Фотоссылки

  • 19 Tips To Get 300 Client Inquiries. Несколько дельных советов для свадебных фотографов по улучшению бизнеса. Актуально больше для западного рынка, но и для нашего тоже найдется.

    Website: make sure you have your best stuff on there. It’s a first impression. All too often I’ll look at a website and see sub-par material. I know these guys too and know they have much better material. It boggles my mind.

  • Blossoming. Вот же маньяк. Не, МАНЬЯЧИЩЕ. На свадьбе отснять панораму из 60 кадров на 85 мм.

    This one took a bit of time to stitch together — close to 60 shots with an 85mm f/1.4. I’ve given a few tutorials now on how to do my ‘bokeh panorama’ technique, but I still get questions. How much to overlap shots? How do you deal with vignetting? and, of course, ‘I still don’t get it.’

  • More than just cheap plastic cameras. Какие очаровашки.

    A cheap plastic camera doesn’t have to be naked and ugly! Here are some of my works on various ‘toy’ cameras.

  • Lightroom2 + Yandex.Fotki. Хорошее дело делаете, товарищи. Хоть лично мне от этого ни жарко не холодно (не сложились у меня отношения с лайтрумом), но всякую движуху такого рода я очень люблю и уважаю.

    До недавнего времени я пользовался плагином, написанным Александром Артеменко (http://svetlyak.ru/blog/lightroom-plugins/), но функционирование меня не совсем устраивало, и недавно плагин вобще перестал авторизоваться на сайте. Было решено провести “расследование”. После общения с Александром, плотного тестирования и выяснения причин некорректной работы я приступил к работе. За основу был взят ранее упомянутый код (версия 0.2.3), но в процессе код был полностью переписан (остался практически нетронутым лишь маленький кусочек), поэтому я решил выложить плагин от своего имени и вести собственную ветку.

  • The Best Camera in the World ... Интересные хотелки. Особенно любопытно про умный программный режим:

    Hyper-Program worked like Program mode, except that if you dialed the shutter button, it would immediately change to Shutter Priority (Tv), as you change to specific shutter speeds. Similarly, if you dialled the Aperture dial, then the camera instantly changed to Aperture Priority mode (Av), as you set the aperture. No need to switch mode dials on the top of the camera. You just turned either the aperture dial or shutter speed dial to change between the modes at will. And if you wanted to return to the usual Program mode, you just hit the * (star) button. Intuitive and simple. (And no, this is completely different than Program Shift.)

  • 18 Photoshop Brushes To Lighten Professional Designs. Симпатичненькие кисти для фотошопа, предназначенные для рисования световых эффектов.

    Creating spectacular Abstract effects using Photoshop Brushes is something always exciting and innovative.

  • Too much Photoshop? Judge for yourself. Интересная статья о принципах судейства на датском конкурсе фотографии “Picture of The Year”. Речь идет о границах разумного при постобработке цифровых репортажных фотоснимков.

    Three photographers were told to deliver their RAW-files for closer inspection, when the three judges in January were assembled to select the winners in Picture of The Year in Denmark. This is the first time in the competition’s 35-year history that it has happened. One of the photographers, Klavs Bo Christensen, has accepted to show his RAW-files for the readers of pressefotografforbundet.dk. You can also hear a recording of the conversion between the judges about the photographer’s story.

  • Pulitzers Announced; Patrick Farrell’s Images of Haiti. Пулитцеровка на этот раз по жесткости превзошла сама себя.

    Pulitzer Prizes were awarded today. The Breaking News Photography Pulitzer was awarded to Patrick Farrell of the Miami Herald for his coverage of the victims of disastrous storms in Haiti in 2008 and the Pulitzer for Feature Photography went to Damon Winter of the New York Times for his coverage of the 2008 Presidential Election. Damon Winter’s images can be viewed at The New York Times Website. Below are Farrell’s images from Haiti. He visited the island four times in 2008 and was on the island as Hurricane Ike came ashore.

  • Presidential pets: Past and present. Симпатичная запись в блоге Reuters о домашних животных американских президентов. Разумеется, много классных фотографий.

    “Sasha and Malia, I love you both so much, and you have earned the new puppy that’s coming with us to the White House.” -Barack Obama