Gavin Seim

August 14, 2008

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Todays Panel…
Michael Anderson ~ Anderson Photography – Craft You Sucess
Gavin Seim ~ Seim Photography – Effects & Presets
Josh Weisberg ~ Microsoft Rich Media Group
Kadie Pangburn ~ Pangburn Photography
Dennis Zerwas ~ DZ Photography
Mark Parker ~ MarksBrides

Note: We had a few levels problems this week. We’ve reworked the audio & updated the file. Sorry for the imperfection. Should be fixed next time… Gav

Show notes…
Episode Forum Discussion

Notable Time Index’s
Microsoft 2:53-21:30
Lightroom 2.0 22:02
Legal Stuff & Contracts 44:15
Lucas Art & DRM 57:00
After Show 2:12:24

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Microsoft Pro Photo tools for geotagging photo’s. It’s free, but no mac version. Mac user can buy expression media pro and get similar features. The iFi wireless card can also use WiFi for tagging. Microsoft also has PhotoSynth

Lenovo and Microsoft team up for the W700 photographers laptop. It has a built in Wacom tablet.

NILMDTS topic got a lot of response last show. People really supported them.

Photographic is one alternative to WPJA. (their site is now as of this writing)

Lucas Art Pro is out. It’ll cost you nearly 600- bucks though, Yikes!

Online event image hosting and sales… Pictage vs Exposure Manager vs Collages vs Photocart Photocart is something you buy, and then pay no fees. The others charge a continual fee. PhotoReflect was also recommended on the forums.

Michael will be on the Craft Your Success Canadian tour this fall.

Gavin wrote an article about using WordPress for you entire site.

Picks of the week.

Mark:
Think Tank Photo Steroid Belt
Show It transformer For Show It Web shows. It converts shows to pro show gold format

Katie:
Totally Rad Actions REVENGE

DZ:
Start Up Biz cast podcast. A good podcast about business

Michael:
Seim Effects Creative Essentials actions
ShowIt Sites from David Jay. A great way to get a noce website.

Gavin:
From Camera to Print will help you learn about printing photo’s and getting great results…

August 14, 2008

Gavin Seim, news, ProPhotoShow

Facebook can use YOUR photography for them!

Do you have pictures on Facebook? It looks like the FB lawyers are using that nice little trick of hiding the cunning goodies in the legal confusion and hoping people won’t notice.

Now we enjoy Facebook as well as the next guy, but this is a bit nuts. Thanks to Everett shooting it our way.

The Facebook terms of use state that any image you post is essentially theirs for the taking. As long as it remains on their site they say they can do pretty much whatever they want with it. Here’s the quote from their terms of use.

On the suggestions side. I myself always post low res images. Not only on FB, but on Flickr, my site etc. I usually logo them, and keep em in the 600-800px range. It’s true that at that size somebody could still steal them for their site, but what they’d get would not really be print quality. That however is no excuse for FB.

“By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing. You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content”

Looks like it’s time for the FB lawyers to call back to earth, and for a lot of users to voice their complaints. Especially those of us that are photographers. I seem to recall Adobe doing something like this recently (wink). They backed down after a bit of outrage. For the record let me say that YOU Facebook have NO RIGHTS to use my photos. I’ve just revoked them.

Gavin Seim

August 9, 2008

Canon, Cool Gadgets, Gavin Seim, Nikon, ProPhotoShow, Review

Cool Product Of The Week. Kenko Extension Tubes!

Extension tubes allow you to put a spacer between your lens and your body this giving you a close macro focus distance.

Canon sells these, but there a bit pricey, so I decided to try the Kenko brand. They work great! You still maintain the contacts with the lens so you have all the metering and AF (though manual focus generally works better when your shooting a macro). You aren’t adding any glass in between, so image quality stays good, and the tube attached just like a lens.

Now if your really into macro a dedicated lens would doubtless be better, but these tubes are pretty cool. I just stick a 25mm tube on my lens, and I’m off to the races! I find my 24mm works best on the 50mm range lens.Wider angels don;t seem to like the tube, but I think the 12mm might work better for those.

You can the the whole set of 3 for Canon, or Nikon off Amazon for about 160- bucks (as of writing) Or you can just get one tube and see what you think. If your getting one I’d say start with the 12mm, or 24mm for Canon or Nikon

Here’s a shot I took this morning with a 24mm tube on my Canon 50mm. I’ve always thought macro was cool, this is a great way to play with it and get great results..

Gavin Seim

August 9, 2008

Gavin Seim, news, ProPhotoShow

Seim Effects Free Presets, Actions, on Facebook

Seim Effects, our sister site has a cool new deal for fans. Many of use PPS listeners and readers use the Seim Effects workflow, and not their on Facebook.

“Here’s the plan. I make a LOT of effects, some of which don’t make the final collections, and many of which do. For Seim Effects club members I’m going to be sending out free goodies for you to try out, and hopefully give feedback on so you can have your say in future releases. Also for being a part of the club you’ll get special discounts and promotions.

All you have to do is become a Seim Effects fan on Facebook. Also you can follow me on Twitter to get updates, cool stuff, and a stream of cool photo related ideas and links. Join us on both!”

Of course you cal also fan Pro Photo Show on their facebook page as well 😉 the link for that is in the upper left nav bar.