The Daily Edit – Friday 5.18.12
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Adobe SpeedGrade Tutorial
One of the big announcements that caught my interest at NAB was Adobe CS6′s inclusion of the high-end color grading software SpeedGrade within the suite. This is a similar move to what Final Cut Studio did several years ago when they included "Color" within their suite for free – and I have always been...
18 May 2012, Friday
Nikon D4 with 50/1.4G.
NEW: Nikon D4 Review.
Verdict: Nikon's best pro digital camera, duh.
What used to be just a page of specifications is now a full review. I've had my D4 for quite a while, but was...
Heading to the Google+ Conference for Photographers
Man, have I picked up some Frequent Flyer miles in the past few weeks. As I write this, I’m on my delayed flight back from Norfolk, Virginia after speaking the ISAP aviation photographers’ conference (had a great time. Their association is so fantastic, I actually signed-up myself while I was there, and now I am
LAST NAB 2012
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DIY Baby Merlin (Steadicam Smoothee) Shaved Base
Nick Bicanic from http://www.purposelabs.com does a better job than I did with his DIY Steadicam Smoothee (a.k.a Baby Merlin) by shaving down the entire platform to get a perfect fit for his quick release adapter [Thanks Nick]. That little bit of effort definitely makes it look much more solid mounting platform than adding a quick...
Photographs of the World’s Oldest Living Things
Here’s an interesting TED talk by photographer Rachel Sussman, who undertook an interesting photo project idea: photograph living organisms around the world that are 2,000 years old or older.
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Canon C300 HD download now available £25
I have found that our USA and European readers would prefer “You and your Canon C300″ tutorial video as a download which is now available for £25. The HD download file is 1.52 GB in size and will play on iTunes or your iPad. If you are int...
Karl Taylor Explains The 4 Main Types of Light
There isn’t just one type of light. There are 4 main types, and Karl Taylor does a great job of explaining them in this video about the various types of light.
Knowing the type of light that you’re dealing with can change the way you shoot...
Giant Portraits Printed onto Grass with the Help of Photosynthesis
Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey‘s living grass portraits are a testament to creativity. Created by exposing patches of seedling grass to the sun through custom-made negatives, these portraits are grown rather than taken. And just like the regular pictures and the subjects inside them, over time, the images on the grass will fade and disappear....
US Department of Justice Defends Photographers’ Right to Record Police
Earlier we reported on two separate cases where video evidence of police shot by random citizens wound up being crucial in the exoneration of photographers arrested while doing their job. Well, appropriately enough, the US Department of Justice just recently came out in defense of the right to record police while they are on duty....
The Camera Bag: Optrix Wide-Angle iPhone Case for Shooting HD Video of Extreme Sports
Here's another Kickstarter project that was born out of necessity. Called the Optrix Wide-Angle, it's a water-resistant, bump-, spill-, splash-, and drop-proof case with a built-in wide-angle lens for the iPhone 4, 4S and iPod Touc...
