Thursday, December 18, 2014
Thursday, October 30, 2014
R2D2 Building and The Prudential Center
ILLUSTRATION - Pencil sketch of the Prudential Center towering over the newer "R2D2" building downtown Boston
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Thomas Knoll Photography Auction | October 5th - 11th
For the first time, Adobe Photoshop Co-creator and Adobe Fellow Thomas Knoll (http://tknoll.com) is auctioning six of his prints* to benefit a cause very close to his heart: "The Luminous Endowment" (http://www.luminous-endowment.org).
Thomas is an avid landscape and wildlife photographer and has participated in numerous trips with "The Luminous Landscape" (see http://www.luminous-landscape.com). The photographs in this auction were taken on his trips to Africa, Europe, China, Antarctica and India.
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Sunday, September 28, 2014
A Masterpiece Book on Color Theory Is Now on the iPad
When Josef Albers published Interaction of Color in 1963, it was nothing less than the gateway to an entire way of thinking. First, there was its size: The original edition was massive (about as big as a turntable and as heavy as a 20-pound dumbbell) and it wasn’t really a book. Interaction of Color was more a hands-on kit, with its collection of more than 150 printed silkscreen color studies, a corresponding book of commentary and second book delving into Albers’ famous color philosophy, that were all meant to be sprawled out on a table and interacted with as a way for students to learn about the relationships between colors.
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Saturday, September 27, 2014
Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York City
Friday, September 26, 2014
Product Review: Adobe Photoshop Mix
Mobile image editing is undoubtedly hindered by a number of hardware shortcomings, including the lack of horsepower required for intensive processing tasks. Adobe Photoshop Mix, a new iPad-only app, addresses that problem by turning to cloud-based servers to handle a trio of power-hungry Photoshop features that a tablet simply can’t handle. While Upright, Shake Reduction and Content-Aware Fill are the stars of this app (they’ve never before been available on a mobile device), Mix also offers less process-demanding tools and features, including a Cut Out tool for compositing, enhancements, preset “looks” and cropping.
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Tutorial: A Quick Way to Add a Subtle Punch to Your Photos’ Color In Lightroom
Photographer Trevor Dayley has put together a very handy little tutorial to give your photographs that extra ‘pop’ of color in Adobe Lightroom or Adobe Camera RAW without going overboard.
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Nikon D750 first impressions
This afternoon I had the opportunity to handle and shoot the new Nikon D750. Here are my initial impressions and observations based upon a limited amount of time in the store and standing outside.
The local camera dealer had two in stock at the store I visited and more at their other stores. The manager put a Nikon 28-300mm F/3.5-5.6 EDVR AFS lens on the body and said have fun. I inserted my memory card and checked out the camera.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014
How Many Studio Lights do You Really Need?
When it comes to the quantity of lights that one needs, opinions are often heavily polarized and a hotly contested debate often rages. There are those that are staunch supporters of one light while others claim that a handful of lights are needed before anything meaningful can be done. Ultimately neither group is right as there is no definable minimum or maximum number of lights that one should use.
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Entrance to Boston's Historic North End
ILLUSTRATION - Pencil sketch of Boston's Historic North end - entrace way across the street from the beautiful greenway
Monday, September 22, 2014
Stone and Wood at Winnekenni Castle
Boston Skyline from Columbus Park
Smoke Stacks near Boston's Back Bay Area
ILLUSTRATION - Pencil sketch of the sun setting on the old smoke stacks in Boston's Back Bay area and Chinatown
Red Brick in Boston's North End
OIL ON CANVAS - Looking downhill at the Boston Brownstones a couple of blocks over from the Old North Church
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Adobe Lightroom Plug-In to Show Focus Point
Matt K: "A while back I wrote a post on some features I’d love to see, but I really didn’t think would make it in to Lightroom. Well, one of those features was the ability to show me my focus points. At times, I’ll shoot the same photo but focus in different areas. As a landscape photographer, sometimes I’ll merge a few photos together (focus stacking) to get an ultra sharp photo. Other times, I just use one photo, but knowing where I focussed can help me in the future.
Well, a few blog readers pointed out a plug-in that I hadn’t seen before. It’s called Show Focus Points and it only does one thing – it shows you your focus point. After you install it, you just go to the top menu to Library > Plug-in Extras > Show Focus Points (make sure you’re in the Library module first)."
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014
NEW OFFERINGS FROM PANASONIC AND CANON AT PHOTOKINA
This year's Photokina exhibit in Germany is shaping up to be very interesting, especially if you are into the high end compact camera market. With smart phones obliterating the low end of the compact camera market, manufacturers have been looking at the high end as an alternative way to keep the segment alive. So far the leaders in this space have been Sony with the RX100 line and Fuji with it's X30 (and previously X20, and X10). There have been other high end compacts of course, but the it was the RX100 in particular that generated the most interest with its large 1 inch sensor. Well, it now has some interesting competition.
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Monday, September 15, 2014
New England Castle
Winnekenni Castle is located in the over 700-acre Winnekenni Park Conservation Area, overlooking Kenoza Lake, in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Inspired by stone buildings he saw while visiting England, Haverhill chemist Dr. James R. Nichols built it between 1873 and 1875 as a summer home, and he named it and the surrounding land "Winnekenni," an Algonquin word meaning "very beautiful." The city of Haverhill purchased the castle in 1895, and in 1976, the city acquired 50.8 acres of conservation land between the Castle and Lake Saltonstall. The Castle's elaborate Victorian interior was destroyed by a fire in 1967, which led to the foundation of the Winnekenni Foundation by a group of citizens. Today, the foundation is responsible for the upkeep of the castle and the surrounding land and trails. With the help of students and faculty from Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School, they were able to complete a refurbishing and remodeling of the building.
The Top 5 Ways I Use My Wacom Tablet with Lightroom by Matt K
I always try to sit down and think up things that have become totally vital to my Lightroom workflow. Sometimes those things are right inside Lightroom, but I have to say if there’s one non-Lightroom thing that I can’t live without for my photos, it’s my Wacom tablet. No joke. I know I shouldn’t have to say this, but Wacom doesn’t pay me a penny to write about them. And honestly, if you don’t own a tablet then this post isn’t even for you because it’s probably hard for you to envision where you’d use the tips/settings I’m about to give. This is for people that are as addicted as I am. I’ve just come to rely on my tablet so much, that I literally feel lost when I have to edit without it. I’ve even changed my preferences on which tablet I use because I travel a lot, and just got used to the Small Intuos Pro tablet because it fits right in to my laptop bag. Anyway, on to my point here. ~ Matt Kloskowski
‘Flash Paint’ Your Way to More Striking Portraits with This One-Light Setup
Rather than the speedlight being on-camera or triggered through a set of wireless triggers, this method of lighting a subject is done by ‘flash painting’ one pop of the flash at a time.
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Photokina 2014: Canon Fires Out the 7D Mark II, G7X and New Lenses
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Sunday, September 14, 2014
Manfrotto Pro Light 3N1-35PL Backpack
The first thing I noticed upon initially picking up the Manfrotto Pro Light 3N1-35PL Backpack was just how light it was. It truly lived up to the Pro Light name. When comparing the 3N1-35PL to my other bags, I could really feel the difference in weight. This was definitely the lightest bag I had ever used. Being light is a definite positive that is fully appreciated considering I regularly carry about 20 to 30 pounds worth of camera gear and accessories.
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Howard Huang: The Photo Hit Man
Taiwan-born, Hawaiian-raised, New York-based Howard Huang considers himself an urban fashion/celebrity photographer. Comics and Japanese anime are building blocks for the fantasy sets he creates for musicians, models and actors, from Lil Wayne and Jacki-O to Ice-T and Nicki Minaj. Huang often composites photographs to achieve his inner vision or an art director's storyboard idea.
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Julieanne Kost. Principal Digital Imaging Evangelist, Adobe Systems, Inc. Adobe Photoshop tutorials.
Great stuff from Julieanne Kost for Adobe Photoshop CC (2014)
Julieanne Kost. Principal Digital Imaging Evangelist, Adobe Systems, Inc. Adobe Photoshop tutorials.
Saturday, September 13, 2014
Adobe Ink and Slide
For visual artists, nothing beats putting pen to paper, but in the digital world these analogue tools might seem out of date. Not to the folks at Adobe, who have created the Ink & Slide, a digital pen and ruler designed to make sketching and drawing on the iPad a more natural and fluid experience. Adobe Ink is a fine-tipped, pressure-sensitive, three-sided aluminum stylus that employs Adonit Pixelpoint technology to give artists control and precision when creating images on the iPad. Adobe Slide is a digital ruler that lets you draw a variety of shapes on the iPad, including straight lines, perfect circles, snazzy French curves, or whatever your artistic heart desires. The Ink & Slide connects wirelessly to the iPad via Bluetooth, and integrates with the Creative Cloud to give you access to your creative assets in the Cloud Clipboard, along with all the Kuler color themes. You’ll almost think that you’re back in composition class in art school.
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Saturday, September 6, 2014
Friday, September 5, 2014
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Understanding Histograms in Photography
Histograms can be found in almost any modern image editing software. It is my guess that most current digital cameras, including some compacts, can display histograms as well – some even live as you shoot using your LCD screen. Such a persistent inclusion would suggest that histograms are quite important. Even so, many beginner photographers don’t seem to understand what they show. There is nothing wrong or shameful with that, as histograms may appear to be rather complex at first. Truthfully, they aren’t. In this article for beginners, I will try to teach you how to understand histogram. Hopefully, by the end of this tutorial, you will learn to “read” them and see if they are useful to your photographic needs.
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Monday, September 1, 2014
Most beautiful women in the world without makeup
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| Jessica Biel |
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New Boston Harbor Photo up today
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| Toward Logan Airport by Global Village Photography |
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Aerial Photographs of Beijing by Trey Ratcliff
I have been browsing the web for quadcopters and the aerial photography that can be taken with them and came across the story of Trey Ratcliff in Beijing. He was using his ‘New DJI Phantom 2 with Zenmuse H3-3d 3-axis Gimbal and Gopro Hero 3+ Black Edition‘ quadcopter to photograph the Forbidden City in China and was detained by Chinese authorities. They released him and confiscated his equipment but luckily for us he had already been filming Beijing for 5 days. Here’s some of what the photographer captured.
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Sunday, August 31, 2014
10 amazing photos that look like paintings
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| Southern California waves, by David Orias. |
Today we want challenge you with the reverse process: here are 10 photos that incredibly look like paintings. Let’s see if your eyes will play tricks on you as much as ours did.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (and more)
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| "Two Beds, Two Windows," 1981. © Jack Leigh Estate/Courtesy Laney Contemporary Fine Art |
The late Jack Leigh may be most remembered for his image, “Midnight,” a 1993 photograph of a sculpture called “Bird Girl” in Savannah, Georgia’s Bonaventure Cemetery. The image was a commissioned for the cover of author John Berendt’s novel, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. But Leigh’s career stretches beyond the single image. “Jack Leigh: Full Circle, Low Country Photographs, 1972-2004,” at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of Art celebrates his legacy. “While the exhibition’s primary aim is to explore and cement the importance of Leigh’s work, it also aims to continue his legacy of inspiring a new generation of artists,” said Tim Peterson, co-curator of the exhibition and chief curator of exhibitions at SCAD, in a press release about the exhibition. “Jack Leigh served as a defining influence for SCAD students and alumni, further augmented by important opportunities at the Jack Leigh Gallery.” The exhibition also includes work by photographers who inspired Leigh along the way, including Eva Rubenstein, Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, George Tice, Sally Mann, William Christenberry, William Eggleston, Lisa Robinson, Marcus Kenney, Tobia Makover and others.
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Hurricane Katrina Then and Now: Lifting the Fog of Memory
Faded memories can eat at you. You may try to remember, but only a fog remains. The true power of photography records the present to help us remember the past. In today’s digital age, memories are captured frequently only to get lost in our digital vaults, but when we do go looking for them again, they can fire the billions of neurons that string together the pieces and lift the fog.
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A Conversation with Ryan Muirhead on Finding a Calling
Ryan's career as a photographer started only around five years ago, since then he's made quite a splash in the film-shooting (and otherwise) community and become a constant source of inspiration for me. In this interview he chats with The Artist Report about the importance of living in the present, concurring (or at least learning to live with) failure, and how he's gone about weighing what he wants to do against what he needs to. If you have an extra 25-odd minutes this afternoon I'd highly encourage you to check out this video, you may be a better photographer for it.
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Director’s Notes: Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man
In most cases, books about films are published long after the film has been made, after it’s won enough regard that people want to delve behind the scenes to appreciate it on another level (the exception being blockbuster films, whose companion books are a regular part of the accompanying onslaught of merch).
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Monday, August 25, 2014
ESSENTIAL NIGHT LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS FROM CHRIS BURKARD
It’s hard to beat the enchanting feeling of star gazing at a clear night sky. You soon become lost in its beauty like a giant kaleidoscope full of shooting stars, planets, and glow from the setting sun or nearby cities. I’ve traveled to countless countries over the past ten years and some of my fondest memories occur long after the sun has set. Whether it’s camping near my home in Big Sur or witnessing a rare northern lights show in the Arctic, I’ve had the privilege and challenge of documenting these night landscapes.
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Sunday, August 24, 2014
IDA names Peter one of the 10 most famous portrait photographers!
Seeing this post come through over the internet was quite a surprise. For Indian Digital Arts to acknowledge me as part of this crew is a real honor and extremely humbling. I’d like to send a heartfelt thanks to them for considering me as part of this illustrious group of photographers.
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English photographer Tim Wallace reinvigorates the art of automotive photography, one luxury car at a time
Seven years ago, Tim Wallace decided he wanted to photograph luxury cars. So, the newly unemployed executive built a business plan and got to work, teaching himself lighting and digital imaging from the ground up. Today, he creates beautiful, emotive images for the most prestigious brands in the industry, including Aston Martin, Bentley, Ferrari and Lamborghini.
"I basically shoot the prestige car market," Wallace says, "which, in essence, means my career is based on shooting cars you can't afford, you don't really need, but you desire. With very expensive sports cars and luxury cars, you don't make that purchase based on fuel economy, space and ergonomics. It's an inspirational, emotional purchase. And an emotional purchase requires a sort of emotional, dramatic image. If you were to look at an advert for something like a Renault people carrier or Toyota, that would be based very much on lifestyle, economy, things like how friendly it is to the environment, and it's going to be a very different type of picture altogether.
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Using Live View to Focus your Camera
I gotta tell ya. One year ago I barely used Live View to manually focus on my camera. Today, I can’t live without it Note: I’m mainly talking about photos taken while on a tripod It’s one of those things that’s become so important when it comes to sharpness in my photos, that I’m amazed I did without it for so long. Basically, Live View let’s me zoom in (before I take the photo) on an area in the photo that I want to focus on, and use the focus ring on my lens to manually focus the camera so that area is perfectly tack sharp. I’ve definitely seen a difference in the sharpness of my photos since I’ve started using it.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014
More great lighting stuff from Joe Mcnally
I recently was fortunate enough to be allowed to play with a beta version of the Profoto Air Remote TTL-N units. That means, in short, the Nikon version of controllers for the already renowned Profoto B1 units. The Canon models have been out for a while, and now the remote for Nikon hits the market on Sept. 15. Hit this link for the complete skinny and specs.
So, here’s the good news. My first frame shot with the unit was bang on in terms of exposure. (Which I figured was pretty good, as, it being the first time in the field with them, I really didn’t know what I was doing, or what to expect.) But, despite my first time fumbling, the unit had an exposure lock right out of the gate.
Source: joe mcnally
So, here’s the good news. My first frame shot with the unit was bang on in terms of exposure. (Which I figured was pretty good, as, it being the first time in the field with them, I really didn’t know what I was doing, or what to expect.) But, despite my first time fumbling, the unit had an exposure lock right out of the gate.
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New Nikon Full-Frame for Sports Will be Called the D750
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| Nikon D750 |
Friday, August 15, 2014
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
The Winthrop MA Harbor Front
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| The Boston Skyine as seen from across the bay at The Inn at Crystal Cove |
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Importing Photos in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
"Lightroom is essentially a catalog management program and raw image processor combined into one. It is important to appreciate how Lightroom differs from browser programs such as Adobe Bridge, where you simply point Bridge at a folder to inspect the contents. The browser method is really suited for those times where you need the freedom to search everything that’s on your computer. The downside of this approach is that you first have to know where to look in order to find what you are searching for. Plus, you’ll be shown all the files that are contained in each folder. If there are also lots of non-image files to sort through this can make image browsing quite tricky."
This article by Martin Evening is slightly dated in today's terms, but still very basic and applicable to current Lightroom catalogs. Of all the Lightroom functions, the database is one of the most important things to get down. This article by Martin Evening (a Lightroom guru - books from Martin here) covers very important aspects of the import process and the full treatment and source can be found right here.
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Veritas! After Six Years, Harvard Art Museums’ Renzo Piano Home Is Nearly Ready: A Peek Inside
Curators at the Harvard Art Museums are spending the summer installing works in the new Renzo Piano-designed building, which has significantly boosted the university’s ability to display its wide-ranging collections. They’re working toward November 16, the date when Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum, closed six years ago for renovation and expansion, reopens as part of a new entity uniting three previously separate university museums.
Saturday, August 9, 2014
Making and Using a Massive 27-Bulb, 4′ Diameter Ring Light
Photographer Dani Diamond is the man behind one of the most impressive ring lights we’ve ever laid eyes on. With 27 bulbs and at four feet in diameter, this continuous-lighting setup doesn’t play around.
And after getting more questions about the light than he could possibly reply to one at a time, he decided to create the above video, explaining how he built it, why he built it, and why it’s his most treasured piece of lighting gear.
Dani's video on YouTube
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EyeEm update for iOS comes with EyeZoom
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Friday, August 8, 2014
Photoshop and Lightroom
IMO - this is about the best thing to come down the pike for photographers in a very, very long time.
Get the world's best photography tools for one incredible price. Photoshop CC and Lightroom are tightly integrated for a complete photography workflow across your desktop and mobile devices. Create composites in Photoshop on your iPad and refine on your desktop. Organize and enhance images in Lightroom on your iPhone. And automatically sync all your changes back to your Lightroom catalog.
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NG"s Photo of the Day
On a tour of Wat Mahathat, a temple in Ayutthaya, Thailand, Your Shot member Julian Bound spotted a large stone Buddha head sitting encased in a tree. "Its roots are said to have grown around the sculpture during a time when the temple lay abandoned and overgrown," Bound writes. "Drawn to the uniqueness of the statue, I knelt down to take the shot as rich sunlight played across the Buddha's features, making sure to capture the ground before the tree to give depth and scale to the image." National GeographicGlobal Village
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