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Archive for January, 2011

Nikon D3 – Live Interview with Nikon’s Joe McNally

27 Jan

Joe McNally has been described as one of the the most versatile photojournalist working today. He is known within the industry for his ability to produce technically and logistically complex assignments with expert use of color and light.He began producing assignments for LIFE in 1984, and was a contract photographer at Sports Illustrated for several years. He has photographed cover stories for LIFE, TIME, Newsweek, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, and New York Magazine. Joe is regularly honored with awards and citations. In 1986, he received a Page One Award from the Newspaper Guild of New York. The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) has granted him numerous Pictures of the Year awards including First Place in Magazine Illustration in 1988 and First Place in Magazine Product Illustration in 1993. In 1996, the World Press Photo Foundation honored him with a Third Prize in People in the News. His latest assignment is working for Nikon, testing and photographing the new full-frame D3, which Calumet will be shipping in November. The D3 is a new digital SLR camera that is poised to once again revolutionize photography for professionals. The 12.1 effective megapixel D3 features Nikon’s new FX-format CMOS sensor, measuring 23.9 x 36mm, which is nearly identical to the size of 35mm film. With the fastest startup time, shortest viewfinder blackout time, and shortest shutter lag of any digital SLR camera as well as the capability to shoot up to nine …

 
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Off camera flash photo shoot + Jared Polins Lightroom edit.

27 Jan

Two heads are better then one, that’s the theory as I enlist the help of Photographer and Lightroom Guru Jared Polin from froknowsphoto.com
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2nd Test Shoot | Deanna May

27 Jan

The serenely beautiful Deeana May was a pleasure to shoot.  She lives in California but I was lucky enough to catch up with her on her trip to Utah.  I can’t thank her, and her husband, enough for taking time out of a busy trip for a shoot!


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Land’s End Sunset

27 Jan

There is no canvas more beautiful than that of the ocean at sunset or sunrise. To the untrained eye it may all seem to be the same, but upon closer examination no one view is ever the same. I consider myself lucky in that every evening, barring the presence of fog, I’m treated to a view of a new sunset.

Land's End Sunset - San Francisco, California - Landscape Photography by Jim M. Goldstein

Land's End Sunset – San Francisco, California

While the view from home is nice, it’s never as nice as the cliffside view from Lands End here in San Francisco. In this photo a bank of fog burned off in the waning minutes of light. The remaining hints of fog turned purple framing golden lit surf swirling around coastal rock formations. Definitely a view worth waiting for before hiking back to my car in the dark.

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Land’s End Sunset


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Saving Your Sliders in Portrait Professional

27 Jan

Official video tutorial showing you how to save your slider settings in Portrait Professional, allowing you to set all the sliders how you like to any image you enhance. Check out my other videos to find more Portrait Professional tutorials!
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Blur studio Facial Animation Pipeline

27 Jan

See how Blur uses Softimage Face Robot to take their animation up another notch with believable emoting facial animation
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CrazyTalk6 3D Stereo Demo – Animated Comics (Watch it with 3D glasses)

27 Jan

www.reallusion.com CrazyTalk6.2 enriches your PC with the 3D digital media experience. CrazyTalk supports “Side-by-Side” & “Anaglyph (Red/Cyan)” output which allow you to view stereoscopic video with general/special monitor & 3D glasses. Simply tick the “3D Stereo Vision” in the export panel of CrazyTalk and you can become the leading 3D movie director. CrazyTalk6 brings you to the world of multi-character dialogue, by moving the camera and applying the text bubbles, you can even make multiple actors chat together like in a comic show.
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Overexposed?

27 Jan

You’ve heard it before and you’ll hear it again, photography ‘know it alls’ telling you your photo would be great, if it wasn’t overexposed.

Well… congratulations Ansel Adams the Third, it is overexposed.

Have you ever sat in the ocean, waiting for that next great wave with the blazing sun glimmering atop the cresting foam, shooting pincers of blinding light into your eyes as you busily scan the natural beauty of the beach; all while bright bikinis are begging to distract you from your quest?

At that moment do you ever think to yourself… wow, this scene is perfect… too bad the sun is obliterating nearly all the highlight detail in this brilliantly white sand and crashing waves.

No, you don’t.

Real life isn’t exposed properly half the time, our irises automatically adjust to compensate but their range is limited. While you’re floating there, squinting out across the ocean with tightly pinched eye-lids you are fully aware of the limitations inherent in a human eye.

Any claim that a great photograph can’t enjoy the same freedom of tonal range is absurd.  Blinding highlights and all.

Sometimes, like a tropical beach, a photo simply demands to live it’s life overexposed.  This was one of those times.


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Test with Jillian

27 Jan

On a random afternoon we took advantage of some natural window light, along with my new favorite toy –  the fog machine.



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Just posted: Olympus XZ-1 review

27 Jan

Just Posted: Our review of the Olympus XZ-1. The company’s latest enthusiast compact represents its return to the top end of the compact camera market. The impressive set of features builds around a 28-122mm equiv. F1.8-2.5 lens and includes a 3.0″ VGA-equivalent OLED screen, high-sensitivity 10MP CCD sensor and dual control dials. The XZ-1 enters a competitive segment of the market but its specifications suggest it can hold its own. Does use in the real-world support that impression?
News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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