Archive for the 'Photography' Category
The #1 Hardware Secret to Tethered Shooting: The Cables
The Infamous No Name Silver Firewire Repeater Cable
So how do you shoot more than 15′ away from your computer? Well, it’s a bit of a problem with firewire. Firewire doesn’t normally allow you to have single cable lengths over 15′. Meaning you have to improvise a bit when you want to put distance between [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Five Reasons to Shoot Tethered
1. A Large LCD monitor is a much better viewing medium than the small screen on the back of the camera. A vertically oriented image viewed full screen on a 23″ Apple Cinema display is the equivalent of an instant 11×14″ print.
2. Immediate feedback of focus, exposure and color. This is hard to [...]
Pity the Fool - Hanes Mr T Double Tough Socks
Photographer Stasia Droze was hired to shoot Mr. T for a Hanes Double Tough Socks print campaign. She had shot Michael Jordan for another Hanes campaign a few years earlier. This time the ad agency needed a very quick turn around and requested it be shot digitally. Stasia was new to digital [...]
Canon WFT-E1A Flash site
For those of you following the WFT-E1A articles, Canon put up a pretty good flash web site for it. Lots of pretty pictures fading in and out.
Be sure to check out the detailed setup guide. PDF warning
Death To Film Eulogy
Since George Eastman gave us film in 1884, pivotal moments of change in our society have been recorded by trapping light between emulsion layers onto silver halide.
The imaginations of the Irving Penns, Helmut Newtons, and Ansel Adams of the world have been brought to life on film.
Remember the sickly sweet chemical smell as you tore [...]
