Monday, July 7th, 2008
Process your own black and white film
Today's video is something really different, we'll take a break from lighting this week and get back at it next Monday. It's fun to change things up, it keeps things interesting and it seemed like this video could fill a need.
There are a ...
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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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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
In answer to another reader question: what's better, an umbrella or a softbox? Well, they're both light modifiers that soften light and in many situations they can give similar results. Here's a quick video to show some features of each:
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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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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Last week we looked at creating portraits with just one light. This week's video is a natural progression, building upon the foundation of one light portraits. Adding additional lights should serve a purpose and here they help add greater detail and dimension, as explained in the video. There's also a ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
This is a really quick video (just around a minute long) aimed at studio beginners. Nick left a comment on the quality of light video asking:
"I know that the ad blurb says it’s compatible with Elinchrom speed rings, but does that mean that any soft box will work, only an ...
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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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