May 29, 2007
So for those of you who caught the latest show, PPS #31, I spoke about a multi-touch sensing display. So the following is a youtube video showing the technology.. While you are watching this demo …. think about what you would be able to do with photoshop and lightroom… also what do you think this type of technology would do for your own work flow????
Until Next Time,
Jarrod Michael
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May 27, 2007
Memorial Day is considered to be the unofficial start of summer. With summer comes some of the busiest times of the year for professional photographers. You may find yourself shooting weddings, sports photography, family portraits or reunions, graduation sessions, covering corporate events, the list goes on and on. No matter what your niche is in the world of photography; if you are a professional photographer who has clients depending on you for important images, this tip is for you.
Make an extra set of your car keys. Simple as that. You don’t want to be that photographer with his or her face pressed up against the driver’s side window using their hand to block the glass glare only to see your keys dangling in the ignition. Not fun. I personally have not been in this position myself but hearing the horror stories of other photographers was enough to prepare me in case I ever do lock my keys in my car.
Your job between now and June 1st is to head down to your local hardware store and get a couple extra keys made. It will only set you back a couple bucks to make them. Well worth it if you think about the time and embarrassment it will save you if this ever happens to you.
I put one in my wallet the morning of a big shoot. I know it will stay on me the entire day. Just in case I happen to forget to put the spare in my wallet, I have another key hidden on the underside of my car! This may seem like overkill until you think about having to explain to the parents of a bride on her wedding day (who by the way are paying you thousands of dollars to cover the wedding) that you can’t start the photos because you’ve locked your keys in your car with all your gear. You can never be too prepared.
Who knows, you may get lucky and happen to be shooting a wedding which includes a shady looking groomsman who is “uncommonly efficient” at unlocking car doors using a wire hanger. Great but I would have a bigger concern after that. You know what they say, “Keep your ex-convict groomsmen close and your photography gear closer.” I obviously made that up but you get the point.
Dennis “Dz”
May 26, 2007
Click Button To Listen, PPS #31 Pro Photo Roundtable1
To download mp3, right click above link, and “Save As”
Podcast subscription feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/prophotoshow
Show Notes…
Well here is your first PPS Roundtable discussion. We had a few sound glitches, but we’ll get better. Hope you enjoy, and here are some links for things we discussed.
Gavin Reviewed Action Runner, a tool for automating the Photoshop action process with a whole bunch of images. Go check out the trial.
Also discussed was the free Wow lightroom presets by Jack Davis, and How to import your presets from Bridge to Lightroom. Dennis got the Eye-One Display2 for color correction. The Adobe Studio Exchange is good, but we don’t like it as well after the redesign. FredMiranda.com is a great place for lens reviews.
Gavin’s pick of the week was Photo Drop, a Mac tool for automated resizing of images. Jarrod said everyone should go to PhotoshopUser.com, and join NAAP And Dennis loves his lab Whitehouse Custom Color. I think that about wraps it up…. Cheers
May 24, 2007
I’m not to sure how well this is known, and there is no confirmation, but I just ran across this info while surfing Ken Rockwell’s site and found out that Nikon is releasing a new DSLR (the D3X)
Little is know about it, but the details from Ken Rockwell include a full frame sensor (5D size), 19 Megapixels, 4 FPS, ISO between 50-3200, 1/500 flash sync and all for the low low price of $8000
Cheers
Jeff
May 22, 2007
Scott Kelby’s new Lightroom Seminar had Tom Hogarty (Lightroom Product Manager) as a guest. He showed the audience some new features that will be coming in the upgrade.
Here is what Scott Kelby had to say:
“Here’s a quick rundown of what Tom showed the crowd:
He showed how you can now easily export one library of photos (now called “catalogs”) and import that catalog into an existing library (perfect for people who work on a laptop on location, then need to merge these photos with their desktop studio machine).
The “Keyword Stamper” has evolved into a much more useful tool, which now lets “Spray” (rather than individually stamping, so it’s much faster), anything from keywords to Develop settings, or rotation settings. This totally wow’d everybody when they saw it in action.
Version 1.1 brings order to your presets and templates as these sections now have folders, so you can easily separate your custom presets and imported presets and templates from the default sets.
But the big, big hit of his presentation was definitely the new Sharpening panel, which pretty much blew everybody away, especially when used with the new Clarity control. This brought cheers from the crowd, which were only matched by Tom’s announcement that Adobe was making this update available for free!!! (we don’t have an official release date, other than “it’s coming soon). “
Credit: (Kelby, Scott http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/)
So as you can see we are all in for a great treat when the upgrade is released. Oh, and the upgrade is FREE… so that’s going to be great.
Read the full story on Scott Kelby’s Blog.
Read more about the Lightroom Seminar here.
Until Next Time,
Jarrod Michael
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