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28 June, 2010 – Leica S2, First Impressions

25 Aug

The Leica S2 has been out for many months, and there have been a number of reviews (including my own First Impressions report from Germany last September).

Now my associate, Mark Dubovoy, has had a chance to use the S2, and to compare it with his current primary systemS, the Phase One DF with P65+, and also a Leica M9. How does the S2 shape up against the world’s highest resolution digital back and also the S2’s littler brother? Find out in Mark Dubovoy’s Leica S2 – First Impressions.

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What’s new in CS5 Master Collection

24 Aug

Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 Master Collection software enables you to design and develop amazing work, collaborate effectively, and deliver virtually anywhere. Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 Master Collection software delivers a comprehensive toolset for designing across media. Explore exciting enhancements that include new ways to create interactive content, breakthrough performance, and integration with new Adobe CS Live online services to boost productivity.

What’s new in CS5 Master Collection
Interactive design without writing code
Design sophisticated interactive content and create functional interfaces in new Adobe Flash® Catalyst™ CS5 without writing code. Transform your unique vision into compelling online experiences and deliver perfect project files to developers.

Innovative vector drawing and painting
Quickly and accurately represent depth and distance using new perspective tools in Adobe Illustrator® CS5. Precisely control stroke width, arrowheads, and dashes. And use the new Bristle Brush to draw with the expressive quality of watercolors, oils, and pastels, but with the scalability of vectors.

Interactive documents and presentations
Create memorable documents and presentations complete with interactivity, motion, sound, and video in Adobe InDesign® CS5. Enhance page layouts with rich media using new motion presets for easy animation creation. Take advantage of support for FLV and MP3 audio file import to engage and excite your audiences.

Extraordinary image editing
Use the Mixer Brush and Bristle Tips in Adobe Photoshop® CS5 Extended to explore lifelike, naturally textured painting. Add dimension to your imagery with 3D extrusions using Adobe Repoussé technology, and make precise image selections more quickly and easily with new Truer Edge selection technology.

Comprehensive reach of the Flash Platform
Realize your vision online with the capabilities of the Adobe Flash Platform. Use Flash Catalyst CS5 to design interactive content without writing code, Adobe Flash Professional CS5 to create free-form, expressive content, and Adobe Flash Builder™ 4 to develop rich Internet applications.

Tapeless workflows in video production
Work natively with pristine tapeless footage in Adobe Premiere® Pro CS5 and Adobe After Effects® CS5. Edit tapeless media formats using industry-leading tapeless workflows to keep from wasting valuable production time transcoding or rewrapping.

Industry-leading performance enhancements
Work up to ten times faster with very large images in Adobe Photoshop® CS5 Extended and more fluidly on HD projects in Adobe After Effects® CS5 and Adobe Premiere® Pro CS5 thanks to native 64-bit support. New GPU-acceleration quickens work in Photoshop, the new Adobe Mercury Playback Engine speeds up effects processing and rendering in Adobe Premiere Pro, and Dynamic Link is now dramatically faster.

Expressive motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects
Rotoscope in a fraction of the time with the revolutionary new Roto Brush in Adobe After Effects CS5. Isolating moving foreground elements from their backgrounds with automatic transparency is now dramatically faster.

Crisp graphics for web, interactive, and mobile delivery
Create clean, sharp artwork that aligns accurately — and automatically — on the pixel grid in Adobe Illustrator® CS5, eliminating fuzzy graphics for the web or mobile devices.

Online feedback with Adobe CS Review
Streamline your creative reviews from within Adobe Photoshop® CS5 Extended, Illustrator® CS5, and InDesign® CS5 using Adobe CS Review, part of CS Live online services. CS Review provides easy-to-use annotation tools and commenting viewed in the context of your design.

Adobe Story integration for script collaboration
Accelerate media creation with Adobe Story, part of CS Live online services. Streamline the flow of script data into pre-production, production, and post-production to create more engaging experiences.

Adobe BrowserLab integration for web testing
Preview websites on multiple browsers and operating systems directly from Adobe Dreamweaver® CS5 using new BrowserLab, part of CS Live online services. Avoid buying costly test hardware and maintaining testing labs.

Acrobat.com integration
Enhance communication around the globe using Acrobat.com, part of CS Live online services. Convert files to PDF, store and share files, create documents and presentations online, collaborate, host meetings, and more.

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3 July, 2010 – LuLa Gallery in Toronto Closing & Print Sale

24 Aug

The Luminous Landscape Gallery is closing as of July, 2010. It’s been a fun three years since it opened, and I thank everyone who visited for your interest and support.

The gallery has served primarily as a teaching space and print studio. It also has functioned as a gallery whenever I was working there and in town, but given my travel commitments this hasn’t been often enough to justify keeping it open.

On next Saturday, July 10, 2010, from 11am until 3pm I will be having a print sale. This will consist of approximately 30 large matted and framed prints that are currently on display on the gallery walls, as well as a number of large format unmatted and unframed prints.

For those that are interested, I will be continuing my print studio and teaching activities out of my new studio space near Creemore, Ontario. Details to be announced. I may also have gallery shows from time to time at other Toronto area galleries, as I would in the days prior to my Carlaw gallery.

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3D Animation Masterclass: Acting Tutorial Highlights

24 Aug

Highlights from Kyle Balda’s 3D Animation Masterclass: Dialog Acting Tutorial, which appeared in the June 2009 issue of 3D World Magazine. This ten minute clip covers highlights from the 20 hours of video capture in 3DWorld to show one possible workflow of approaching 3D Character Animation with multiple characters.

How Toyota Dual VVT-i Engine works
Video Rating: 4 / 5

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Cambrian College – Graphic Design Jiggly – Stereoscopic Animation

23 Aug

Stereoscopic animation for exhibit. Photography: Sean Grant & Myself Music: Spoon – Stay Don’t Go
Video Rating: 5 / 5

At IVR2009 www.ivr.jp PHANToM: www.sensable.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5

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How Would You Approach Photographing a Model?

23 Aug

Image by Paul Cox

This question arrived in our inbox from a regular reader – Sammy – and I thought it might make an interesting community workshop where you, the readers of dPS, have a go at giving some good tips on how to approach the situation of working with a model for the first time.

Dear dPS. I have long wanted to work in a studio environment with a professional model to test my portrait skills (my kids are completely sick of me posing them). So this week I booked a professional model to come and sit for me. When I booked her I was full of bravado – but now as the day approaches I’m completely losing it and am so nervous.

I’ve been up front with her that this is my first time but don’t want to come off as a complete idiot – do you have any suggestions for working with a model for the first time? Perhaps some tips on how to make them at ease, posing tips and anything that won’t make me come across as a complete hack – or worse, a sleaze who is so desperate that he’ll pay for the company of a pretty girl (I promise I’m not)! Help!?!

What advice do you have for Sammy with photographing a model for the first time?

Post from: Digital Photography School – Photography Tips.

How Would You Approach Photographing a Model?

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Dark Glamour

22 Aug

Styled by Steven Robertson & Janae Johnson (hair), Paula Dahlberg (Makeup)

Equipment used to achieve these images

Softbox placed on either side of the model, large reflector to camera left.

Camera: Canon 5D Mark II
Lens: Canon 70-200 f/2.8L IS USM
Tripod: Manfrotto 190XPROB
Tripod Grip: Manfrotto Ballhead (322RC2)
Memory Card: SanDisk Extreme 16GB
Strobes: Two Elinchrom 600RX Monolights
Light Modifier (Strobe 1): Large Photoflex Softbox with grid
Light Modifier (Strobe 2): Medium Photoflex Softbox with grid
Software: Adobe Lightroom & Adobe Photoshop CS5

Jake Garn Photography

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Epson Stylus Photo PX710W Multifunction Printer Review

20 Aug

If you need a printer, that is fast and produces superb quality prints, then you need to check out this review of the Epson Stylus Photo PX710W Multifunction Printer. Oh, and I should also mention that it scans, copies and prints direct from memory card too. THIS IS A GEEKANOIDS GOLD AWARD PRODUCT! Manufacturer website: www.epson.co..uk Sponsor: www.academyclass.com Check out more great reviews on my YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com Or on the website: www.geekanoids.co.uk

Photography Lighting set up for chroma key green screen useful for video lighting and for still digital photography, featuring smick.co.uk continuous lighting high power kit and lightbank 350 cool lighting.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

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Monterey Pines in the Fog

20 Aug

Two of the most photogenic nature icons in San Francisco are the fog and Monterey Pine trees. Shaped by the wind Monterey Pines have a rugged appearance and texture. When shrouded by fog these trees stand out even more with their sweeping canopy and jagged branches. This scene was photographed very close to my home and in viewing it you can’t help but get the feeling these trees are reaching out to embrace the fog as it wisps by. Only after years of walking my dogs here have I learned that in fact that is what they’re doing. Their needles condense water from the fog and it drips down to the ground allowing them to hydrate and grow ever taller into the fog.