Archive for April, 2010
5000us for a Tripod head – Now we are not talking budget….
CPS-H1 Self-Leveling Camera Head
Every photographer knows that image composition requires your full attention, especially on minute details in the scene. Nothing can be left to chance. On location, lighting conditions can change quickly and might never come back. In the studio, accurate equipment speeds production and simplifies work.
The Acadalus CPS-H1 is a rugged self-leveling camera head. Its innovative approach integrates state of the art sensor and microchip technology, giving you a new level of control and speed in setting the camera position. This allows you to devote yourself more to the scene with fewer distractions than ever before.
No commentsShadows and Mood
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Well I get asked allot about mood and shadows. Many people feel that shadows are bad and in my opinion this is just not try. Shadows add mood, and mood is good if you want to get your viewers to look at the image for longer than a quick 3 second glance.
That 3 seconds is not enough time to fully appreciate the image or the story you might be trying to tell. Shadows make your mind wander and think about the other things the image could be trying to tell or show. Take the time to play with your lighting setups and experiment with light and shadows, its not always about blasting the subject it is about telling the story with the lights you have and can afford. |
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Is Adobe CS5 going to kill the Watermark?
So while chatting with a fellow photographer today and I give him full credit for the idea for this post, I was showing him the latest feature Adobe will be releasing in CS5 – Content Aware Fill. Go to 2:40 and watch that demo:
There sure were allot of oooo’s and ah’s in the audience – I assume none of them were thinking about the possible consequences.
So how does this help photographers – Well it helps greatly by allowing us to fix massive mistakes & possibly save huge jobs. But the real question is what happens when Adobe empowers editors with the ability to remove anything easily from an image? It is really a problem we have daily and that is how to mark or watermark your images to hopefully maintain some kind of control over the images and the content you created. This incredible tool like many things great in our world can easily be used for evil.
I believe we all know that we as photographers should not impede the creation of such great time saving tools but on the flip side i ask Adobe: Can we please have a good way to secure our content when tools like this are released?
Adobe has very smart people working for them, they have and to this day create great products, now its time to make a reliable, secure way for photographers to lock down their images. We have asked for it for years and with the introduction of Content Aware Fill it’s time to see some better options.
In diving a bit deeper into this topic it does seems Adobe is working on solutions as I could only image they would be, this article: http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/pdfs/phscs2ip_digintegr.pdf and a few others show the high level of concern we all have but in the end we still have no real tools available to secure images.
Will any of these unknown security tools solve the problem, doubtful. But just like with “The Club” on your car steering wheel the harder we can make it the better.
2 commentsCamera Raw 5.7 and Lightroom 2.7 Available on Adobe Labs
Camera Raw 5.7 and Lightroom 2.7 Available on Adobe Labs
from Adobe Blogs by Tom Hogarty
Camera Raw 5.7 and Lightroom 2.7 are now available on Adobe Labs.(Camera Raw 5.7, Lightroom 2.7) The release includes new camera support for the following models:
- Canon EOS 550D (Digital Rebel T2i/ EOS Kiss X4 Digital)
- Kodak Z981
- Leaf Aptus-II 8
- Leaf Aptus-II 10R
- Mamiya DM40
- Olympus E-PL1
- Panasonic G2
- Panasonic G10
- Sony A450
Release Notes
- Slideshow playback on Windows could cause Lightroom and/or the computer to crash. This has been corrected in Lightroom 2.7
- In Lightroom 2.7 the camera raw cache limit was increased to 200GB
- Please provide feedback on the Camera Raw plug-in on the User to User forums
- Please provide feedback on the Lightroom release candidate here.
