April 2, 2008

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Dennis Zerwas, Wedding Tip Wens

Wedding Tip Wednesday #3: It's A Date

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Real quickie tip for you this week. It has to do with shooting details at a wedding reception site. If you are lucky enough to get there early before any guests arrive, start with the wide angle shots of the entire venue all decked out. That way, as guests start arriving you can focus into a single table, then a single table setting and centerpiece, finishing up with the tiniest details of any favors they have made for their guests. Typically you will arrive with some guests already seated and mingling. If this is the case, try to find a table not yet occupied that has the best available light to work with.

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April 2, 2008

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Dennis Zerwas, lightroom, news, ProPhotoShow

Lightroom 2.0 Public Beta Now Available

Lightroom 2

Just about to retire for the night until I read Terry White’s latest post over at Terry White’s Tech Blog. Adobe has released Lightroom 2.0 as a Public Beta and is now available to download. Check out Terry’s Lr 2.0 Beta post for a great explanation on how Lightroom 1.3 and the 2.0 Beta will coexist. Download it here at Adobe Labs Here are some of the new features in this Beta version:

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March 30, 2008

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Gavin Seim, photoshop

Burn & Dodge Magic Video

Just posted over at Seim Effects is a free video about using burn and dodge to control light and dimension in your image.

Burn and dodge is an overlooked tool, and it’s true we see images all the time that need it. It’s not hard to apply, and it doesn’t take long to transform an image with burn & dodge and get that final magic! Yep even with those HDR images.

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March 28, 2008

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Gavin Seim, HDR Photography, ProPhotoShow

Photomatix 3. Now Available

photomatix48.gifHDR Soft, the maker of the popular Photomatix Pro has just released version 3. For HDR junkies Photomatix is a great tool, giving much more function over Photoshops built in tools for merging images to HDR.

Version 3 is even a free update for version 2 owners, and from what we can tell so far, it’s a nice update. Improved interface and some cool new features shape up to be another solid offering from HDR Soft.

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March 28, 2008

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Aperture, Gavin Seim, news, ProPhotoShow

Aperture 2.1 takes a leap forward

aperture2.jpgApple has released Aperture 2.1, and it sports a cool new plugin architecture.

The new version comes with a an Apple Burn & Dodge plugin, that does B&D, blurring, and more. There’s also support for other plugins like Noise Ninja, Viveza, and more. Sounds like third party devs will be able to make plugins similar to the way they do now in PS.

It seems aperture is getting into the pixel based editing territory with Aperture. Look out Adobe!

Still no presets from what we can tell, but when Apple catches uo in that area they’re gonna start looking pretty good. Of course Aperture is Mac only still, but if they ever make this for Win/Mac, Adobe may have a run for it’s money.

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