Christmas Christmas 2011

Its that time of year again.. Been a while since I have made an update on the site. Engineering has been great at taking ALL of my time away. Since Im off for christmas break I’ve been able to pick up my camera once again!

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Yosemite Mountain Climbing Photography

When I saw this video I was very impressed with its style, color, attention to detail and post process work. This is a great behind the scenes video that covers all the basic fields of behind the scenes information as well as giving you a great mood and sense of connection to the enviroment in which the video was fimled. Be sure to check out 2:40 for some cool triggered lighting..
The photographer Jimmy Chin has some very impressive photos, be sure to check out his site HERE.

 

 

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Kananaskis Whitewater Festival 2011

The 18th annual Kananaskis Whitewater festival occurred this past weekend at Canoe Meadows. Great weather and great events made for a perfect weekend. Here are a few photos from the past weekend. The first photo was featured on the cover of the Canmore Leader local paper.

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The Magic of Color!

This video highlights some intriguing points regarding the link between learning language and color perception. I’m sure that everyone has thought about it at least once.. “does everyone see the same colors as I do..?”
Check out this video for your answer.

Check out THIS petapixel article for a full length article describing this color recognition process.

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Photoshop and Lightroom Workflow

I thought I would do a quick overview of how I do post work on my shots.
1) First of all I shoot in full RAW. For landscape I will usually bracket 5 shots. This will allow me the maximum amount of play when im doing my editing (or if I screw up and clip the shadows or highlights..).

2) Then I move to downloading all my photos to LR3.4. I use a seperate calalog for each year. This way my catalog will mostly remain under 4000 shots for the year. This helps with speed and backup.


3) I parouse though all the photos and delete the junk and begin to work with what I like.

4) I do general tonal and expsoure adjustents with LR and do any tone mapping of possible HDR images with Photomatix Pro.


5) For most I photos will stop their post processing there, however some photos that I think have more potential will be imported into CS5 for final touch up.

6) In CS5 I will do everything from spot removal, scene adjustments, sharpening, filter effects, final color, burning and dodging to get the photo just to how I like it.

7) Share and post on Face+, IFL and wait for comments, thoughts and ideas..

 


Above, the first shot is a preliminary +1 exposure.
the second is a tone map of the 5 exposures from -2 to +2
the Final is a CS5 adjustment in which i have obviously removed many of the scene elements to bring focus to other parts of the photo..
Leave your thoughts below and be sure to check me out of Google+

 

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