December 23, 2011

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lightroom, news, ProPhotoShow, special effects

Buy Seim Effects. Give One to a Friend. Save 35%

Seim Effects makes a great gift for your photographer friends. And when you’re buying a second copy as a gift, you can save. Buy any Seim Effects product and get 35% off the purchase of the same product for a friend. We’ll even include a note from you.

Just send an email to effects@seimstudios.com after you buy your copy at regular or bundle price. You can also have bought your copy in the past. Just let us know what it is when you email for your discount code.

You can also include a note that you want us to send with the download. We’ll send you a promo code for the gift item and once you order, Gavin will personally send the gift download, along with your personal note to the recipient. Or you can send the download yourself by directing the download email to a friend when ordering.

If you’re giving as a Christmas Gift you can even let us know and we’ll send it on Christmas morning. It’s a simple way to give to friends and a great way to share your favorite photo tools.

If you have any questions let me know… Gav

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December 16, 2011

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lightroom, news, ProPhotoShow, special effects, tips, video, workshop

Press Release: Lightroom Ninja Video Workshop Series Launched.

12/15/11: Seim Effects Announces Gavin’s Seim’s, Lightroom® Ninja Workshop Series.

A fresh new Lightroom® workshop series from workflow expert Gavin Seim. Lightroom® training where you pick your workshop, pick your topics, and pick your time.

Soap Lake, WA, (December 17, 2011) – Seim Effects Photo Tools announces the availability of the new Lightroom Ninja downloadable video workshops for Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® at an introductory discounted price.

Lightroom is a system for creativity, quality, and efficiency. Each Lightroom Ninja video workshop takes users step-by-step through live screen recorded chapters, looking at each level of using Lightroom’s features with Gavin Seim, award winning photographer, writer, and designer of Seim Effects photo tools. Learn Lightroom step-by-step when and where you want.

Each workshop is fully downloadable in 720HD, making review and learning easy for all levels of Lightroom users. Three workshops are currently available: “LR Essentials,” “Everyday LR,” and “The LR Pro.” Three more workshops on advanced topics are planned for release in 2012. Each workshop is divided into topic chapters for a total of approximately 90 minutes. Workshops are being released at an introductory price of just $25.00 each. The first workshop in the series is also available for no cost to users that share about Seim Effects on their Facebook or Google+ pages. Details here.

Visit the Lightroom Ninja product page for more information.

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December 13, 2011

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Cool Gadgets, Gavin Seim, Photography Podcast, PPS Photography Tips, Pro Photo Show Podcast, ProPhotoShow, RoundTable

Pro Photo Podcast #82. Christmas 2011

Click To Listen>> Photography Podcast. PPS #82
Direct Podcast Feed – iTunes – Podcast Alley

Today’s Panel... Gavin Seim –  Barry Howel –  Dennis Zerwas – Brady Dillsworth – Jonathan Bielaski

On this years annual Christmas bash we we have fun talking about light, 2012, lots of great gadgets and gifts, and even avalanches… If you listen to the after show.

Podcast #82 forum discussions:

Main Time Indexes:

  • 03:30 News and Rumors.
  • 23:00 L Rounds – Light, 2012 Business..
  • 59:45 Talking Copyright.
  • 1:09:00 Selling Us.
  • 1:10:25 Picks of the Year.
  • 1:49:05 After Show 2011.

 

Links…

Is Adobe fleecing us again. Kelby writes them a letter.

Agency Access commercial PR like agency for photographers.

Johnathan’s personal portrait project, For The Love of It.

On photography. A video of Ken Whitmire.

Copyright info and tips for photographers.

If you’re going to imaging USA email Gavin, prophotoshow@gmail.com

PICKS. Lots of them.

Gavin, DSLR bot…
Gavin, La Crosse Technology BC-700 charger.

Barry – hassy nikon mount.
DZ… Steam Fast fabric steamer for backdrops.
John… Bubble level – Pro Gaff Gaffers Tape.

Brady. Lastolight Tri-grip reflector –  Lumiquest LTP hotshoe softbox.

Gavin… 126 LED light panel.

Barry… Rouge flash bender.

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December 9, 2011

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Gavin Seim, Lighting, news, ProPhotoShow

Raising the Bar – Stunning Environmental Portraits. For the Love of It.

by Gavin Seim: I received an email from a PPS listener Jonathan Bielaski of Light Imaging in Canada. He just started a great personal project called For the Love of It where he’s finding interesting people and doing environmental portraits that tell something about them. I wanted to share because he’s doing it quire well.

Another twist is that he’s staying away from heavy Photoshop work and working with tools we had from the darkroom days like burn and dodge. Way to go Jonathan. As you clearly know, good light and the basic tools work like nothing else.

It’s a neat project and they’re making some beautiful portraits from it. Jonathan says they plan to have a gallery showing of the results in the future. I think it would make and amazing series of wall portraits to really showcase these people. That’s the beauty of an environmental portrait. It’s a portrait and a piece of art and those are the sort of items that become heirlooms.

It’s not that personalized portraits are new, but Jonathan is getting out and taking on something unique. Trying to achieve a quality that separates him from the crowd. That’s Raising the Bar and since I talk about doing that so much. I thought it deserved sharing…. Gav

 

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November 17, 2011

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Editorial/Journalism, Gavin Seim, PPS Photography Tips, ProPhotoShow, video

Video. Master Portraitist Ken Whitmire – On Photography

by Gavin Seim: I worked with Ken recently on a promo video for his Wall Portrait Conference (incredible workshop by the way).

So after shooting the clips for the promo, Ken just say down with me and chatted on various topics I prompted him on. I’ve pretty much removed myself from this video and what remains is about 17 minutes of gold, as this renowned portrait photographer talks about out craft and how he see’s it.

Ken’s a really neat guy with more photographic awards than you want to count. But he’s always eager to learn new things and share ideas. It’s really cool. You can also view the HD version HERE.

Note: This post was copy-edited and re-shared in MAy of 2018. Ken passed away in November of 2016, but I left the tense and language as it was when this was originally written.

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