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TWiT Photo 49: DAM Expert Peter Krogh
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Wed 04.04.2012
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Peter Krogh has been a photographer for nearly thirty years, working for publications, agencies, corporations and NGOs worldwide. He loves to tell stories with words, still photos and motion imagery. He served on ASMP’s board of directors for six years, and founded its Digital Standards and Practices Committee.
A widely-recognized industry leader, Peter is the Director of the dpBestflow.org project, and the author of “The DAM Book, Digital Asset Management for Photographers” (O’Reilly, 2009), the best-selling book on digital photo management. He has created instructional material for the Library of Congress, World Press Photo, Microsoft and Adobe, to name a few. He spends much of his time spreading the gospel of good image management and effective workflow worldwide.
Peters Tips:
1. When shooting kids, get wide and get down
2. Overdrive the Fill Light in Lightroom
3. 3. Back your @#$% up! (punchline to go with image – because data loss is not picnic.)
TWiT Photo 50: Elevendy
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Thu 03.29.2012
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Is it photography or 3D animation? A common question for creative masterminds, Dave Cox and Wil Wells, of Elevendy. Disregarding the mantra “get it right in camera” this creative production house makes their own rules. Learn the importance of planning, how to hide discreet meaningful messages in your images (including star wars characters), and how to get a client buy-in for off the wall concepts. The dynamic duo will also reveal the process of their Addy winning Sacramento Kings “Defend Your Honor” campaign.
** Bonus – In-studio shoot with both “C-Sharp” and Leo. See the concept drawing and shoot in action. Final result to be revealed in future episode!
Guest: Wil Wells and Dave Cox of elevendy.com
Tip from Elevendy:
“Pre-visualize your composite, planning leads to success”
In the world of compositing images, like anything else, chance favors the prepared. We’ll use a variety of “pre-vis” techniques depending on the project, the general idea/setup we have in mind, the budget, and most importantly the timeline we’ve agreed to for completion.
Below you’ll see some examples of the different types of pre-vis we’ll typically do. They range from rudimentary sketches, to decently fleshed out 3D models.
The main things we accomplish by pre-visualizing a shot:
Lighting Placement
Isaiah Luke Cage
Concept buy-in from Client
Thornton
Prop planning
Supermom!
Location scouting
Rovatron
Find out more by watching the video here or on iTunes. Next week: award winning celebrity and fine art photographer Michael Grecco. Have questions, suggestions or praises? Please email photo@twit.tv.
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View Sports Illustrated Staff Photographer Bill Frakes’s astonishing portfolio as he shares insights on how he often carries & triggers 25+ cameras, how he went from LAW school to one of SI’s Top Shooters, and why preparation & storyboarding are key. Winner of the coveted Newspaper Photographer of the Year award his clients include everyone from Nike to Apple and his editorial work has appeared in virtually every major general interest publication in the world.
3 TIPS from Bill Frakes:
1. When you have great light, always look 180 degrees in the opposite direction. The light will extremely different but equally wonderful.
2. When you’re shooting sports, pay attention to where you are physically. You have to be careful to never impact anyone else in the stadium–from the athletes to the spectators to the officials to your colleagues.
3. “Doing video capture always use supports.”
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Ever wish that you can just take off and go on a round-the-world tour? That’s what Gary Arndt did in March 2007, and he’s been to 114 countries and territories, and still counting. The multi-award-winning blogger showcases his photography and journey on his travel blog, Everything Everywhere. Time magazine named his blog one of the top 25 blogs in the world. Taking a break from swimming with whale sharks in Australia and spelunking in Borneo, Gary joins us in the studio and shares stories about playing photojournalist in the midst of a political protest in Bangkok, how looking like a professional photographer can get you places, and tips on how to pursue your wanderlust and the most efficient ways to do travel photography.
Here are Gary’s top tips:
1. Know where you are. Light for the location.
2. Bigger memory is better than more in terms of storage.
3. Backup! Backup! Backup!
Find out more by watching the video here or on iTunes. Next week: Florida based editorial, commercial and sports photographer Bill Frakes. Have questions, suggestions or praises? Please email photo@twit.tv.
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At the Wedding & Portrait Photography International (WPPI) conference 2012 in Las Vegas, Catherine is joined by 8 industry experts and insiders to convene on the controversial subject, Is Technology a Menace to Photography?
The luminary-studded panel featured renowned photographers such as Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Gibson, celebrity photographer and Help-Portrait creator Jeremy Cowart, reDefine host Tamara Lackey, Fast Track Photographer educator Dane Sanders, legendary wedding photographers Cliff Mautner and Jerry Ghionis, hot emerging fashion photographer Lindsay Adler, and glamour queen Sue Bryce. They engaged in a heated discussion about topics, such as the too-easy lure of technological gimmickry to smooth over lack of artistic know-how; self-education and cultivation of a unique creative vision with responsible and mindful use of technology; so-called “naive” art; the future of point-and-shoots and DSLRs in an age of camera phones; and the relevance of professional photographers over the coming decade.
Here are some quotes from the show:
Lindsay Adler:
It has nothing to do with the technology but about the person. In the end, if you’re a good photographer, if you have good ideas, that’s what wins.
Jeremy Cowart:
Photographers, instead of going out and pursuing personal projects, they are just obsessed with blogging, [social media, etc.] Sometimes I just want to scream on Twitter, ‘Why aren’t we talking about images?’
Greg Gibson:
iPhoneography makes photography accessible to the masses and as a result, it makes it easy to get fooled and tricked into thinking that now exposure’s easy, focus is easy, that photography’s easy.
Jerry Ghionis:
I believe the digital revolution has made us lazy. Many new photographers learn to shoot RAW, over and underexposed by two stops, do what you want in Photoshop, slap a filter, slap a texture on there, and it will be okay.
Tamara Lackey
You want the viewer to feel something when they look at the portrait, that ability to empathize with another individual and pour that into a portrait doesn’t improve with a greater pixel count.
Dane Sanders
When I am at my most creative, it has very little to do with what I can pull off technologically.
Sue Bryce:
If i know enough to sustain an income and market myself, in an industry that is so flooded with photographers and yet I can stand out, by offering a brand that is better than others, then who gives a f*** if I don’t know your old craft?
Cliff Mautner
I’m a much better photographer now since I went digital; my skillset has increased ten-fold. I think everybody here can say to themselves, I am a better photographer now because of digital.
Find out more by watching the video here or on iTunes. Next week: Travel photographer and blogger Gary Arndt. Have questions, suggestions or praises? Please email photo@twit.tv.
