Archive for September, 2006

New Record for Most Images in One Day

Breaking his previous record of 2400 Leaf Aptus 22 images, Dave Nagel sets our new record of images captured in one day at 3,666. The 2.5 day shoot resulted in 7,150 images captured, a monumental sum that would have been cost prohibitive to do traditionally. If you estimate the final selects scanning costs together [...]

Martin Scorsese for DirecTV

Michael Grecco was hired to shoot Martin Scorsese at the Directors Guild offices in Manhattan for On DirecTV Magazine. I arrived the night before on the 10PM flight from Los Angeles only to find that my Tenba travel case containing the PowerMac G5 didn’t. It seems crazy to me that with all the [...]

APA Digital Seminar September 30th

The APA has asked me to do another digital seminar on September 30th. This will be my third time to speak for APA-LA. The first one was on a panel about the true cost of digital and the second time was a workflow demo. This 4 hour event will be an in [...]

Five Secrets of Tethered Shooting

1. Use Bridge as your workflow software. Set up the shoot using your camera manufacturers software and choose a capture folder. Next, open Adobe CS2 Bridge and point it to the capture folder. Volia! Previews are faster than in DPP and more accurate (easier to adjust) than in Leaf.
2. Use [...]

Image Archiving Party Seminar Rocked!

Thanks to everyone that came out to the LADIG meeting last night. Archiving isn’t the sexiest topic to speak about especially preceding Greg Gorman’s beautiful nudes and portraits. Well, you know what they say.. opposites attract.
This camera phone shot of Greg (De Stefano not Gorman) pretty well sums up the evening. [...]

Great travel cases for digital capture rig

I was leery at first, to trust the soft sided Tenba Roadshow computer and monitor cases. We had been using an anvil style case from Jan-Al for Image Mechanics out of town capture jobs. There is no question that the gear is protected in a hard sided enclosure. It’s designed for a [...]

Advertising: What costs less? Film or Digital?

The results are actually quite surprising when you compare a typical advertising shoot of 800 frames to a digital shoot of 800 captures.
800 frames a day, translates into 50 rolls of 120 film using a 645 camera, such as the Hasselblad H1. Assuming an average film type of Kodak Portra, with developing and contacts comes [...]

Archiving Seminar LADIG - Sept 13th

I will be presenting an archiving program for the LADIG one year anniversary meeting on September 13th at the Pacific Design Center (Los Angeles) 7-10 PM. The topics will include storage media, data migration, database software and a look at the custom off-line archiving solution we use at Image Mechanics. Think of it [...]