January 30, 2009
It was late Sunday night on the way home from bible study at my brothers house near Coulee City. I was looking west towards Waterville and there were so many stars. They live in the country, so the only artificial lights are on the horizon.
This was taken with my new Canon 5D MK II. This won’t mean much to non photo geeks, but I shot it at ISO 6400, Sigma 15mm Fisheye lens @ f2.8 exposed for 13 seconds and cleaned with neat image: The heavens delare the glory of God… Gav
January 26, 2009
Click To Listen>>Â Photography Podcast. PPS #54
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Today’s topics: Industry & PPS news. Getting your photography noticed.
Host: Gavin Seim ~ Seim Studios
Here Is Podcast #54 forum discussion:
Show Notes & Links:
The Canon 5D MK2 firmware 1.07 is available.
Also here’s some 5D MK II High ISO samples I posted.
PPS contest winners & sponsors are announced here.
Gavins’ Interview on pieces of the picture.
Planning an HDR workshop in Washington. Also thinking about going to Ireland next winter. Email Gavin you have thoughts on Ireland, or are interested in attending the workshop.
Check out the OnOne Plugin Suite4 Straight Dope Review.
OnOne has given PPS’ers a 20% off discount good till Feb 28th. Use Promo Code PRPHT2
I’ve started the HDR portrait & wedding group on Flickr, as well as the Incredible HDR group. You can also join the main PPS Flickr group.
Follow Gavin on Twitter.
Power Workflow 2.2 presets have been released.
Use Promo Code PPS to save 15%
My new wedding photography site is working well.
Here’s the bridal show booth picture and info.
Pocket Wizards and Radio Poppers are RF add on’s instead of using built in Infrared on your flash.
Canon RC1 remote works on 5D MK II. It’s cheap too. I’m getting one.
Gavin ordered the Black Rapid strap.
Lightroom 2.3 beta is on available Adobe Labs.
Let’s talk about online galleries and photo selling.
Smugmug, Zenfolio, Exposure Manager, Instaproofs, Collages. Even install your own with somethihg like Pictures Pro.
What do you like and why?
January 25, 2009
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Never lose the heart and the eye’s of a student.
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January 24, 2009
I was honored to have recently been interviewed by Tommy over at the Pieces Of The Picture website. They have lots of cool photo related posts, and each Friday they do interviews with photographers.
Photographers can be so dry when being interviewed. I think they went easy on me. I tried not be boring in my responses, but I’m only human. How I did will be up to you, but you may learn a little more about how I tick. Check out the interview here and don’t forget to add their site to your read list… Gav
January 23, 2009
by Gavin Seim: A problem people often have with HDR pictures, is getting a bold but balanced look. Often their images end up too flat, too fake, or too fancy and the entire goal (which is a vivid High Dynamic Range image) is lost. Here’s a few tips that apply to HDR nature as well as HDR portrait images on how I get a bold but not overkill look.
Below I’ve combined two – three image sets as HDR’s in Photomatix, but I’m just getting started. To bring it out, I need to mold them a bit and coax out the details I need.
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