31. August 2009 by Vin.

Gina and Pancake as the sun sets. Taken Saturday 8/29 at Corona Del Mar. There were tons of beach goers, barbeques, and what not.

Shows you can do with a G9 and on camera flash!

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18. July 2009 by Vin.

This solves a big problem for DSLR HD video shooters since the cameras don’t have built in time codes to sync audio from field recorders or multi camera shooting when editing in Final Cut. Plural Eyes analyzes clips and automatically syncs them for you. Pretty darn cool! I finally appreciate mathematicians…

http://www.singularsoftware.com

Similarly related, their easy setup to handle the FCP bug for speed change is free for the download.

http://brucesharpe.blogspot.com/2009/06/dslr-dual-system-audio-999-solution.html

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11. June 2009 by Vin.

Multiple points of contact
Viewfinder
shoulder mount
follow focus control

7 lbs with camera and typical lens

$3582.00 for the “sniper” bundle

http://store.zacuto.com/DSLR-Sniper.html

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10. June 2009 by Vin.

In any economy, photographers seek those clients who are willing and able to make orders large enough to allow a photographer to spending significant time applying her talent to each picture and still make a profit large enough to live on. In a down economy, many photographers are looking for additional clients regardless of whether their clients are in the optimal market segment.

To accomplish these objectives, photographers should be ready and able to take portraits in their client’s home, or anywhere else their client’s desire.

>>more

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5. June 2009 by Vin.

http://www.psd2html.com

This service takes your webpage design in a photoshop file and turns it into a fully functional and standards compliant CSS, xhtml or other.   I am pretty good with photoshop and basic html, but when it comes to CSS I’m out of my league.   This looks like a great solution.

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1. June 2009 by Vin.

Fantastically, the 5d Mark II does not allow you to control iso, aperture, speed during HD video shooting.  Now this firmware update gives you this!

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23. May 2009 by Vin.

http://photoslaves.com/?p=513

These images are pretty small, but in the coffee table book quite large and detailed plates look just amazing. Each shot is totally theatrical in nature, complex lighting and treatments, just amazing and thought provoking…and a little dark…

Fantastic photography and a well written article. I’ve had a chance to see the book with these plates, and the body of work is so large you could probably go through the book in a month if you put great effort into it, there’s so much to see and think about. Just beautiful, and a bit dark.

I notice that nearly all shots appear to be about the same “time” of day which adds to the spookiness; kind of like being in all places in that town at once.

There is a sadness to most shots that you want to get to the root of, to dig into and understand. Very powerful stuff!

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4. December 2008 by Vin.

Well, that fantastic new camera I preordered from Ritz in October is still showing “on backorder”.  Ritz tells me there’s been none of their allocation received by them yet, and I’ll certainly get mine when they get theirs.

Here’s what some people are saying:

http://www.unwir3d.com/887243/canon-5d-mark-ii-pre-order-and-shipping-release-date-update

http://www.canonrumors.com/2008/11/26/5d-mark-ii-shipments/#comment-3012

http://www.1001noisycameras.com/2008/12/as-the-canon-5d-mark-ii-world-turns.html

I am getting antsy as I’ve held off several projects waiting to take advantage of low noise, high ISO and the cool HD movies….

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