Archive for the ‘technical’ Category
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
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The past few weeks I’ve managed to get a quick video up on Thursday but this week we’ve been pressed for deadlines at the studio. I’m attributing much of the good business fortune at Daylight Photo to the good kharma coming from the website here, so let‘s hope ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Have you ever been in a creative rut? The ideas just aren't coming to you and when they are, the results are disappointing? I'm sure we've all been there. This is the story of how I dealt with one particular creative drought.
A couple of years ago my photo studio was ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
I'm surrounded by my own photographs all day long and sometimes I take them for granted. In the world of business it can feel like you're only as good as your last image and then it's time to move on to the next. But lately I've been taking time to ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
This is it, the final chapter of the digital workflow series. Today we finalize our files and talk about how we deliver them to our client.
When we left off last week, our files had been completed in the working stage, saved as layered psd files. All the retouching and color-correcting ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Last week we processed our selected RAW images into TIFF files. This week we will convert them to Photoshop psd “working files”. If you process RAW images in an Adobe product you may be skipping the TIFF step entirely, going straight from RAW to psd. This week is where the ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Last week we selected files from a shoot for processing...
Now that our RAW files have been selected for processing in Phase One's Capture One software, we will output these "selecteds" as high-resolution TIFF files. At this stage of the game we we want to create the best possible uncompressed TIFF ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Digital Workflow, Stage 2: image selection
Last week we looked at archiving RAW files from a shoot. There’s an important point I failed to mention that should be throw in. When I initially back up my RAW files only the blank frames or total disasters get discarded. At this initial stage ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Digital Workflow, Stage 1: backing up digital captures
Shooting great photographs means little if you don’t handle your files properly. I’d like to share the outline of my digital workflow, one refined over the past few years at the photo studio. Workflow is a process that takes time and experience to ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
In earlier discussions we've looked at video of how to read a histogram and read why RAW files hold more information than JPEG. I'd suggest checking those entries out, if you haven't already.
To date I've stressed proper camera exposure so file manipulation will be reduced in post-production (especially important when ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
For the real tech lovers:
The recent DIYPhotography.net post on the very cool DIY Alex Spiderlight also pointed to my earlier battle of the bulbs shootout post, to illustrate some bulb options and comparisons for Alex Campagna's creation. There have been technical questions raised about the spectrum of light delivered by ...
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