And now, your Moment of Zen.
Many thanks to Strobist reader Chano Reus for the heads-up on a Spanish-language blog post detailing the light-painting … of an entire city.
No fewer than fifty photographers in the Asociación Fotográfica de Toledo participated in the making of this complex and highly choreographed image of Toledo, Spain.
NOTE: The post now has English and Spanish versions embedded within the copy. Thanks for that!
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When you use a fast lens wide open on your DSLR and you set the ISO to a desired speed, is your camera giving you what you ask for? Or, is the camera increasing the ISO without reporting what it’s doing?
Indeed – does it even make sense to use fast lenses on a CMOS sensor DSLR when you could get better quality, along with smaller size and lower weight with a slower lens to start with?
The Luminous Landscape‘s Mark Dubovoy, using data kindly provided by DxO Labs, has been investigating this issue and today publishes An Open Letter to Major Camera Makers.
Publication of my First Impressions report on the Panasonic GH2 and two new lenses has been delayed until Friday.
www.peachpit.com – NAPP instructor RC Concepcion shows you how to use the Red Eye, Clone, and Heal tools in Lightroom 2.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
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Video Rating: 4 / 5
Part 2 Out Of 3 The Intermission
Video Rating: 4 / 5
A short comedy set in a chemistry lab. Production time: 5 months Software: Blender 2.5 Alpha 0 Budget: 0
Neil Schneider interviews Michael Williams, Sales Manager for the Professional Division at XpanD Cinema. Michael talks about XpanD’s fit in the home market, their new DLP White Flash Technology, and more. Learn more about stereoscopic 3D gaming at mtbs3D.com and s3dga.com.
Julian Worricker chats to Brian May for BBC Radio 4’s “You and Yours” about evolution of the telephone and exhibition of stereoscopic images opening soon in a phone box! – The Gallery on the Green (www.galleryonthegreen.org.uk in the village of Settle, Yorkshire. Exhibition coincides with Brian and fellow author, Elena Vidal’s 4 November talk at the Victoria Hall (to book: www.settlevictoriahall.co.uk ) presenting their new book ‘A Village Lost and Found’. More info www.londonstereo.com
Stop motion video z fotek mrak? nad vesnicí K?ídla – Zrcadlovka Nikon D60 (Stop motion movie from photos clouds over the village Wings (Czech Republic) – camera Nikon D60)
Video Rating: 5 / 5
Inspired by the far east, the idea was create a stylishly modern samurai warrior. These our the results of our labors.
Styling team: Steven Robertson, Janae Johnson and Brittney Wiseman.
Wardrobe Styling: Michelle Boucher
Models: Ashley Spainhower, Demi Petersen, Carly Stark and Brynlee Grossenbach
Photographer: Jake Garn
Shown at left is one of my most used light mods, the LumiQuest SoftBox-III. It has just been supersized from 8×9″ to 10×14″ and released as the LumiQuest SoftBox LTp. (Not to worry — you can still get the SB III, too. Otherwise I would not be posting this until I had stocked up on SB-IIIs…)
So yeah, bigger — sure. But why 10×14 inches?
There’s actually a pretty good reason for that.
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If you are a shoulder bag type of photographer, the SB-III is about as big as you would want to wedge into, say, the hip pocket on a Domke F2 bag. But a lot of folks, myself included, now travel with a roller case to many shoots. Which means I can easily pack a laptop along, either inside or outside, for the plane trip/tethering/whatever.
The LumiQuest SoftBox LTp is sized to ride flat next to your laptop. (LTp stands for LapTop pro.) It is sized to perfectly fit a 15″ MacBook Pro, but can also slide into most places where a 13″ MBP will ride. (Ditto the 17″ MBP, obviously.) And in that sense it not only takes up almost no room but doubles as an extra layer of protection for your laptop.
Light-wise, the SB-LTp has the exact same profile as an SB-III, only softer. Which means it gets pretty soft in the knife-fight range, which is where I tend to use these kinds of things. But it also will give you a little more distance in that not-hard-not-soft range where it gets very interesting when combined with some fill.
It has an edge to it, unlike bulbous-type mods in this size range. Which means you can feather it away from your subject in close and work with the edge of the beam. It is too big to use on-camera (it would reach down over your lens) so this is a off-camera hand-held or light stand thing. LumiQuest has a video on how to pre-stress it when you velcro it on, a technique which makes it mount very firmly.
The LumiQuest SoftBox LTp is , and shipping to dealers now. More info (including the video) is on the product page.
Two More Upgrades
LumiQuest has also improved two long-available items — the cinch strap and the snoot. Both new products are renamed and replace the older versions.
The Ultra Strap (.95) adds neoprene to the traditional cinch strap to place constant tension on the mount, making it much more secure. It’s a cool design. You stretch it as you mount it to get the benefit, but once you do it right once it makes perfect sense. There is a how-to video on the product page linked just above.
The original snoot has been recast as the Snoot XTR and now includes an insert that will trim you down to about a 5-degree field of view. The new snoot is the same as the old model if you remove the insert. There is a video demo on the product page. And, like the Ultra Strap, this new version replaces the old version.
Please comment and rate videos – this will help other people find them by ranking them higher…it takes a second 🙂 — A tutorial for using the most useful and powerful colour/contrast tool in the GIMP! Don’t leave home without it!
Picasa 3.5 Instructional Video – Organizing your photos with David Casuto
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Order prints of your digital photos for delivery or pick-up via Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011.
While many stores including photography, drug store, and big-box grocery chains offer kiosks where you can bring removable media containing your digital photos for printing, these are sometimes less than convenient. The machines may be slow or out of order, the lines long, and you might feel pressured to quickly scan through and choose your images while others wait behind you to do the same.
Many retailers offer digital photo printing services that you can access online, with printed photos available via delivery or pick-up. This way you can spend as much time as you need choosing your photos, print sizes, etc., and when you are done you upload your photos to the service. If you are on a high-speed Internet connection, upload time may be minimal, and the convenience may outweigh the upload time. And to make it even more convenient, Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 lets you perform this task directly inside the software. Here’s how:…
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