking on its own products (read via…
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A Few Thoughts on Filenames…
George Jardine File names are hard. Nailing down a coherent and consistent file naming strategy for my own library took some time. Let alone for my clients. And the thread goes way back. Back to before we even starting thinking about how to support folder structures and manipulate file names in Lightroom. I think a…