With the global decline is media due to advertising budgets being cut, it is no surprise that many photographers are finding that commissions are becoming harder to get. This has meant that freelancers have started to look more at the photography stock as a way of earning additional income to fill the gap. But selling stock is a bit of a mine field when you … Continue reading Keywording is Scary…Official
I have to say I really enjoyed this post as it reminded me of when I was working as a sports photographer for a national press agency. It is also strange to think that photographers use common soloutions to their problems, as I have been using the Pocket Phojo and a PDA for the last year to do remote transmitions, with the Nikon D2x or … Continue reading The good old days to the norm with compact image transmition devices
From the photosynth blog (the actual site is overwhelmed with hits at time of writing but you can read the blog here or view this video to see what it is all about and how photography is going 3D There is two URL’s for photosynth http://photosynth.net and http://photosynth.com There is a photography tutorial here as well as a how to video here Photosynth Blog We’re … Continue reading Photosynth is now Live
This is a very interesting video by Photoshop Retouching & Photography Tutorial Videos. However it does not surprise me that much as I used the G9 for some art nude, but just shows how versatile this little point and shoot is, as a backup for a photojournalist or as a stand alone camera. Continue reading Can you use the Canon G9 for a Fashion Shoot?
Just launched today, free version of the Adobe Photoshop, well online version anyway. So now if you wondered what your Canon G9 images would look like processed in Photoshop you can find out. Continue reading Free, yes Free Photoshop!
Oops…. Important Lightroom 1.4 and Camera Raw 4.4 Update The Lightroom 1.4 update for Mac and Windows has been temporarily removed from the Adobe.com web site. Those Lightroom users who have installed Lightroom 1.4 should uninstall the update and install Lightroom 1.3.1.(Mac, Win) until a further update can be provided. For those not in immediate need of the updated camera support available in Camera Raw … Continue reading Important Lightroom 1.4 and Camera Raw 4.4 Update
Adobe releases Camera Raw 4.4, Photoshop Lightroom 1.4 Thursday, March 13, 2008 | by Rob Galbraith Adobe has released v4.4 of Camera Raw, its RAW conversion plug-in for Photoshop CS3, as well as Photoshop Lightroom 1.4. New in both is support for the RAW files from nine additional cameras, including the Canon EOS Rebel XSi/450D and Nikon D60 plus a correction for poor results when … Continue reading Adobe releases Camera Raw 4.4, Photoshop Lightroom 1.4
Last week I covered a student demo on ‘Free Speech’ and decided to try the G9’s video in a very noisy environment. During the demo I was shooting stills with my Nikon DSLR, shooting the odd stills with the G9 but used it more for the alternative medium of video, which I shot on the 1024 size, even though it was going to be published to web so was probably overkill as the quality is greatly reduced when converted by video upload sites. The 3 1/2 minute video kicked out at 115MB
As a Windows user I decided to use Windows Movie Maker (which comes free with Vista and XP) and saved it to PC format. I was in a hurry and wanted something quick and easy as it was going to be uploaded to Google video or You Tube for web viewing so I was not going to get the quality anyway
Now with video there are two components the visual and the audio, unfortunately I had not tweaked the audio settings for the conditions so the wind filter was off (when it was very windy) and the sound levels were on auto (which might have been better on manual due to the high noise levels) but I turned up a little late. Being a small. light camera I also found it quite hard to keep it steady as well, not normally a problem I have with a handy cam, but I dare say I will get better.
I also have on my PC Adobe’s Premier Pro, Flash CS3 pro, Flash Video Encoder and Device Central (the later, formats the flash video for mobile devices) so I have plenty to play with in the future
for the Apple Mac and Windows users (check system requirements) who want more quality and versatility there is QuickTime Pro which allows you to do similar editing and saving the format for iPod and other 3G files in the H.264 format which gives high quality at a low data rate
There is a short piece on The Digital Story on exporting to web using QuickTime Pro which sells for £20 in the UK, $30 in the USA so its not expensive 🙂
I just found Bill Lockhart’s blog and his experience with the G9 its well worth a read and his images are fantastic!
I do have to say though that “Digital” is making photographers lazy, with film if you were lazy the results just looked crap, but digital and software…Well enough said!
There are too many tog’s out there just letting the camera sort out the image, and as Bill points out, he took great care to get the exposure right…the wise will research and experiment on this and may even try to apply the Zone System to digital!
Continue reading “Just what can the G9 do in a way of quality?”
Chuck Westfall – One of Canon’s Guru’s has been asked on Digital Journalist about the Canon G9 and reducing the pixels to better cope with noise Continue reading Would the G9 have less noise if it had 6-8MP instead of 12MP
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