I really have not had a whole lot of shooting time with the new itty bitty camera yet. Too distracted with other things. Maybe I’ll make it out of the house this evening. Of course I have snapped off a few stupid ugly shots of nothing just to see how it works. I can tell you that I have no hesitation shooting this thing at ISO 800 and not much at ISO 1600. Higher speeds are more of a must have the shot at all cost affairs – they...
That was quick – like two days. Anyway the UPS man showed up and here it is. I tore it out of the box slammed the battery in and guess what? No SD cards – yes I know you have to buy them, I ordered a couple of 8GB cards the same day, maybe they’ll be here later. I did scrounge up an ancient 256MB SD card at the bottom of a drawer and shot of couple of grab shots to make sure it worked. So here is my...
Let me say if you are a photographer and you are not using Moo products you have to be crazy. It doesn’t matter if you are the family photographer, a top of the game, wedding shooter, commercial, travel, landscape, whatever. Use them. For that matter even if you are not a photographer they are amazing. Come-on 50 or 100 high quality images with two sides of printing for 20 bucks depending on what size you order? Just do it. Okay here are some things to think about if you...
I don’t know how many of you track with matters on professional photography, be it art, photojournalism, wedding, portrait, commercial, fashion, event, whatever. I certainly do you see I am interested because I used to produce images for commercial purposes. I am glad I decided to get out when I did. I got out for all the right reasons, meaning I got in for all the wrong reasons. The biggest thing that I did not understand is that I loved photographing things I was interested in and passionate about...
I have been a big big fan of David Alan Harvey’s work ever since I saw it in NatGeo when I was a kid. To tell you the truth he is sort of a long time hero of mine. His images speak to me a whole lot more than most. Never met him – we travel in way different circles, even when I was doing commercial work we were so far apart in the work we did it’s not funny. To be very candid he has always been sort...
I know I drone on and on about this but I thought a few of you Aperture/Nikon shooters out there and maybe even some Leica M9 shooters may find it interesting there seems to be a strange connection in the way that Aperture renders NEF color and the way the Leica M9 renders color in it’s JPG’s. Well not really a connection but an interesting similarity of “issues”. This is going to take some leaps of faith on your part to follow along. This is a code word for...
Or any other “presets” for that matter are not evil. I feel compelled to say that and get my official position out there after some mis-understandings of prior posts and a few emails regarding the subject after my “HDR preset” post went viral. First off, I do use presets, my own, not presets I buy. I however am not a fan of for sale presets. I will re-explain why in a second without the subtle sarcasm so I am clear along with some advice in setting up your own...
I thought I would follow up the Nik HDR Efex Pro announcement with a free preset for all of you Aperture 3 people. If you haven’t been reading for a while you probably don’t know that I am not a big fan of HDR but I thought that this preset might be a fun way to introduce you to the power and the glory of Aperture’s Highlights and Shadows adjustment. Here is an old tutorial on Highlights and Shadows. Let’s not get into the “bad HDR” vs “good HDR”...
You can’t tell from the comments but the most popular post last week by far was the tiny little post on window light that I put up on the site. This is all stuff that “we” already know but tend to forget about and don’t practice it as time goes by and little TTL flashes creep into the mix and experiments with HDR cram our brains, and, and. I thought it would be useful to every once in a while call a time out for all that and get...
I know – too much about film. Don’t worry the only reason is I have had Aperture 3 on the brain for way way too long over the last few days going through the latest soon to be released (this week I promise) Organization eBook. So now that I took a break from that today I wanted to wrap up the ongoing mini-posts I have been doing on Delta 100. So far we have seen a bit of the image I wanted to talk about rear it’s ugly head...
