To keep you from being bored these holidays I searched something to occupy your mind during your free time.
I found a little dated article from April this year on smashingmagazine.com which listed 40 onluine photography magazines. I checked out a quarter or so and there is a lot of excellent. Check it out here.
I recently read about the HDRspotting project of Trey Ratcliff, the guy behind stuckincustoms.com in this article on Scott Keleby’s page.
It a social network for photographers who are into HDR photography. This guy, Stuard K Reid was so kind to invite me to contribute my work as well. One of my pictures is already up and can be seen here.
I highly recommend this page to all of you who are interested in HDR at all. Trey is a real genius on this topic and there are a lot of high quality shots to see for you. I already learned a lot just digging through the site. and more importantly getting in contact with others to share knowledge on HDR.
I has been a while since my last potw, but however, this week I post a image from my archive that I shot in 2008.
It is an HDR of the dome of Magdeburg, three exposures merged with photomatix and slight adjustments made with lightroom afterwards.
You can also see this on flickr by clicking here.
I hope you like that…
Cheers Matin
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom v2.6 is available as I write for Windows and Mac as well as Adobe Camera RAW v5.6 for Windows andMac.
Release Notes
1) Camera Raw 5.6 and Lightroom 2.6 provide a fix for an issue affecting PowerPC customers using the final Lightroom 2.5, Camera Raw 5.5 and DNG Converter 5.5 updates on the Mac. The issue, introduced in the demosaic change to address sensors with unequal green response, has the potential to create artifacts in highlight areas when processing raw files from Sony, Olympus, Panasonic and various medium format digital camera backs.
2) The Lightroom 3 beta has not been updated with this new camera support. If you’re working with one of these newer cameras and the Lightroom 3 beta, please use the DNG Converter 5.6 to convert proprietary formats to DNG files that can be used in the Lightroom 3 beta.
3) This release includes improved camera profiles for the Leica M9 and Ricoh GXR.
There is a new cool app for the Apple iPhone that let’s you make and later share lighting diagrams for off camera lighting, it’s called STROBOX. You can get it directly from the iTunes store by hitting the link.
I, myself have only briefly tested it but it seems that almost everything is in there. There are some special lighting modifiers that can not be found (e.g. ringlight on camera like) but most is in. Hey, it’s free anyway. So give it a try!
4 Stars from me!
Cheers M
I just saw while surfing that there is whole new beginners guide to filmimg with your video compatible D-SLR. Just head over to dpreview.com or hit the link.
http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Guides/hd_beginners_guide_01.htm
I thought this could be interesring… For me it will be for sure because still I’m a total noob to all this video stuff. Anyway, I have this function and from time to time, it tickles in my fingers to press the viedo button. But in the end, most of the time only crappy, shaky and hectic viedo come as a result. Perhaps this will change from now on. Who knows…
That’s all for now because my plane to Milano (Italy) is leaving soon.
M
Hi folks,
I totally reconstructed and refurbished my main website. A lot of friends were telling me that the original site was not really intuitive to use and it was rather hard to find the information needed. THough I made the effort and layouted everything in a totally new way. I additionally added new content which in some cases (e.g. the “about” section) is not entirely finished.
I would appreciate your comments and suggestions how to further improve it!
Here is the link: http://www.martinzeile.de
Btw. thanks a lot to the people at wix.com who made such a great (free!) tool to create flash sites – despite of the name, which in german means “wixen = to jerk off” (urgh) – but nevertheless really really recommendable!
Black raven on my (!) black car – creepy!, ursprünglich hochgeladen von martin zeile photography
As Chase Jarvis pointed out “the best camera is the one you have with you” I was driving home this night, stopping to replenish my gas when I got totally the creeps by this raven who was totally comfortable sitting on my car’s side mirror. Halloween, shortly in the past this could’ve been a bad omen straight out of a horror movie. I was fortunatly quick to get out my iPhone to shoot some pics before he was bored with me. By the way, I made it safely all 290km to my home. Peeeewww….
Crane-2, ursprünglich hochgeladen von martin zeile photography
Damn, I’m far back the goal to post one image a week, even oce every two I missed badly. For next year I hope I can keep up better to my goals.
Anyway, back from the maldives the first shot I share is this one of a crane which was to kind to me. I could get as close as two meter before he slowly walked and than flew away. I nailed a few shot with my 70-200 before he decided to go anywhere. I was lucky, it was a beautiful sunset an the water in the background got me a nice color. The last sparks of sunshine added some warmth to the head. This was an inner thanksgiving to me.
Soon I will share some more photos of my trip – I need some days of sorting and more importantly deleting a bunch of crappy images. I think approx. one week until you can expect something new.
So dig in later!
m*
