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Adam Savage's Tintype Portrait
Gary Detonnancourt
Meet photographer Michael Shindler, who creates one-of-a-kind tintype photographs using a 19th century wet plate collodion process. At our recent live show, Michael transformed an entire theater into a dark room to photograph and develop a large-format portrait of Adam Savage. The process is beautiful and mesmerizing!
It's Finally Safe to Upgrade to Lightroom 2015 6.3
Gary Detonnancourt
In a recent Lightroom update, Adobe decided to make major changes to the import process, in order to appeal to a more consumer level user. However, the current Lightroom users were outraged with the performance problems, the removal of important features, and the crashing of Apple computers. Luckily Adobe listened to their customers and created an update called 1015.3 or 6.3 which returned the import process back to normal. It's now safe to update your Lightroom again. This update seems to be stable, but only time will tell since it just came out. Check out the list below to see what else is in this update.
New Camera Support
Lightroom will now import files from the following new cameras: Canon EOS M10, Canon PowerShot G5 X, Canon PowerShot G9 X, Fujifilm X-T1 IR, Leica SL (Typ 601), Sony RX1R II (DSC-RX1RM2). Click here for a list of all cameras supported in Lightroom 6 (and other Lightroom versions. The title says Camera Raw, but the righthand column shows Lightroom support.)
New Tethering Support
Lightroom will now allow you to shoot tethered with the following additional cameras: Canon EOS 5DS, Canon EOS 5DS R, Canon EOS T6i / 750D, Canon EOS T6s / 760D. With your camera connected to your computer via USB, you can automatically import photos into Lightroom as you shoot. Click here for a list of all cameras supported for tethered capture.
Bug Fixes
Here is a list of fixed bugs, from Adobe:
Fixed several instability, functionality and performance issues introduced in Lightroom CC 2015.2.x/6.2.x.
Fixed several bugs related to Panorama Merge.
Fixed bugs that:
- caused edits made and saved in Photoshop or 3rd party plug-ins to not appear in the Develop module.
- caused user default for Chromatic Aberration Correction to not be honored after new Import option was removed.
- prevented rotated photos from showing as rotated when in Full Screen view.
- caused a performance slowdown when creating Standard sized previews on high resolution monitors.
- caused image previews to be incorrectly displayed as completely black after import if “Auto Tone” is on in preferences.
- caused crash when using the Radial or Graduated Filter.
- caused Palette, a 3rd party hardware device, to stop working with Lightroom.
- caused the Map module to appear pixelated and photos to be dropped in the wrong place when using hi-dpi monitors on Windows.
- prevented you from exiting Full Screen view while using the Spot Healing Tool.
- caused the Flickr Publish Service to improperly publish multi-word keywords.
New Lens Profiles
MountName
AppleiPhone 6s back camera 4.15mm f/2.2
AppleiPhone 6s front camera 2.65mm f/2.2
AppleiPhone 6s Plus back camera 4.15mm f/2.2
AppleiPhone 6s Plus front camera 2.65mm f/2.2
Canon EFCanon EF 35mm f/1.4L II USM
Canon EFCanon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM
Canon EFCanon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM +1.4x
Canon EFCanon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM +2.0x
Canon EFCanon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS II USM
Canon EFCanon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS II USM +1.4x
Canon EFCanon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS II USM +2.0x
Canon EFCanon EF 400mm f/4 DO IS II USM +1.4x
Canon EFCanon EF 400mm f/4 DO IS II USM +2.0x
Canon EFCanon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM
Canon EFCanon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM +1.4x
Canon EFCanon EF 400mm f/5.6L USM +2.0x
Canon EFCanon EF 500mm f/4L IS II USM
Canon EFCanon EF 500mm f/4L IS II USM +1.4x
Canon EFCanon EF 500mm f/4L IS II USM +2.0x
Canon EFCanon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro Photo
Canon EFSIGMA 20mm F1.4 DG HSM A015
Canon EFZeiss Milvus 1.4/50 ZE
Canon EFZeiss Milvus 1.4/85 ZE
Canon EFZeiss Milvus 2/35 ZE
Canon EFZeiss Milvus 2/50M ZE
Canon EFZeiss Milvus 2/100M ZE
Canon EFZeiss Milvus 2.8/21 ZE
Canon EFZeiss Otus 1.4/28 ZE
Canon EF-MCanon EF-M 15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM
DJIZENMUSE X3 HG310 (RAW + JPEG)
DXODxO ONE
Leica MVoigtlander VM 35mm f/1.7 Ultron
Nikon FNikon AF NIKKOR 24-85mm f/2.8-4D IF
Nikon FSIGMA 20mm F1.4 DG HSM A015
Nikon FZeiss Milvus 1.4/50 ZF.2
Nikon FZeiss Milvus 1.4/85 ZF.2
Nikon FZeiss Milvus 2/35 ZF.2
Nikon FZeiss Milvus 2/50M ZF.2
Nikon FZeiss Milvus 2/100M ZF.2
Nikon FZeiss Milvus 2.8/21 ZF.2
Nikon FZeiss Otus 1.4/28 ZF.2
PENTAXAsahi PENTAX Super-Takumar 28mm f/3.5 M42
PENTAXAsahi PENTAX Super-Takumar 50mm f/1.4 M42
PENTAXSIGMA 18-300mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM C014
SONY ASIGMA 18-300mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM C014
SONYSony DSC-RX1RM2
SONY FEZeiss Loxia 2.8/21
SIGMASIGMA 20mm F1.4 DG HSM A015
Make Creative Compostions with this DIY Tilt Shift Lens
Gary Detonnancourt
On this new web-serie we will focus only on the weird lenses , the old, the crazy ones that you can mount on a mirrorless camera.
Paris-based photographer, Mathieu Stern is back again with another interesting lens experiment.
This time, he created “bokeh madness” by attaching a Russian Jupiter 9 85mm f/2 lens onto his Sony a7II using a M42-to-E tilt adapter.
The Jupiter lens can be purchased for about $100 to $150 on eBay, and has gotten glowing reviews for its image quality and affordability. The tilt lens adapter costs about $30 on eBay.
This is the second video in Stern’s ongoing Weird Lens Challenge series of videos.
Geoff Tompkinson invented this really cool hyperzooming time lapse effect.
Gary Detonnancourt
Geoff Tompkinson invented this really cool hyperzooming timelapse effect.
HYPERZOOM COMES OF AGE. The beautiful historic town of Hallstatt is a Unesco World Heritage site in Upper Austria. It is visited by many thousands of tourists each year but perhaps none of them get to see it quite like this. As if on the back of an invisible insect we fly around the sites of this wonderful town in one continuous journey passing through buildings to emerge in different parts of the town, finally ending up on the new viewpoint from Rudolfsturm perched high above the ancient town square. Those of you who know Hallstatt, as well as anyone who watches the video carefully, will appreciate that I have applied a little artistic licence to the geometry of the town in order to seamlessly link the locations. The footage was shot over a two day period but the post production, of course, took considerably longer. SEE MORE HYPERZOOM EXAMPLES http://www.geofftompkinson.com Sound Design: Slava Pogorelsky Website: http://www.slavapogorelsky.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/slavapogorelsky
New Software from Topaz: Texture Effects
Gary Detonnancourt
Topaz Texture Effects
Who says it takes time to create an awe-inspiring image? With the ability to quickly achieve a variety of textured, toned, and lighting effects, the NEW Topaz Texture Effects allows you to do in minutes what could take hours in other editing software. Get More Information Here: http://www.topazlabs.com/textureeffects
Topaz Texture Effects will be on sale through November 20th. It will retail for $69.99, however, you can purchase it for only $49.99 ($20 off) until November 20th by using this coupon code: TEXTUREFX.
LIVE WEBINAR: 5 SIMPLE STEPS TO IMPROVING YOUR PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION IN THE NEXT 30 DAYS!
Gary Detonnancourt
LIVE WEBINAR: 5 SIMPLE STEPS TO IMPROVING YOUR PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION IN THE NEXT 30 DAYS!
Monday, Nov. 9 at 7 pm.
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Update Your Camera for Daylight Savings Time
Gary Detonnancourt
Update Your Camera for Daylight Savings Time