Lightroom Seminar at Julia Dean Photo Workshops
For those of you that couldn’t make the APA seminar last week, I am also teaching Lightroom and CS3 workflow at the Julia Dean Photo Workshops in Venice on Sunday June 3rd. Click here for more details
Lightroom Seminar Saturday May 19th
I will be giving a seminar about how we use Lightroom in our capture and delivery workflow on Saturday May 19th for APA-LA. The info from APA is below. One disclaimer about the seminar copy, I will teach you everything I know and can fit in roughly 3 hours - which is probably a little less than “all there is to know”.
APA/LA May Digital Workshop
Saturday May 19, 2007
9am-1pm
APA/LA Digital Workshop Presented by APA/LA & Photo Impact:
A Guide Through Adobe Lightroom w/ Michael Britt
Saturday May 19, 2007
9:00am - 1:00pm
Anthony Nex Studio 3221 Hutchison Ave., Los Angeles 90034
Lightroom, Lightroom, Lightroom!
Adobe’s new app promises to radically transform your workflow making it easier than ever to edit and process your images. Come join us Saturday May 19th as we learn all there is to know about this amazing new program from the guy who literally wrote the manual for it, Michael Britt.
Michael has shared his expertise with us before so you know by now this is a session not to be missed. He’ll show you all the ins and outs, how to quickly and efficiently get your work done so you have more time to focus on creating new images and building your business. You’ll see how Lightroom allows you to easily import, organize, and edit your images. He’ll show you how Lightroom and Photoshop work seamlessly together to give you a powerful set of tools you won’t be able to live without.
Come see what the buzz is all about and learn what you need to know to bring your workflow into the 21st Century. Join us Saturday, May 19th at 9 AM for the latest in our series of seminars
at Anthony Nex’s studio at 3221 Hutchinson Ave.
APA/LA Members - $39 Advanced ($49 day of/door)
ASMP Members & Students - $49 Advanced ($59 day of/door)
Non Members - $59 Advanced ($69 day of/door)
Sponsored By:
www.photoimpactonline.com
Learn more at the APA LA website
Medium Format Shoot Out
Medium Format Shoot-Out
Image Mechanics was approached to handle the transition of a major international campaign from 4×5 film to digital. The final output is 8′ tall standies at a resolution of 150 dpi. The photographer had done some previous testing with the Phase back and experienced high contrast color fringing using his preferred Hasselblad H series 150mm lens. With the support of Leaf, Calumet, and Hasselblad, we tested the Aptus 75 (33 megapixels), the Phase P45 (39 megapixels) and the Hasselblad H3D-39 (39 megapixels) - all using the same model, lenses and lighting. All images were processed in the camera manufacturer software as well as in CS3 ACR.
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Rap-Up Cover Shoot Behind The Scenes
In the process of updated the tear sheets on our website I came across something interesting. A behind the scenes video podcast of our shoot with music video director Ray Kay shooting the cover of Rap-Up Magazine with Mya. You can kinda see us in the background every so often, but you can tell the videographer was much more interested in the female talent being displayed =)
Click the link, click Play Show, then scroll down to Mya and click Play.
Gregory’s Travels
Well, suffice to say, things have been busy here at Image Mechanics. In fact, things have been so busy that I haven’t had time to write a single blog entry in the new year. Let alone the fact that I have been on so many shoots in the last three months that they have all blended together into one big amorphous blob. So, I present to you a small taste of what has been going on.
APA/LA’s Assistant Boot Camp
Join Image Mechanics at the APA/LA Assistant Book Camp at Anthony Nex Studio in LA on Saturday March 31st. Our seminar will cover what hardware and software is needed for a digital shoot. We will also give an overview of the Image Mechanics workflow as part of a live shoot.
Check the APA/LA website for more info.
External hard drive failure - easy fix
A friend of mine recently had two daisy chained LaCie hard drives fail on him. Unfortunately, one was backing up the other. He bought a new LaCie and plugged it in and copied a recent job that he was prepping for delivery over to the new drive. Then his computer gave up the ghost and shut down for good. He bought a new computer, plugged in the hard drives hoping for the best but none of them would mount - including his brand new LaCie. Before shelling out a couple of thousand bucks for hard drive recovery, he brought the drives to the Image Mechanics bat cave studio for us to take a crack at.
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Great laptop stand
If you are shooting by yourself or in tight places, you might consider getting one of these great laptop stands. Here at Image Mechanics we use it for extreme locations and portability. It is well balanced with a rubber mat that grips the laptop and there are several cool attachments.
Laptop Stand
PDN online 2 part archiving article
For those of you following the archive discussions, you can check out a two part article I wrote for PDN online here. I am a little late posting this link so the articles have moved off of the main page and into the Technology section. It was great having Sarah Coleman’s help as an editor. She really cleaned up my writing and made me sound like I know what I am doing. BTW, I didn’t choose the images to go with the article for part 1 ….lesson learned.
Britt Speaking at Imaging USA in San Antonio
I am speaking at Imaging USA in San Antonio at 4:00 PM on January 16th. This will be a workflow seminar based around a job we did with Michael Grecco where we captured 10,000 images in a 3 day period at last years AVN convention and awards show. I will be going over what we bring to a shoot and how we manage data and process images.
