Indecent Exposure 30: Inspiring examples
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Hey Lori and Matt,
I recent have my Canon EOS 40D for about a month now. While I was taking pictures of my dog, I was thinking about the life of my shutter. Most cameras have a cycle of 100,000. When it comes to replacing my shutter which would be better to do? Send it in to have a professional to fix my camera or do it myself?
Thanks guys!
James
Hello Lori and Matt,
I've heard about your podcast from a promo from BOL a few months back and now look forward to your podcast every week. My question is regarding photo printers. I do portrait work on the weekend (portable backdrop, 2 speedlights ) one of the services I provide is 5x7 prints on location. My location work flow for this is, camera tethered to my notebook, do some level adjustments in Aperture then I send it to an HP A636 connected via USB.
What I'm finding is that my prints are darker and seem to have a more reddish/orange tint to them (it is somewhat similar to getting really excited with the saturation bar in Ps/Aperture where everyone looks like they have a bad sun tan. Even though the picture on my screen looks fine.
I calibrate my monitor every two weeks using Datacolor's Spyder system. When sending prints to my local Costco my colors are as it should be. It is only when using the A636. I tried to download a profile for the A636 from HP's website but none exists.
What I would like is a recommendation for a portable photo printer that does 5x7 prints that can work with Aperture. As right now I am guessing what the printer my print so it really looks desaturated on the screen but prints out OK.
Or is my only solution is to have 2 display profiles one for Costco prints one for on site prints. The only downside to this is that I would need 2 edits of the same image.
Help!
-joey
Hi Lori:
I am in the market for a camcorder for the sole purpose of using it for taping my golf swing. It just needs to be a clear image with the ability to play it back at very slow speeds.
thanks!
Mike
Senior Editor Lori Grunin has been covering digital imaging for two decades, but her memory's kind of sketchy on the details. You can hear about it every week on Indecent Exposure, the podcast she co-hosts with Matt Fitzgerald.
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Lori Grunin has been an avid photographer for almost 30 years, and spent the past 15 attempting to master every aspect of technology.
Matt Fitzgerald has been involved with digital camera technology and the photo industry for more than 15 years. Matthew's background includes work as a professional photographer, a technical representative, and a repair technician.
I did google some of the products both Lori and Matt mentioned and unfortunately the prices are WAY out there, especially for the small amount of work I do. But do understand if I want to provide quality prints on site that I'll have to get one of those printers.
Holidays are here and I'll just have to get out there more with photos to save up for it!
Thanks again and keep up the excellent podcast.
-joey
Barry
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Thanks for another great show this week. Love the conversation on the photos in the weekly competition, I really enjoyed listening to what made different photos appealing to you.
Here is a link to a macro shot I was particularly pleased to get this summer. It's of a Dragonfly eating an ant! I had never seen this happen before and was pleased to get a shot. It was one of those times when a photographer doesn't get a lot of time to mark decisions on composition and camera settings. Fortunately I think it came out OK. I would love to know what you think.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leeadc/2808538827/
Regards, Lee.
Around here are not a lot of exotic animals to shoot (take a picture of).
http://stankus.smugmug.com/popular/#323994487_2WfMY-A-LB ( my submition )
and here is a profile of the same guy zoomed out.
http://stankus.smugmug.com/popular/#323995152_gPAcC-A-LB
That whole Sea Horse was only about 3-4 inches tall.
Here is my entry for the macro contest
For all my love for Jackson Pollock I couldn't resist to take a dive at the amazing detail his work has. So I went to the MoMA and took this one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bloodless/2751082451/
You can actually see a nut just lying there, love it
Hope you like it
- JD
Here is the photo for this week's contest. It was taken in an exhibition, Lizards & Snakes: Alive!, in the American Museum of Natural History. If it weren't in a museum setting, I may not be able to get this close in the actual environment that they live with my compact camera.
https://www.photoshop.com/express/index.html?user=wenjied&galleryid=85b8d36bb5c14ede9a39b81783110459&wf=share&trackingid=BTAGC
-Wenjie
Here's my entry for the macro contest:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v40/mgswong/myspace/?action=view¤t=ant02.jpg
It's when ants decided to invade my room. They're on a plastic cup of soda if you're wondering what they're on. I thought it looked pretty amazing when they all gathered around a dry spot of soda.
Anyway, just thought I'd share. Enjoy!
--Bruce
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Keep up the great podcasts!
This the photo for this week's contest. These just appeared in the garden, so small and beautiful. They stand about 2 1/2 inches.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kmacke/2914070410/in/set-72157600367870543/
Hope you like it as much as I do.
My submission for the macro photo. It was a toss up between this one, and another of a lady bug that I took by holding my 28-80 lens backwards in front of my camera and shooting through it the wrong way. But, that is only interesting because of the process.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/timhughes/2913529721/
Cheers, Tim.
Thank's for your great show, it is always a pleasure to listen to you on week-ends.
Here is the link to my picture for the macro contest: http://pierre.grydbeck.com/macro.jpg
It's not another ultra-sharp typical macro picture, but I like it (i love taking pictures of food ;-). It's a picture of chineese springrols with salad. Since I don't have any macro lens I shot this with nikon's 50mm f1.8 lens with the aperture WIDE open. The light came from a few candles so unfortunately the ISO had to big quiet high.
Hope you will enjoy,
Best regards, Pierre
I've been listening to your great podcast for some weeks now.
I used my Fujifilm S5700 in macro mode, used my closet door as background and natural light from the window: http://thecurlybeast.deviantart.com/art/Myopia-91753584
Hope you'll like it
thanks for an amazing podcast!
Here's my entry for the 'Macro Competition': http://gallery.me.com/andrewirvine#100233
Keep on doing what you do... Loving the comps!
Kind Regards : Andy