Feb 28, 2008 - Model Workshop

Model Workshop Feb 28, 2008

More to later.

Gastown Pictures

I wont be able to make it to class this week so I posted my pictures from the fieldtrip on Flickr.
Here is the link if you want to take a look.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23861561@N07/sets/72157604085664405/

How to kill some time with Photography this weekend..

How to kill some time with PHOTOGRAPHY this weekend..

Hello everyone,

Well, it's supposed to be my afternoon off and what do I do....looking at photograhy on the web and letting you all know about my latest find!

I have known about this series for a while, but haven't checked it out lately. This guy, George Jardin, is touring the country and interviews some of the top photographers (being paid by Adobe). He's got a bunch of very interesting podcasts available for FREE download.

I may just kill my whole afternoon listening and watching...

In addition to the interviews, he's also got podcasts with tutarials for Lightroom, also free. Note that he has got an interview with Jay Maisel and Gregory Heisler, both of them are coming to Vancouver in May for Master Workshops.

Here's the link to the site!

Enjoy the show(s)

Photographer's Sites to Check Out!

Hello everyone,

here are some more weblinks to find some mostly free Photoshop tutorial documents:

Jean Miele
John Paul Caponigro

Oh, and here's Pooya's website link people were asking for:

Pooya's website

Where is the NOISE?

Another shot from the long exposure workshop last weekend (more to be found below).

This image was taken with a total of 20 stops ND Filter (two 10 stop filters stacked). The exposure was 45 minutes. Camera was the Canon 1Ds Mark III, noise reduction in camera was turned off.

Image was taken into Camera RAW and then Photoshop for cropping, BW conversion, and tonal corrections (increased contrast). No noise reduction was used, as it was simply not necessary.

The moral of the story? Got money, have no noise...

No seriously, it is impressive to see what digital technologies have accomplished.

Most digital SLR's available today will produce great quality for exposures up to 5 minutes. Above that, noise starts to become a factor.

Realizing that this is a niche technique, this fact will only be interesting to a selective group of photographers. As film doesn't suffer from noise, this would be the alternative to anyone not wanting to commit the $8000 or so for the 1Ds but still wanting to use much longer exposure times.

INFRARED Digital taken for a spin!

Hello everyone,

I hope you all had a great weekend!
I taught my long-exposure BW workshop, and had a great time playing with an Infrared converted Canon 20D that one of the students from the US brought with her. One of the great joys of teaching is letting yourself be inspired by your students, and this group featured many very accomplished photographers. We shot for 2 full days and could not have picked a better weekend as the weather miraculously cooperated and gave us 2 days of sunshine and dramatic cloud formations.

The images I am posting for now are all taken with the infrared converted 20D Canon. I will talk more about this in-class this week, but couldn't wait to share some right away. The following images have received just minor processing, mostly contrast and selective tonal adjustments. They were taken with exposures of up to 12 minutes, which smoothes out the water and clouds as they are moving across the sky. Shooting locations were Point Roberts in the US, White Rock, and Stanley Park.

The conversion of the camera is permanent meaning you have to commit to the infrared look. The conversion of this particular model was done by Lifepixel and costs around $450. Check out their website for more info and to see lots of example images.

And now, onto the photographs: