Presented in six short parts, each automatically starting after the last ends, I bring you the story of the early photographic process produced by the George Eastman House. The six processes covered are The Daguerreotype, The Collodion Process, The Albumen Print, The Woodburytype, The Platinum...
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Iridient Digital has released Version 2.2 of its Iridient Developer RAW conversion software (formally known simply as RAW Developer). RAW Developer has been Brian's product since the early first versions those many years ago. Though RAW Developer has evolved over time into today's Iridient Developer,...
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We recently often photograph in small historic towns and capture images that show quite a bit of perspective distortions. Lets have a look how we can improve it in Lightroom 5. Here is a typical image: [caption id="attachment_4094" align="aligncenter" width="680"] Hamlin[/caption] The new Upright tool in Lightroom 5 works...
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[caption id="attachment_3916" align="alignleft" width="408"] The top of a wine barrel[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3918" align="alignleft" width="408"] red tile patio[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3914" align="alignleft" width="408"] Bottom of Wheel barrel[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3917" align="alignleft" width="408"] concrete tile[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3919" align="alignleft" width="408"] Wooden garage door[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3920" align="alignleft" width="408"] Cloudy Sky Straight Up [/caption] As a Graphic Artist I...
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What is neorealism? from kogonada on Vimeo. As a cinema experiment: would you get if you pitted the director of The Bicycle Thieves against the producer of Gone with the Wind, and turned them both loose on the SAME raw movie material? History does have a...
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I've Got A Secret from TheCameraForum on Vimeo. I've got a secret, and it is called FotoMagico 4 from Boinx Software Ltd. I'll share my secret as the story continues below, but first some backstory about the footage and stills used in the making of "I've Got...
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Canon 5D Mark II HDR Video from Neumann Films on Vimeo. Working with a variety of the latest tools available are producing some amazing results. One such tool that is getting wide attention lately is Magic Lantern. Magic Lantern? No, this is not some new type...
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Canon 5D Mark III Continuous Raw Video with Magic Lantern (1920x1280 24p) from Andrew Reid on Vimeo. They laughed and called it an April fools joke when the news first broke. Nobody covered the story. Most said it couldn't be done. It has. Here is the...
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As with previous versions of Lightroom Adobe, we're launching a public beta of the new Lightroom 5 in order to get some final user feedback. Listed below are the main new features of Lightroom 5: Library Smart Previews The basic idea is to allow smaller previews and still be...
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If you look at Optimal Sharp V3 it is very simple to use. On the surface you have only two scripts as options: • Optimal Sharp V3 • Optimal Sharp V3 Plus (for extra fine detail) The results allow way more control than you may expect. Here is what you...
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Tonalization is a term coined by Dr. Shin’ichi Suzuki, the founder and namesake of the Suzuki Method of Violin instruction, and is defined as the student's ability to produce and recognize a beautiful, ringing tone quality on their instrument. Tonalization can be used also for other...
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We often use a two-step method to add additional processing to our images. The first step is to develop the color image to be kind of standard and natural (both subjective). But sometimes we want to add to the image a grungier look, convert it...
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An editor unknowingly affects the world of a guy just trying to get though his day. Filmmaker Jeremy Hunt and Autodesk present "Fix it in Post". There are several pretty good video editing products on the market today. Adobe offering a new updated version of...
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Mastering The Illusion of Perfection with Photo Retoucher Amy Dresser from PhotoShelter.com on Vimeo. Master photo retoucher Amy Dresser started out working for two years with famed photographer Jill Greenberg. Today however, Amy works for a wide variety of "A-List" clients including Playboy, Barbie, Britney Spears,...
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The Art of Texture Blending #2 from Bettina + Uwe Steinmueller on Vimeo. This Video Slideshow demonstrates some of Uwe Steinmueller's excellent Texture Blending samples. Created with FotoMagico 4.1 Part #1, the first slideshow video is here: vimeo.com/57507858 Please see outbackphoto.net for further texture blending information here: outbackphoto.net/news/2013/1/12/our-texture-blending-resources.html PLEASE RATE THIS STORY!...
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PhaseOne, the creators of the well known RAW converter Capture One Pro, today released Capture One Pro 7.0.2. Capture One Pro 7.0.2 is a service release providing a number of bug fixes, in particular for stability, and to add additional camera support. The good news is...
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