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The visual demonstration of how focal length affects composition and faces is nice The OG of posing, Joe Zeltsman Online DOF calculator
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unrated: technical error/worthless 1 star: not bad technically 2 star: good technically, worth keeping around just in case 3 star: decent photo, sellable 4 star: great photo 5 star: the shot for the whole shoot i'll flag images that go in the porfolio I color things for further editing. I import everything straight from the card reader through LR. Make what adjustments are necessary. I then edit anything in Photoshop that needs it. PS is then used for composites and the like. I use ACDSee when I'm shooting jpeg, meaning a football game. After I'm done tagging and editing in ACDsee I import to LR for general management purposes.
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What does anyone think is the best (Windows based) program for tagging massive amounts of flickr images? I have a bunch of images that have little or no tags and I'd like to fix this as easily as possible without having to look at each image and adding many blanket tags and individual tags. I'd like to select a wide group of images and tag them all with the same thing, then go through each and tag them with specifics.
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When I'm shooting with a B&W conversion in mind, I shoot in RAW but set my camera to B&W. The JPEG preview is then rendered in black and white on my preview screen, but the file still has all the color information for the B&W conversion that I handle myself, or just in case I want a color print. Regardless of if you want to do that, shoot color and do the B&W in post. As for help in composing explicitly for B&W, start thinking about tones instead of colors (unless you want to start using filters, which you don't right now) along with your normal composition considerations. Read this introduction to the zone system and digital photography.
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Oct 23, 2009 13:50
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shoot type 55 with a camera made from locally grown timber and glass you ground yourself 
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Z posted:I'm quoting this like five pages later just to say that I tried to watch one of his critique videos and literally had to shut it off after about a minute.
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JaundiceDave posted:I like Chase Jarvis, because while he may be a bit of a ponce, he can still pull of some amazing creative work from time to time, like that ski shot he did with the strobes firing 8 times per second. Seminars a big deals these days. Lots of people with fancy cameras who have no idea what to do with them. It's kind of scummy. Arias and Jarvis do decent work, but that's where they make their money. Even Joe McNally does seminars.
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Just buy the drat IR remote for the D50. It's cheap and works with the bulb setting. I've done long exposures in the manner you describe with a D50 using RAW and didn't have the same problem.
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You guys are kind of talking about this, so: I'm trying to install an .icc profile on Vista 64 and getting a weird error. Anyone know what this is?
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I have a core2 duo 3.16Ghz with 8GB of RAM, I can't complain at all. Are you using the 64-bit version? Does LR utilize the GPU much? If so, maybe look at that? e: I've never changed any of the thumbnail/preview settings, so that's not it
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brad industry posted:Aperture locks up your metadata and rating and poo poo in it's proprietary database so you should use LR. Haggins posted:I thought about switching back to LR but it'd be a lot easier to stick with the horse I got than trying to relearn everything.
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What lies in the shadow of the RAW file
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AIIAZNSK8ER posted:hey peoples looking for schooling. I found this http://photohistory.jeffcurto.com/ its a college class that is also a podcast for freezies. I've listened to the first three clases from Fall 09 to make sure its not terrible. I've been learning alot so far because I have zero knowledge of the history of art or photography. The professor seems to be pretty organized and is an easy listen. It feels very much like a typical survey intro course, so his jokes tend to be pretty cheesy. I'm greatly considering going back to school in two to three years, and I plan on soaking up stuff like this and the big batch of reading material posted earlier to get me back into the right frame of mind. Thank you.
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Penpal posted:Ah! I just switched to google chrome and all my pictures look dark and lovely. There are several things you can do to make it look right on YOUR combination of monitor, OS, and browser (exporting from PS with embedded RGB colorspaces, editing in the correct color space, calibrating your monitor, etc.), and you should definitely do so because it's important when it comes to printing and clients. But, I would just let go of trying to make your images look perfect everywhere. You'll never control the viewer's crappy Acer LCD screen and Internet Explorer with Ask! toolbar, even if their setting was using the correct color space.
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The big fancy Apple tablet or whatever is supposedly released tomorrow. I'm interested. It would be amazing to use while shooting to let clients easily proof images right as I'm shooting them. Is there some sort of solution (from any camera manufacturer or any other software house) that would let my camera send images via Eye-fi card or a dedicated wi-fi unit straight to a device like that? Even better (and dreaming now) one that would only send the JPGs? I know the chances are virtually nil, but it would be FANTASTIC to do something like that. e: or jesus imagine being able to check histograms and stuff on that huge screen with touchscreen controls uuuuuuunf JAY ZERO SUM GAME fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Jan 26, 2010 |
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Does anyone have health insurance through ASMP? Do any of the programs they offer have good rates? It seems you have to log in to find out more information. I know an ASMP membership is great for me to have, but my budget is reeeeeally tight until April, so I can't purchase a membership anytime soon.
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psylent posted:Can anyone explain how Joey L is so successful at such a young age? It boggles my mind. I'd say he made a great use of whatever money was left to him, he's only improving.
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A good way to figure out what themes, elements, styles are interesting or meaningful to you is to see what others have done. Read about photo history. Also, hahhahah holy poo poo
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Nausea posted:There are lots of words here, sorry. But i'm in need of a bit of advice.
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There are five companies pushing their presumably "unlimited space/bandwidth but not so unlimited CPU power" web services in SA Mart. I'm moving away from smugmug and hosting my own site, just need something basic that will also handle perl. Does anyone use these to host their personal websites? Any experience with downtime?
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Host Gator doesn't sound like a company I want to do business with. prgmr does, but I don't have that level of Unix experience. I have the site ready to go, I just need to upload it and set name servers, etc. e: it sounds like I would have to set up apache and the like if I used prgmr. It's been nearly ten years since I touched any of that, and if I were to need a large amount of control it would be to implement credit card payments and the like, but that's far in the future and I would pay someone to do that. JAY ZERO SUM GAME fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Mar 26, 2010 |
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Smugmug is poo poo and a pain in the rear end for web design. I'm not even sure I'll keep the print portion around after I migrate over to my own server. Mediatemple looks to be my solution, thanks. ---- Does anyone have a link to the thread where woot fatigue explained his process? JAY ZERO SUM GAME fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Mar 26, 2010 |
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What monitors that aren't AdobeRGB specific (and therefore fuckoff expensive) are used professionally these days? I have a Cinema Display that I love, but I want something that has more inputs and is HDCP compatible. I remember there were a few Dell monitors that were super cheap and still had H-IPS panels with lots of inputs and were around 24", but I'm clueless.
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e: this probably belongs in SH/SC
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pages 424-426 were a lot of fun, thank you
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It’s not strictly photography, but Josef Albers’ ‘Interaction of Color’ has educated artists better than anyone reading this forum for 50 years Highly recommended
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A good book to understand exposure and how your camera works is Ansel Adams’ ‘The Camera’ All the principles are the same, but anytime he talks about exposing for shadows, imagine he’s talking about exposing for highlights.
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xzzy posted:There's belt holster systems out there which I think might be the fastest way to do it.. but comes at the cost of looking like a mega dork.
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is silver efex still the plugin to use for b/w conversion it's what i used to use, found it very powerful and roughly analogous (such that it can be) to darkroom work the one thing i've never been able to replicate in lightroom is photoshop's ability to dodge/burn only highlights/midtones/shadows, but i've not farted around much with the newest lightroom, or this new silver efex
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anyone made a switch from lightroom to DxO photolab? kinda sick of the subscription thing, and since i so rarely change cameras/lenses, if a piece of software works, it works. the way it handles RAW files, at least from an a7riv, is hands down superior. i print huge, so the noise/detail matters. i haven't really found something it won't do. i use masks very infrequently, and photolab's dust spot tool is adequate. silver efex pro has been a go-to for a long time, as well. lightroom's catalog/metadata management is useless to me ...i guess i'm wondering, is there something i might be overlooking here
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i would highly recommend finding someone local so you can do test prints easily and see papers quickly but if you just want something cheap and fast, i've used artisanhd.com. they have some decent options
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DxO is having a black friday/whatever sale, if you want to get out from under adobe's boot If you don't need LR's library management and bulk processing tools, I've found DxO Photolab to offer superior image quality and noise control; like not even close. that's as a 15+ year LR user
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I figure I have this camera body, this computer, and neither are changing for a long time. May as well buy software that I like with both and be done with it.
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Use DxO photo lab I used LR since it’s inception and got sick of the subscriptions last year. I was pleasantly surprised to find it handles RAW files much better than LR, at least those from my a7riv
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Interaction of color by Josef albers. The book that most modern artists learned color theory from. Read it.
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bobmarleysghost posted:Lmao these are super terrible
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Lily Catts posted:Understanding Exposure is pretty good because it's laser-focused on making you take correctly-exposed photos (a common thing newbies and even intermediate photographers struggle with). It's made for digital photography in mind and while imaging tech has vastly improved over the years it's still aged very well I’d argue that adams’ book 2 ‘the negative’ is equally worthwhile. The zone system perfectly applies to digital photography, only highlights are the challenge, not shadows. Really adams’ three books (the camera, the negative, the print) are all valuable.
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Megabound posted:Just shoot black and white, problem solved
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Koth posted:What is the recommendation for non-subscription based photo editing software? I used Lightroom forever, but now I don't use it often enough to warrant the subscription fee. I'm not necessarily looking for free software. I don't mind buying it, but it doesn't make sense for me to pay a monthly subscription fee. i made the switch to DxO Photolab 6 ~6 months ago. never looked back. i had used photoshop since its debut
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It is always okay to make a photograph of anyone in a public setting, except other peoples’ children, cause that can get a little problematic Whether or not anyone likes it is another question,
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