I was chatting to Sanchia about doing panoramas and remembered this technique from Ryan Brenizer.
Photoworx Mike asked me to help shooting the GKR Karate World Cup 2009 at Victorian Netball Centre. Day 1 of competition. 15 August 2009. The sparing event was one of the most challenging action sport I’ve had to shoot to date. Click on the image below for more photos.
How to make Lightroom go faster by Lloyd L Chambers!
This is a good reference for shooting tethered from the Adobe Killer Tips web site.
This is cool service: Blend Your Own Coffee
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La Kitchen | Madrid
A Reuters story reckons ski racing is “the most difficult sport to shoot!”
Pretty cool photos and how to guides at the end of the article.
Here’s award winning photographer Vincent Laforet‘s photo essay on packing his camera equipement for the Olympics
This looks like a lot of fun: Fake model photography: “With a very little effort, you can take existing photographs of everyday scenes and make it look like they’re actually of miniature models.” And another tutorial here.
Found this ref page for Web Color Codes.
My Drobo arrived today. Got a few Samsung 750GB disks for $99 at Centrecom to put in them. Let’s see how it goes…
It’s a beauty – but time to move it out of the cupboard:
Ken Rockwell has written an interesting piece about shooting in 5×4 ratio. So I’ll give it a try and see how it comes out… It’s a shame to throw away the pixels though.
Like Strobist – this is a great resource of how-tos pro photo life.
I want one of these Patagonia carry on bags for my next trip… I currently use a Lands End bag which I’ve had since 1988 that can hold a small elephant, but this bag looks like it can hold a large elephant.
Got my set of Strobist Lighting DVDs today. Am watching and learning over the next few days.
This is a really cool hack to get a SB-800 to be an optical slave: 1. First, turn on your flash.2. Now get into the submenu by pressing and holding the “sel” button for 2 seconds.3. Arrow right (the “single tree” button) to get the upper right quadrant highlighted.4. Push the select button again.5. Scoll […]
Jon Udell wrote about a pretty cool way to get extra security for your checked bags here. Has anyone actually tried this? – in Australia?
OneLight DVD: This DVD tutorial looks like it’ll be worthing buying. Zack already has a great tutorial on shooting with white seamless background on his site.
Getting Ready for the Close Up: A nice piece on UK photographer Platon about portrait photography. Video interview here.
One day I’ll have My Day With Jay: If you ever get to the point that you think “it’s about the camera,” you should spend a day with Jay. He could make magic with a Kodak disposable camera.
I picked up an AlienBees ABR800 Ringflash used from a nice chap from Iceland. I can’t wait to see some of the people and product shots using this light.
