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Hit the street with One Light!

Neil May 29th, 2008

I think Zack has produced the first dancable photographic learning DVD.

Break out your two step and Credit Card.

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The elegance of story

Neil May 17th, 2008

I’m off to shoot toady and thinking story.

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Catching the color blue, photoshop tutorial

Neil May 16th, 2008

I realized again how much I love the color blue when VFXY had a blue theme week.

Ever wonder why blue is such a wonderful color?

Blue is the hardest color for camera sensors to capture, and the hardest color for CMYK printers to print.

So how we deal with it in Photoshop is of utmost importance.

We’re sitting here on this beautiful blue jewel hanging in the galaxy, wouldn’t it be great if you captured some of that uniqueness in your images?

If you’d like to continue learning about the possibilities to accentuate and control the blue channel, purchase the Beautiful Blues Screen cast Training video.

photoshop tutorial video

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Mind like water: Practice the art of Meditation

Neil April 27th, 2008

Mind like water is a visual metaphor for a state of being. A nugget I hope you gain from watching this video is quoted “choice is a function of awareness, awareness comes as a function of meditation.”

So if no-one has ever taught you the goal of meditation let me help you “observe things from a place of non-reaction, which does not mean detachment, but means not attached to an outcome.” And this is my personal favorite photographic mode, allowing my own choices to be fully aware and scooping creative power from the natural surroundings….I hope you begin a practice of meditation into your life to help you create with a watchful eye and this article blesses you with the inertia to start that practice.

YouTube - Michael Beckwith - The power of Meditation

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Animals Explain what is art

Neil April 7th, 2008

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Adding a realistic handmade border with PhotoShop tutorial

Neil February 19th, 2008

Final image result:

Double Smiles

Download the fiberglass insulation texture used in this tutorial. Visit Texture King.com

This photoshop tutorial attempts to mimic the traditional printing processes such as Daguerreotype, wet plate collodion, hand painted emulsion and filing the negative carrier for full frame prints. These traditional photographic processes created printing effect that were generated as light passed through the negative, or print material leaving artifacts of hand made imperfection. Modern printing papers such as Innova, Hahnemuhle Paper, and Moab offer the digital artist a fast and tactile solution for creating wonderfully warm pieces in Photoshop.

So the object in Photoshop is to use layers and blending modes to create the effect of light passing through an imperfect emulsion. To do this you will need at least two layers, one in a darkening type mode such as Darken, Multiply, Hard light, or normal mode with light pixels erased. To finish the effect realistically, a second border must be applied over the darkening border so that the two borders interact three dimensionally.

Other shot’s I’ve created borders for:

Courtney & Charlie organic antique

You can download some border and edge effects from several Flickr Groups….

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One Action Preview screencast

Neil February 15th, 2008

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If you have any trouble viewing this video you may try the alternate video on YouTube at this link.

OK, OK - so no complaining - it’s my first screen cast. I’m getting the hang of it.

So here’s the finished image from the intro video run through the ONE Action.

sunrise engagement photo

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Neil opens his camera bag for you to see

Neil January 21st, 2008

Here’s a video of me emptying my camera bag of it’s contents, just for you to see what I take with me everywhere. The real fun one is the lighting case, but that’s part of the workshop - so I’ll save it for when you attend.

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Gear List:

  1. Canon 1D MarkII
  2. Canon 1Ds MarkII
  3. Canon 50mm f1.4
  4. Sigma 24mm f1.8
  5. Canon 90mm TSE f2.8
  6. Canon 135mm f2.8
  7. Sigma 70mm f2.8 Macro
  8. Sigma 15mm f2.8 Fisheye
  9. Canon 550EX Shoe Flash
  10. Canon 550EX Shoe Flash

Lighting / Accessories

  1. Digital Camera Battery High Voltage Pack
  2. Canon CP-E2
  3. Canon ST-E2
  4. Manfrotto 3350 Baby kit stand
  5. Photoflex XTS Softbox
  6. Photoflex 18″ umbrella
  7. Photoflex Shoe Mount Multi Clamp
  8. Pocketwizard (2)
  9. Sunpack Readylight
  10. LumiQuest Snoot
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Mine to define

Neil December 19th, 2007

 

Performance by Xero, lame video shooting by me.

“who needs a permit when you have poetic license, to kill”

“But my pieces are intentionally placed at eye level, although a high level might be my level most people wouldn’t be able to see it, so then it might as well be below sea level.”

What’s your favorite quote?

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Marc Hauser interview and video

Neil November 1st, 2007


His heart is the main inspiration for Hauser, “My vision is people coming into my world. I give them my heart and they give me their heart back. Ooh it feels so nice - we share. Two people committed to an idea and we work together to make it real.”

I also found this little DVD by Marc titled “Bold and Simple: The Light of Marc Hauser” might be interesting, might be fluff - anyone who’s seen it can leave their comments or review in the comments.

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