Being Full Time Product Manager for Vistek in Toronto, I get to try out all of the latest equipment, and I have to say although allot of hard work, I do love my job.
On November 2nd, we hosted the Phase One 5 minute Fashion shoot out, at Pink Panther Studios in Toronto. This time I made sure to get a half hour on at least one of the sets before getting started so that we could have a good portfolio of images to share around with potential clients, and show off the great features of the IQ 180 Back . For those of you curious about the lighting, I did a classic clam shell light, consisting of an Elinchrom Octa Lite as my background (300RX), and 44 CM Mini soft Reflector, (600RX) with silver Deflector, as the Key Light, and some Lee Tough Spun as diffusion. The kicker light was a small Chimera soft box at 45 degree angle aimed up, (300RX).
Below are a few examples of the lighting setup, and a few of the finished Phase One Files.
For more info on the shoot, you can see the post on ProPhotoblog.ca
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Mark called me last week at the last minute, and needed a Corporate Headshot for his job, at Proctor and Gamble. Luckily I had some time on Sunday so I was happy to help him out. I think this final shot came out pretty good, shot with my Nikon D-7000, 50mm 1.4G lens, @ F-8. Lighting used 2 Elinchrom 500 BXRI.
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I haven’t written a review in a long time, but I thought that this was worth it.
I’d heard about Portrait Pro quite a few times, but never thought much of it. Got an e-news the other day that had a link to there website, and thought it’s a great price, maybe I’ll just buy it, and see how well it works. I really didn’t give it much thought. I have to say I was a bit skeptical because I thought personally that some of the photos on there site looked a bit to re touched and I’m not really into that look. I think re touching should be done in a way that it still looks more or less natural. In any event I bought the Portrait Professional Studio version, so I could use the Lightroom Plugin. I installed and was mightily impressed the way the software has a built in tutorial that teaches you how to use it every step of the way. It really doesn’t get much easier as far as software goes. So I grabbed a few shots to try the software with, and thought I would share the results below. The only thing I’ve not done yet, is to make a print. I would give this software 2 big thumbs up, as far as ease of use, and the amount of time it would take to do the same thing in Photoshop, the traditional ways. You really cannot go wrong at this price, on special right now for $59.95 Total time I spent on each image below was about 10 Min.
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Above is un-retouched accept for Lightroom edits.
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‘Above is re-touched with Portrait Pro
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Above is 100% crop of the image.
Left Side above is un-retouched, right side is retouched, one of the other remarkable things that I liked about the software was it’s ability to elongate the face, which made my model above have a bit longer neck, without distorting the image.
Above is 100% crop from re-touched version.
We got to use our Groupon on Sunday night to take a Sunset cruise on Toronto Harbours, tall ship the “Kajama”
I was a little disappointed that those beautiful sails never actually let loose and sail the boat, but we had a great sunset, and it was a fabulous way to see Toronto harbour.
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Every year I post some of my images that I’ve taken of the twin towers on this date. I cannot believe it’s been 10 years. This year I ask that you take a look at Andrea Booher’s photos, the links are below.
This is not an anniversary that we celebrate, this is anniversary that we reflect upon and remember the heroes of that day, and the days that followed. Being a photographer I find Andrea Booher’s photos to be the most significant from this event. She was the official FEMA photographer and was the only Still Photographer granted unlimited access to the disaster scene. I’ve linked to the FEMA Website with a search of her photo library, I’m sure that you will recognize many of these famous images, although you may never have known who took them.
I’ve posted enough of my own images of the twin towers over the years on my blog, all you have to do to find them is to search for Twin Towers, in the search box.
Below is a sample of Andrea’s work. More images on her website.
This image below was taken 8 days after, on Sept. 19th, as you can see the fires were still burning, the biggest complaints from Fire Fighters were that there boots kept melting.
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