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July 28, 2007

An underwater photography book that has WOW!

We noticed a quick review of a book over at Imaging Insider, and decided to check it out. The book is called The Deep, and it’s by photographer Claire Nouvian. Whether your an underwater photographer or not this book will amaze.

You can check out a whole article on this over at CDNN, but the bottom lone is that this book sets the standard for underwater photography. Now we understand that this is one of those things that could inspire us to to go and buy an Ewa Marine and start shooting the deep, but don’t expect to be shooting this kind of work overnight. We found the book for a pretty good buy on Amazon if you want to check it out below.

It seems Claire spent more than two years on this project, and it looks like her work paid off. I’ve never been a big follower of underwater photogrtaphy books, but this one caught my eye enough put it on my amazon wishlist soon as I found it.

The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss

[tags]photography, underwater, deep, sea, book[/tags] Gavin Seim 2007

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July 27, 2007

Canon, Gavin Seim, ProPhotoShow

The Canon 40D "Still Speculating, Still Waiting"

The Canon 40D, anticipated predisesor to the Canon 30D may be here sooner rather then later! Then again it may not. We actually don’t know, but we figured you would want us to help spread the rampant, unconfirmed rumors across the galaxy. As many of us know there’s an old Gizmondo posting stating there was a spec sheet leaked that tells the juicy details. Some of these include…

* 10.1 MP CMOS sensor
* 5fps, 30 JPEG image burst (same as 30D)
* Integrated Cleaning System

Now an upgrade of a faster fps rate would be great, especially in this emerging HDR world. It would also be nice to see something a tad more revolutionary than what we see listed. Then again, if we think back to when the 30D replaced the 20D we see that the updated feature set was minimal. It may be that Canon is following this same path with the 40D, but only time will tell.

In my speculative opinion we’re likely to see the 40D in the next few months, but I feel the feature set (though it may or may not match the one above) will be not revolutionary, but rather just evolutionary. People are getting anxious for a new release, but placing a call to Canon revealed no additional details (no surprise there)

Those on the Nikon bench probably don’t care about t he 40D. Then again it could turn out to be so great that Nikon users will flush their systems down the nearest toilet, causing massive sewer problems throughout the world, and rush to the nearest Canon dealer?? Well that’s not likely to happen. But as long as Canon and Nikon continue to wage war on one another shooters in both camps will benefit. The saga continues….

[tags]photography, canon, nikon, 40d, rumor[/tags] Gavin Seim Photography 2007

Lensbabies…. Get creative

July 22, 2007

ProPhotoShow, Software

Mac Photographers! Leopard will be here soon

Well you PC users already got your new OS, but us mac photographers are still waiting. Leopard is coming soon however and I’m really excited about the new features. Amazon is now takings pre orders of OS X Leopard as well. One thing I like about the Mac OS is that you can even get a family pack for only 200 bucks so you can upgrade all your systems.

July 22, 2007

Gavin Seim, news, ProPhotoShow

Pro Photographer Forum Is Here

Well I finally deiced to take the plunge. We’ve been talking about forums on PPS since the beginning, and we’re finally here.

The new Pro Photography Forums section of PPS will now allow us to build a community of photographers and individuals on a free forum, that we will hopefully build a relaxed atmosphere in.

I’ve tried top integrate the forum into PPS as cleanly as possible using the SMF platform. And it should be fun to have the whole PPS community be able to chat, and share information.

So what are you waiting for? It’s free! Go sign up, and start talking.

[tags]photography, forum, hdr, high, dynamic, range, portraits, weddings, tips, technique, chat[/tags] Gavin Seim Photography 2007

July 21, 2007

Gavin Seim, HDR Photography, PPS Photography Tips, ProPhotoShow

HDR Portrait, Fashion, and Wedding Photography

See The Updated Version June 08 – Read HDR portrait techniques version 2

Don’t start using HDR. I want to be the only one… This phrase is often pretty close to what goes thru my mind when I think about the potential of properly implemented HDR photography in today’s market. So much so that I have thought of refraining from the subject and keeping the ideas to myself. My thought is this… “If nobody else is using HDR, that will make my work that much more unique” But alas that’s not what PPS is all about, and we’re here both to learn, and to help others learn, so here I go again.

In recent months I have been working to become a sort of guru of HDR. Whether I have succeeded or not will be left up to you, however I do feel that I have a strong enough knowledge of HDR techniques, and its possibilities in the portrait & wedding world to ask other photographers, and organizations What are you waiting for?

Now don’t get me wrong! HDR will boom before long, and when it does you can bet that organizations that are supposed to be leading the industry like WPPI, and PPA will be all over it. Since it’s my job to talk about the latest ideas in the photo world however I will speak on about this topic right here and now. In fact you’ll see that PPS has a special link in the nav bar just for special HDR posts, articles, and news.

What is HDR all about anyways!

You mean you don’t know yet? Well at least after today you’ll have no excuse to avoid trying it out. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. It’s better seen that talked about, so other than the images I’ve included in this article you can see some of my latest HDR portrait implementation in my HDR portraits set on Flickr, as well as on my website of course . Essentially however it’s the combining of multiple images taken at varied exposure levels, and then blended using…

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