Gavin Seim Archives

September 18, 2007

Gavin Seim, Photography Podcast, Pro Photo Show Podcast, ProPhotoShow, Review

Pro Photo Show #37 Gavin's Workflow & Blurry Photos

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Show Notes…
Todays review was the Together books. which takes regular prints and binds them into a book.

One One Soft has some new releases including photo tools pro, and photo tune 2.o.

Embassy Pro Books are coming out with some neat photo books that compete with Asuka, and Collages.net is not doing their own albums as well.

Here the free presets from Gavin, and also check out the histogram video for some histogram tips.

Show listeners You can win a copy of Corel painter X on the up coming show where we review painter, and it’s use to the photographer. We don’t want to list the email here for spam reasons, but you can find the details at time index 20:55 in this weeks show.

Picks of the week. Are photo watermarking software that run independent of Photoshop.
PC…
Photo Watermark Pro

Mac…
Easy Batch Photo
iWatermark

Lastly here is that the blurry wedding picture that I was talking about in the show when we talked about emotional pictures. To see more of my non blurry pictures visit my website at www.seimphotography.com, or my Flickr page.

September 14, 2007

Gavin Seim, lightroom, news, ProPhotoShow

Lightroom 1.2 released

box_lightroom_112×112.jpg Updates are now available to Lightroom 1.2, and Camera Raw 4.3. The updates provide raw file support for 14 additional camera models and camera backs within Lightroom and Camera Raw, including the Canon EOS 40D.

We don’t know yet if there have been any other features added, but as far as we can tell this is not a huge update like 1.1 turned out to be. We’ll play with it however and keep you posted. Of course you can find out for yourself! You should get the auto updater as soon as you start Lightroom, and be able to get your own update.

September 9, 2007

Gavin Seim, PPS Photography Tips, ProPhotoShow

Free Lightroom Presets. By Gavin Seim

I use using Lightroom Presets like crazy. I’ve decided to add to the mix of free Lightroom presets, with a few of my favorites that come from my Power Workflow2 Lightroom presets.

On to the free stuff. These have both RAW & JPEG versions just like you’ll find in my PW2 collection. You can also find more of my free presets right here.

Fantasy Sampler. Download Fantasy Sampler

These are a few of my favorite special effects from my Power Workflow. 400 is loosely based on the very popular “300”series by Mikelao. It’s a cool fantasy effect that adds some snappy drama to a scene.

Fantasy is a preset I use all the time, and have found it to be very useful since it gives a creative look. Fantasy Basic is a great lightweight general use effect that gives a nice gentle look. It works great on nearly any image. There’s more variations in the my complete set but this should get you rocking!

More than everyday Presets: POWER WORKFLOW Lightroom Presets by Gavin Seim. Define your style!!

September 1, 2007

Gavin Seim, lightroom, PPS Photography Tips, ProPhotoShow

Histogram Basics and using them in Lightroom to be a lot Cooler!

Many of us know what the histogram is, and many of us simply know what it looks like but have no idea how to use it, or what it can do for us. We won’t delve into the deep dark depths of the histogram today, but rather talk about it’s basics and how you can use a cool feature in Lightroom to make quick corrections to images. You can also watch the video for an actual walkthrough.

One guy lost 27 pounds by using the histogram…

Above we see the Lightroom RGB histogram, and as you see in the bright red letter left is darker, and right is lighter. Starting with that basic idea you can learn a lot about an image. Using LR however you can go a step further.

Video

August 29, 2007

Canon, Gavin Seim, news, ProPhotoShow

Canon 40D Sample shots

DPReview has a nice gallery of beta shots from the 40D taken with a pre production camera. From what can be seen here it looks like the 40D has a lot of potential, especially in the noise department.

The sample below was taken at iso3200, and sure we can see noise, but that much noise when cranked all the way up to 3200 is our kind of animal. Heres the full DP review gallery.

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