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Really Right Stuff updates its entire tripod line-up with new features, better ergonomics

12 Jun

Tripod manufacturer Really Right Stuff has released updates to its entire product line. The company, which recently moved its operations from California to Utah, has revamped all 17 of its tripods, with improved components and features from top to bottom.

Like all of its previous tripods, each Really Right Stuff tripod is hand-assembled in the United States. The ‘Mark 2’ versions include both ergonomic and feature changes compared to the original versions.

One of the most notable changes is the addition of multiple 1/4″-20 sockets around the base of the tripod. These additional sockets provide more options for attaching accessories, such as Really Right Stuff’s phone mount and optional carry strap.

Speaking of attaching stuff to the tripod, Really Right Stuff has also added a weight hook to the underside of all 17 tripods. This not only gives you a convenient place to store your bag, but also acts as a ballast to keep your frames steady in windy environments.

The legs of the tripods now have sealed twist locks for extending and retracting the legs during use. Really right Stuff says ‘the new sealed twist lock minimizes the amount of contaminants, such as sand and grit, that gets caught inside the twist locks.’

Computer rendering showing the internal structure of Really Right Stuff’s new sealed twist lock.

Also, opening and closing of the legs should take less effort due to an added vented clevis. Really Right Stuff notes that the added air vents ‘prevent pressure gradients from building up, allowing smoother leg extraction and collapse.’ To show just how much thought went into what seems like such a small detail, Really Right Stuff explains how the ‘inward-facing vents also ensure air flow is directed towards the center of the tripod and away from mounted lens elements.’

The new tripods are also designed with interchangeable feet, which can be swapped out to one of the three options Really Right Stuff offers.

Lastly, the Mark 2 version of the tripods now feature an updated Sure Grip that uses the same hex screws as Really Right Stuff’s L-plates. So, if you’re shooting with a lot of Really Right Stuff gear, you’ll now only need to carry around a single tool.

To view more information on the second-generation tripods, head on over to Really Right Stuff’s announcement page. B&H is now taking pre-orders for the Mark 2 tripods, which start at $ 500.

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Really Right Stuff is moving from California to Utah to escape rising costs

22 Feb

Camera accessories company Really Right Stuff (RRS) has announced that it will be moving both its headquarters and its manufacturing operations to Lehi, Utah, where it will have access to a building that is 2.5 times larger than its current location. The company points toward increasing costs in California, where it is presently located, as the reason for the move.

“We love beautiful San Luis Obispo, but our employees can’t afford to buy a home,” RRS CEO Joseph M. Johnson explained in a statement on the company’s website. Most of RRS’s employees will be making the move to the new Utah location, which is 35 minutes from Salt Lake City.

This is good news for customers who will ultimately benefit from the location change. Speaking to Fstoppers, RRS Assistant Product Manager Nathanael Brookshire said the new building will open the door for a larger workforce and expanded production: “The move comes with expansion on every level.”

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RRS Is Moving To Lehi, Utah

San Luis Obispo, CA, 16 February 2018 – Really Right Stuff, LLC (RRS) is pleased to announce it is moving its manufacturing operations and headquarters to Lehi, Utah by the end of summer 2018. The move to a new, 2 ½ times larger building enables continued growth and allows RRS to better serve its customers.

CEO Joseph M. Johnson, Sr. commented, “Continually rising costs in California make it tough for a small business to compete in the global economy. We love beautiful San Luis Obispo, but our employees can’t afford to buy a home. The business-friendly environment and low cost of living in Lehi, Utah made it a clear choice for us to best serve our customers and employees long-term. I’m happy to see most of our employees coming with us, keeping our RRS family largely intact.”

Located 35 minutes south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front of the Rocky Mountains, Lehi is an ideal location for Really Right Stuff. It is the fifth fastest growing city in the country at the center of the high tech “Silicon Slopes.” Lehi’s beautiful natural surroundings provide easy access to hiking, mountain biking, fishing, camping, skiing, hunting, and, of course, excellent outdoor photography that spurred the birth of RRS. Six national parks are within a 4-5 hour drive from Lehi, including Yellowstone and Zion.

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Affinity Photo 1.6 released: faster processing, new features, and free stuff

04 Nov

Serif has updated its image editing software Affinity Photo with ‘a huge performance boost’ to make it faster to use and more capable with large files. The step to v1.6 also brings a new ‘light’ user interface option for those new to the program or those who don’t need the full range of features.

Additional feature enhancements include a stroke stabilization mode for brushes and pencils, as well as better support for its Photoshop plug-in. Here’s a full list of the new features you’ll find in Affinity Photo 1.6:

  • New light user interface option
  • New stroke stabiliser for all pencil and brush tools
  • New “Edit In” integration with Apple Photos
  • Metal 2 accelerated view optimised for macOS High Sierra
  • Improved view pan/zoom performance and
  • Improved performance with large documents
  • New font chooser dropdown with recents, used fonts and favourites
  • New Glyph browser
  • Align to key items
  • Text frame vertical alignment options
  • Fit frame to text
  • Custom brush wet edges
  • Outlier stacking mode
  • Improved Photoshop Plugin support
  • Improved Live Filters performance
  • Many PDF export improvements including vector export of multi-stop gradients
  • Numerous bug fixes and other improvements

Additionally, the update gives new and existing users what the company describes as ‘bonus content’ worth around £120, including:

  • Dirk Wüstenhagen Fine Art Texture Collection: 99 beautifully crafted, high-resolution textures
  • Uplift Epic Skies Overlay: A versatile collection of 50 striking cloud overlays
  • Macro Pack: A stunning set of image styles, light leaks and distortions

Affinity Photo costs £49 / $ 50 / €55 and can be downloaded directly from the Affinity website.

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Affinity 1.6 updates and free bonus content available now

We are thrilled to announce that both Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer have just received a fantastic new update. And to celebrate for the next two weeks we are giving away a huge bundle of creative content free with every purchase!

Our apps continue to push the boundaries of professional creative software and this latest update raises the bar once again with a huge performance boost making them faster, smoother and more powerful than ever.

We’ve added valuable new features including a light UI mode, brush stabilisation and tons of useful performance improvements and enhancements. For more details check out our brand-new product pages and the 1.6 feature video below, all created using artwork submitted by our very talented users.

Affinity apps are all about enabling you to work faster – whether it’s a quick design draft or photo edit, or a painstaking, complex document involving hundreds of layers or stacked images.

Our apps are already a trusted part of the workflow for creative professionals around the world. The latest versions build on those proven capabilities to deliver lightning speed, pinpoint accuracy and incredible processing power like never before.
Along-side the v1.6 update you will also receive:

Affinity Photo bonus content worth around £105

  • Dirk Wüstenhagen Fine Art Texture Collection – 99 beautifully crafted, high-resolution textures
  • Uplift Epic Skies Overlay – A versatile collection of 50 striking cloud overlays
  • Macro Pack – A stunning set of image styles, light leaks and distortions

Affinity Designer bonus content worth around £60

  • Frankentoon Texturizer Pro Brush Pack – Over 70 brushes created exclusively for Affinity Designer
  • Tom Chalky Handcrafted Fonts & Textures – A huge bundle of stylish fonts and over 80 textures
  • Grade UI Kit – More than 1000 fully-customisable elements, icons, panels and buttons

If you already own Affinity Photo or Affinity Designer this update is completely free, and to thank you for your support we’ve also made the free content available to existing users until 16 November when the special offer ends.

Mac customers can download the update right now from the Mac App Store and Windows customers will be prompted to update the next time they open their app. Once installed a link to the free content will appear on the app welcome screen (go to Help and select Welcome if it does not appear at start up).

If you don’t own them yet now is the perfect time to buy. The apps are available priced at £48.99 / $ 49.99 / 54,99€ each, which we think is great value for money ? the free content alone would cost more than the app, if bought separately. And remember there’s no subscription and future updates like this one are also included in the price!

It’s also worth noting our free trials have now been reset, so if you downloaded a trial in the early days and would like to see how far our apps have come, you can now download the trial from our website for a second time.

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Making the Most out of the Photography Stuff You Have Already

21 Sep

Several years ago I had a studio for about six months. It was really nice to have a space that I knew was always there, waiting for me to shoot in, should the need arise. The problem was that most of my shoots took place outdoors or on location, and when my trial lease period was over, I couldn’t rationalize staying on at the monthly rental rate. What didn’t occur to me at the time was that I had a perfectly good, albeit small, basement at my disposal. Due to the low, 80″ (6.6 foot) ceiling, the narrow, 10’x20′ shooting area, and the generally dark ambience of an unfinished basement, the thought of shooting down there had never crossed my mind. It wasn’t until I moved out of my studio and no longer had a place to store my gear, that I even ventured down there with my equipment.

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The setup began simply enough, with me doing little more than editing at a table down there. Over the months that followed, I did the occasional head shot or product shoot, quickly realizing that I didn’t need as much space as I originally thought. Sometimes a problem would arise, like when I needed to shoot a full body portrait of a guy who was over six feet tall. I began modifying the space accordingly, such as adding white panels to the overhead joists to reflect light.

I wanted a white seamless set up, but the backdrop stand legs were too wide to allow for the 8 foot wide white vinyl roll. Instead, I discovered that I could run a rod from the top of the air condition duct to a C-stand and just barely fit it in the space, pulling the sweep just out to the edge of my desk. This allowed a depth just long enough to light the subject and background separately, which meant I could accomplish a pure white background (if the space was any more shallow, the subject would be stepping in to the backdrop light, blowing them out with the light).

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The other issue with a small shooting space is that you don’t have the space to back your lights off of your subject. As you may know, if you want soft light on your subject, you need to make your light source large and diffused or indirect. The problem was that if I added even an smaller umbrella to my strobe stand it meant that I’d have to lower the light the length of the radius of the umbrella, leaving my light at a max height of around five feet (too low). The narrow width of the shoot space also meant that I couldn’t simply hang up a white sheet and shoot through it, which is a common workaround in making a small light source larger.

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I eventually figured out as a solution which was to place a 40″x60″ white board on my desk, beside where the subject usually stands, and shoot light into the board, several feet in front of the subject. By securing a credit card, or something of a similar size and opaqueness, to the side of the strobe, and zooming the flash in to 105mm, I was able to get my light stand out of my view of the subject as well as create a large, reflected light surface, that ran all the way up to the ceiling. This large light source was fantastic in creating a giant catchlight in the subject’s eyes, sunglasses or any reflective surface. I also added a small, white v-flat to hide the background light, which also served in reflecting some of the light onto the opposite white wall, helping to further light the subject.

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Keep in mind that within the small confines of this setup, the subject is pretty much fixed in one spot. If they were to move forward at all, the crosslight will create odd shadows on their face, or if they move backward, they would get caught in the harsh background light.

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What sorts of innovations have you come up with to work within your space or equipment limitations? Share in the comment section below.

Links to other DIY projects for you:

  • DIY How to Build and Use a Reflector to Take Better Portraits
  • Light Tent Comparison – DIY Versus Kit Tents
  • A project for the New Year: How to make a DIY Ground Pod
  • 27 Amazing Macro Snowflake Images Shot with a DIY Camera Set Up

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Good Stuff, Free: Joey L. on Creative Live, Now

29 Apr

Just a quick heads-up: for three full days, photographer Joey L. is teaching all day live on Creative Live. And it’s free.

So far, it looks like really good stuff, and definitely worth your time.

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Urban Exploration High Stuff London

02 Feb

Shots of London from a High Night and Day

 
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Losing Stuff

08 Dec

One minute you have it, one minute you don’t. Losing stuff is as annoying as it is funny because it’s usually the result of day dreaming or brain farting. BART”S SHIRT: justkiddingfilms.bigcartel.com BLOOPERS: www.youtube.com GAMER CHANNEL: www.youtube.com NEWS CHANNEL: www.youtube.com WEBSITE: www.justkiddingfilms.net MERCHANDISE www.justkiddingfilms.bigcartel.com TWITTER twitter.com FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com TUMBLR: justkiddingfilms.tumblr.com Credits: Creative Minds- Joe Jo (@joverdose) & Bart Kwan (@bartkwan) Director- Casey Chan (@chanmanprod) Director of Photography- Casey Chan (@chanmanprod) Editor- Casey Chan (@chanmanprod) Assistant Director- Tommy Trinh (@TomTTrinh) Producer- Geo Antoinette (@Geo_Antoinette) Sound- Shena & Bruce Kwan (@brucekwan15) Grip- Tommy Trinh (@TomTTrinh) and Bruce Kwan (@brucekwan15) Behind-The-Scenes- Tommy Trinh (@TomTTrinh) Casey Chan (@chanmanprod) & Brian Huynh losing stuff, shit, sex change, circumcise , butcher, stealing, theft, water dispenser, GTA, stolen car, unicycle, reunion, virgin, virginity, lost phone, lunch time, jkfilms, justkiddingfilms, just kidding films, geo Antoinette, bart kwan, joe jo
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SOUNDS OF THE NIGHT FLIPBOOK | Tiësto x Melanie Iglesias Dance music has never sounded and looked so good! This unique video combines the fashion of dance music and the energy of the live experience. This unique video follows the lovely Melanie Iglesias as she parties at a mind blowing pool party and dance music festival dancing away to the sounds of the king himself – Tiësto! Along the way, she wears some of the freshest outfits out there and the best headphones around – the AKG by Tiësto range. For more information visit: tiesto.akg.com MADE WITH LOVE, BY RECREATION WORLDWIDE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JOSH NEUMAN EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR SEAN MIYASHIRO PHOTOGRAPHY MICHAEL CREAGH VIDEOGRAPHY GALEN OAKES NELSEN BRAZILL FILM BY GARY GARY GARDNER EDITING NELSEN BRAZILL POST PRODUCTION, MOTION GRAPHICS STABLISHED – RATHA NOU MAKEUP LOLA SON YUKO TAKAHASHI HAIR STYLIST TAKASHI ASHIZAWA STYLIST CHRIS KIM PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS EUNICE PARK CHRISTINA KIM ASHIMA AIYER

 
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What is HDR and Aperture and Stuff? 30 Photo Terms You Must Know Letter-Perfect

29 Nov

Falling in love with photography is easy. Being scared away by the highbrow photo terms is even easier. Crop-factor, aperture, depth of field… What the heck?! Come on, it is not that complicated, you just need a minute to settle it all down, step by step. Here’s a rundown in plain English of the most common terms you’ll hear or Continue Reading

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Video Game Stuff made out of Lego: Tutorial #3 Protoss Carrier

12 Aug

www.youtube.com Click here to watch Lego Starcraft: Brick Rush (Starcraft animation) Video Game Stuff made out of Lego: Tutorial #3 Protoss Carrier A step by step tutorial of how to build a Micro-scale Starcraft Protoss Carrier out of Lego bricks. Made by Alex Kobbs of Kooberz Studios, creator of Battle of the Brick and Lego Wii. Director’s channel: www.youtube.com Website: www.kooberzstudios.blogspot.com Twitter username Kooberz – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Follow Machinima on Twitter! Machinima twitter.com Inside Gaming twitter.com Machinima Respawn twitter.com Machinima Entertainment, Technology, Culture twitter.com FOR MORE MACHINIMA, GO TO: www.youtube.com FOR MORE GAMEPLAY, GO TO: www.youtube.com FOR MORE SPORTS GAMEPLAY, GO TO: www.youtube.com FOR MORE TRAILERS, GO TO: www.youtube.com TAGS: “Starcraft” “Lego Starcraft” Lego tutorial starcraft2 terran protoss zerg kooberz wii xbox playstation animation blizzard activision wow world of warcraft diablo rush scv south korea microscale lugnet hobby germany rts real time strategy kotaku mean streak goliath tank zergling entertainment gizmodo carrier “Starcraft” “Lego Starcraft” Lego tutorial starcraft2 UPC 020626728386 terran protoss zerg kooberz wii xbox playstation animation goliath tank zergling entertainment gizmodo yt:quality=high
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OFFICIAL MR BEAN. Mr Bean plays with his new pet goldfish. The fish is very clever and does lots of tricks for him.
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