Atwerpen en zijn kaaien zijn altijd een bron van inspiratie. Het is één van de redenen waarom ik zo gek ben op de stad...

Van de kaaien trokken we richting Waalse Kaai.

De laaste 3 foto's zijn op raakafstand van elkaar genomen.

Locatiefotografie is iets wat me enorm aantrekt, maar soms word ik overweldigd door de mogelijkheden. Het is soms moeilijk kiezen wat en waar, maar net dat maakt het meer fun en en grotere uitdaging dan studiofotografie. Het is iets waar ik graag verder mee wil en zal experimenteren! Stay tuned ;-)

Until now. Fortunately Adobe Labs have come to the rescue with their much improved color rendering package. Have a look at this comparison of my Hawk Dreaming landscape, the top photo is the new Adobe Standard beta profile, the bottom photo is the standard Lightroom ACR4.4 profile.

The rendering of red and orange hues is much improved in the new profiles so if you’re a Lightroom 2.0 or Camera Raw (you need to get at least version 4.5) user waste no time, download the profiles and follow the instructions from the Adobe Labs page and enjoy much improved colours! I recommend using the "’Adobe Standard beta’ profile in the package but try them all and see what you like best.

The exit sign and the conference room sign are from the Pontiac asylum I was in last friday.  Chris got ahold of me about an abandoned something I'd have to talk to Articia about it.

I need more dolls, about the same size to use as props, or even better models.  As well I need to gather together more props.

The self portrait again lack of better model, but then again really it makes a pretty good sp since I painted that on my wall.  So that works then.

Hope all of you enjoy.  Let me know.

The handsome fella in the white button down with the drink in the last two photo's is my dear friend Eric Clark.

This is the second set of pictures taken in the high hours of afternoon that I've used my saved presets on that I made perhaps the next set taken at these hours or even maybe these same ones at a later date I will rework.  Maybe.  Just throwing it out there, let me know what you think.

The Five Rules

In Adobe's Lightroom, there is a work environment that help make working on photos much easier. Sometimes, and all too often, do the toolbars or panels get in the way of working on photos. Well, adobe put together The Five Rules to help you understand the the environment better. I won't go into those here because they've done a great job on their own. I will tell you though how to get to the tutorial in Lightroom, and then I'll explain some Key Commands that they don't cover.In Lightroom, you can access the tutorial from the Help menu and then select The Five Rules.

The main items in the environment are:

• The Module Picker - which is where you control what work flow module you are in.
• The Panels - which are the organizational, informational, and tool work areas.
• The Filmstrip - which is the photo filmstrip view offering filtering and designating working sets.

Sliding Panels

Auto Hide & Show

This option causes any of the panels to automatically slide in when the mouse is hovering over it or slide away when the mouse is off of the panel area.

Auto Hide

This is almost the same as above with the difference that the panel will slide out of the way when you move your mouse off the panel area to work on the photos, but when your mouse hovers over that area, it won't appear unless you purposefully click your mouse and it slides back in to view. This is nice so that when you are moving the mouse around all the edges working, those panel don't start sliding out when you don't want them to.

Manual

This is the default and the panels will only slide in to view or out of view when you click on the arrows.

Sync with Opposite Panel

I wondered what this was and never got around to trying it out and now I have it on all the time. There are times when I want to hide the thumbnail filmstrip at the bottom of my window. And at the same time I would always want to hide the Module Picker on "the opposite side" as well. That's two clicks, one at the top and one at the bottom to hide both panels. With this option set, both panels at the top and bottom will hide and show at the same time when either one of the arrows is clicked, thus they will be "synced".

The top panel is only in sync with the bottom panel and the left panel is only in sync with the right panel. However, if you use any of the features above, like Auto Hide & Show or Auto Hide. This feature doesn't seem to "sync" like it does in manual mode.

Aside from that, this is a great feature and I used it all the time now.

Manny, originally uploaded by stephaneconnolly.

Strobist: Canon 580 flash to right of model
Murphy, North Carolina

Off camera lighting adds a nice contrast to the sun. With off camera lighting I place the subject facing away from the sun and towards their shadow, and illuminate the front of them with the flash. For a dramatic look, underexpose the background about a 2 stop difference from the foreground and subject.

Cactus triggers are the way to go for off camera flash, they're cheap and reliable. You can pick up a pair for roughly $30.00 USD. For this shoot, I waited until the night before the assignment was due. I ran down to the L&N Train Depot in Murphy, North Carolina and downtown Murphy to shoot. My two models, Pierce and Manny held the flash for each other while I shot each of them. If you're having somebody hold a flash for you, tell them to create a triangle with you and the model. Hold the flash up high, and point down towards your subject. This is easy lighting also if you're using a stand.

I had 2 hours to process the raw images, choose 20 and edit. This image I applied a lightroom preset filter for quick editting, and in photoshop I created a layer mask and adjusted the curves and saturation on the sky.

OT: Did I mention my fucking camera broke during this shoot? It sucks ass. The Nikon D70 is known to experience shutter failure and that's what happened to me. I wrote a letter to Nikon telling them about the incident and sent a scribbled stick version of myself having a blast with my once working D70, but that was about 2 weeks ago. I'm waiting for my pity surprise brand new D3 to arrive in the mail any day now (no guarantees, it's just a nice thought.) Once I start raking some money in I'm upgrading to the Canon 5D.

• Amount to +100
• Midpoint to 0
• Roundness to -100
• Feather to 0

Close Encounters of the Rubbery Kind Originally uploaded by yOOrek

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• Amount to -100
• Midpoint to 0
• Roundness to -100
• Feather to 50

I realize this is an abuse of the original intent behind Post_Crop Vignette but if this functionality lets me create quick frames before exporting photos to Flickr™ or Zenfolio I'd rather call it re-purposing instead of misuse.

Close Encounters of the Rubbery Kind Originally uploaded by yOOrek

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Without wax,
yOOrek (posting from Flickr™)

One of my hopes came true on my B-day this past Saturday night.  Two of my favorite peoples made a willing effort together and patched up a 15plus year friendship just for me, to my surprise.  Best present I would ever gotten that night.  My homegirl V passed me a drink and the party started, surrounded by my close friends, good music and plenty of liquor to go around.  I had my camera with me so I snatched up a couple of pictures.  Might post some up later, maybe.  Later that night, when it was officially my 38th, my brother made a toast on how important true long lasting friendships really mean and that had me choked up for a good minute.   

Overall, it was the best B-Day ever.  I want to thank everybody that either called, texted, posted a message or somehow reached out to me on this 38th year of my birth.  Luv U all!

New article posted up over at Phooey Pics on the new Adobe Camera Raw 4.6 & Lightroom 2.1 release update, link here.

Canon 1000D (Digital Rebel XS/EOS Kiss F)
Canon 50D
Fuji FinePix IS Pro
Kodak EasyShare Kodak Z1015 IS
Leaf AFi II 6
Leaf AFi II 7
Leaf Aptus II 6
Leaf Aptus II 7
Nikon D700
Nikon D90
Nikon Coolpix P6000
Olympus SP-565 UZ Pentax K2000 (K-m)
Sigma DP1
Sony A900

Hmm...great that Sony A900 is added to the list but none for my Panasonic Lumix LX3 whereas the Nikon P6000 is on.  Noted that the Canon G10 is not on the list either, so probably another update soon.  Full ink to Adobe's site here.

On the side, Lightroom have updated to 2.1.  Fixed a few bugs here and there. Check out full listing here.

Source - Adobe, Lightroom

Robert (B&W) Originally uploaded by yOOrek

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Without wax,
yOOrek (posting from Flickr™)

Robert Originally uploaded by yOOrek

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Without wax,
yOOrek (posting from Flickr™)

This is not a full tutorial. I assume that you will find the mentioned features of Lightroom yourself. This entry just describes how I used them.

I took the photo below some time ago knowing that the camera will be unable to record both the shade (stairs) and sunshine (one of the strangest buildings in Helsinki) correctly. My plan was to try whether this can be fixed in post-processing and/or to return to the location for a reshoot when the conditions are more suitable for photography.

First I used graduated filter to increase exposure in the stairs but not in the building. The exposure increase is strongest at the bottom of the stairs and weakest from the building to the top of the photo. The idea is the same as in a graduated neutral density filter except that in this case I wanted to increase and not to decrease light in the photo.

The building is still too bright so I need to decrease exposure there using the adjustment brush. I "paint" the building using a brush, first with a bigger and then a smaller, and then I can adjust exposure (or some other setting) on that area alone.

Once I've selected the whole building - I need to investigate whether there are quicker ways to do this in Lightroom - I can set the exposure and the result is below.

The photo would still require further post-processing but this was enough for my experiment and it should prove the point of this blog entry as well. Especially when Lightroom freezed several times when I was doing this. To be a better example, the exposure change in the building should be bigger but I'm just recording here what I did.

In some cases I could have just used the graduated filter to decrease exposure in the building (instead of increasing the exposure in the stairs) but then the walls of the buildings on both sides of the stairs would have become darker.

Un look un peu plus "Norfendre" pour la page accueil du site de la guilde. Il me manque encore quelqu'un à caser devant Tého, modifier les têtes de Léah et de Khuite qui ne sont pas les bonnes, et ce sera OK pour passer à la suite.

PS : la tête de Nolia n'est pas bonne non plus ( merci Wow model Viewer, quand on importe un skin de perso depuis l'armurerie le visage est rarement le bon xD ). Je me disais aussi que j'avais plutôt le souvenir d'une gnomette à couettes roses... ^^

Also not many pictures from the asylum made final cut as all windows were boarded up making for focusing pictures hard as it obviously wasn't as bright in the rooms as it appears in the pictures even with the help of those led light's I had in my camera bag of tricks.  

The pictures are seemingly out of order as the night's event's go but the first part of the gallery is images slightly tweaked in lightroom, the second half is not.

Anyway, I hope you all enjoy my photographic night.

Am I the only one with this desire (problem)?

El pasado miércoles nos encontramos con un par de amigos flickeros de Québec y nos fuimos a una salida nocturna por las calles de Québec. El tema era simple... llevar sólo la 50mm f/1.8 como lente, no usar trípode ni pasar de ISO 800. Un buen ejercicio pero sobre todo un buen momento con gente que comparte la pasión por la fotografía.

De izquierda a derecha mirando hacia a la cámara verán a Pascal, Luc, Catherine, Laëtitia, Stéphane, Lorrainey dando la espalda a la cámara estan Jean (izquierda) y Tania (derecha).

Mi primera foto que hice fue cuando salíamos de nuestro punto de encuentro... sólo crucé la calle donde estábamos y tomé este auto con los otros flickeros a la izquierda que se alejan. Justo el auto era un Ford FOCUS... calza bien con la imagen :D

Luego caminamos hacia el lado de Charest donde pasamos al lado de la Gare du Palais que es la estación de trenes de Québec. Como éramos 10 como era evidente nos separamos un poco en pequenos grupos. En este momento estábamos junto con Laëtitia y Patrick (que no aparece en la fotografía arriba porque cuando la hicimos estaban en otro lado con Francis) así pueden ir a ver sus fotos para verla de diferentes puntos de vista.

Luego nos encotramos con una ESSO en donde esta manguera de aire que estaba en el suelo iluminada por un foco de seguridad me llamó la atención. Si bien la 50mm no es macro (y no lo estaba usando invertida) a veces da la impresión de serlo al ver la reducida profundidad de campo que resultan al fotografiar un objeto a la mínima distancia a máxima apertura.

A unos pasos encontré esta panadería que salía de la oscuridad con sus 3 focos iluminando el afiche. Esperé unos minutos hasta que pude completar el cuadro con una persona que pasó delante.

Siguiendo por la rue Saint-Paul se encuentran varias tiendas de antigüedades y artículos importados. Esta silueta la tomé de una vitrina de una de estas tiendas. No pude evitar de tomarla con la silueta y la típica luz de interior que ayuda a crear el ambiente :D Estan de acuerdo conmigo?

Una de mis calles favoritas de Québec donde ya había estado de día:

Pero nunca de noche. Sólo una típica foto en profundidad usando como punto de fuga estos postes para evitar que los autos se estacionen. El tratamiento, como en todas las fotos que ven en esta galería, fue hecho con Adobe Photoshop Lightroom y luego los últimos retoques en Photoshop CS2.

Durante una pausa en la Côte de la Montagne todos nos pusimos a hacer fotografías de los autos que pasaban además de una motocicleta que estaba estacionada justo frente a nosotros. En realidad como ven no faltaba cosas para fotografiar :D

Seguramente mi favorita de la salida. Aunque un poco sub-expuesta (para congelar el movimiento) la tuve que recuperar en lightroom pero logramos ver sin problemas la agilidad de Lorraine que hizo este salto de danza al cruzar la calle frente a la Municipalidad de Québec. La idea era hacerlo iluminada con las luces de un auto que viniera hacia nosotros desde el fondo pero... finalmente nos quedamos con esta.

Qué opinan de la experiencia? Seguramente agregaré otras en flickr... para ver la galería completa de la salida pueden visitar la Galería Flickr.

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Il 25 - 26 ottobre ci sarà un seminario che riguarderà i professionisti e amanti di Photoshop redatto da "ARRIVANO I GURU" a Roma. L'incontro avrà come persona importante Mart Evening uno dei maggiori esponenti mondiale del digital imaging ed è entrato recentemente nella hall of fame di Photoshop.

Chi è Mart Evening?

Mart Evening è un fotografo pubblicitario londinese, noto esperto di fotografia e immagini digitali. Come fotografo di successo, Martin è ben conosciuto a Londra per il suo lavoro nel campo della moda e della bellezza. Ha scritto un libro "Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers" inoltre è anche l'autore di Adobe Lightroom per Adobe press ed è ricercato per dibattiti e conferenze in tutto il mondo. Particolarmente negli Stati Uniti, dove è un abituale oratore presso la PDN's Photo Plus Expo Conference di New York, collabora anche per gli sviluppi di Photoshop e Lightroom oltre a essere alfa e beta tester. E' uno deofndatori di Pixel Genius, una società di produzione software automatizzato e creativi "plug-ins" per Photoshop.

Mart Evening ha scritto il suo primo libro "Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers" e l'editore è Focal Press, in Italia con il titolo "Adobe Photoshop CS3. Soluzioni professionali", ha già venduto 250.000 copie in tutto il mondo.

Il British Journal of Photograhy lo definische come il padre di tutti i libri di Photoshop incentrato sulle questioni che interessano i fotografi

Il Seminario si terrà presso l'Holiday Inn Rome West di via Bogliasco, 27 in prossimità del raccordo anulare di Roma a pochi minuti dalla basilica di San Pietro, dalla stazione di Termini e dall'areoporto di Fiumicino.

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