Photographing Bears- Summer 2008
Editor’s note: A couple of readers have commented that we seem to be stressing Nikon camera gear in our articles, and as an editor I have to tell you that is the luck of the draw in terms of some of our writers preferences; but in the idea of equal time, here we present a Canon camera shooter’s images and viewpoint. Enjoy. Dr. Michael N. Roach We are in Katmai National Park, a road-less area. Hallo Bay is one of a number of bays on the Alaskan Peninsula, a special protected... Read more »
Recession Proofing Your Studio- Part 1
Whether you believe we are in a recession or you are simply seeing a slow down in your business, are you going to kick back and hope the phone starts ringing or wait for our government to help you out? The governments plan of course is to stimulate the economy by pouring money into it by issuing tax rebates to all US taxpayers, most of which have been delivered by now. Whether you agree with this philosophy or not, if you have been losing sleep wondering where your next job is coming from, you need... Read more »
The Nikon D3
I was always an F kind of guy. My first Nikon pro camera was the original F - a 1971 black body FTN. It supplemented my FM2 and I had it until just a couple of years ago when I sold it to a close friend, who bought it with the understanding that I might occasionally need to fondle it… call it conjugal visits. A few years later I found a really nice F2 that I still have… I skipped the F3 and F4 entirely – I thought they were kind of growing-pain cameras… the F5 was the result... Read more »
2 Days to A Better Website.
When I first got out of school it was still common to run around with your portfolio containing tear sheets and photographs. It was always a pain to collects these, the few copies in hand were precious and almost irreplaceable. I cannot count the times I lost my portfolio. More often than not, I wouldn’t bother to replace the evidence of the work. Oh, the drama. I would end up losing gigs because I didn’t have the tearsheet for this or that. 20 people lined up for a gig, the last thing... Read more »
EXPLORING DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND GROUP THERAPY, TOGETHER
When I studied traditional photography over twenty years ago I did not see how much the art would shift for me in the way I executed it and what it meant for me. I believed like many of us that the silver halide was a thing of exacting beauty that could never be replaced. Under the instruction of my mentor we discussed at length the f64 club, the preciousness of metal development canisters and reels and how to load them correctly in the dark so as not to burn the edges of the film, keeping... Read more »
The Computer, The Painter, The Image and His Brushes
When Dr. Michael Roach asked me if I might consider writing an article for DigitalAppleJuice, I was taken aback. I am a painter, and, one could say, a primitive, when it comes to the making of digital images. At least I used to be. Over the past five years, for a number of very practical reasons, I have become more adept at manipulating images on my Mac, from simply adjusting and organizing photos of my paintings and drawings to using Photoshop to create textile designs using my own images. I’ve... Read more »
Find Your Passion…
Being artists, we tend to be more passionate about things than those using the other side of their brains. Of course I am not saying you can’t be passionate about numbers, but I have a feeling my accountant gets his kicks away from his nine to five. We are blessed in that Art can truly bring out the passionate side in a person who can see it for what it is. What is passion exactly? Well Webster’s Online Dictionary says this… “Passion: Strong feeling or emotion; Intense... Read more »
Exposure and Lighting for Digital Photographers Only
I recently encountered a relatively new book by Michael Meadhra and Charlotte K. Lowrie entitled Exposure and Lighting for Digital Photographers Only published by Wiley Press in 2007. Having taught photography for more than 40 years, I obviously have taught through the transition from silver-based photography to the digital era. As digital became the dominant medium, students changed radically in the backgrounds that they brought to the classroom. In the beginning of the transition, most... Read more »
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Still Photographers & the Film Industry
Still Photographers in the Film Industry shoot stills for the publicity of a movie and to document the film, and everything connected with the production of a film. Then the finished material will be usually be turned over to the studio which will... more
LAYERS: The Complete Guide To Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature
When I pick up a book to read it I have an almost overwhelming desire to know something about the person writing the book before I even flip the pages of that book. I want a connection between that person and myself in order to justify committing myself to their momentary care. I look first at book forwards or introductions or at least the author’s brief inside the front cover. This is true whether the book is a work of fiction or a technical manual. Without this beginning... Read more »
Seven Key Techniques For Taking Your Images From Flat To Fantastic
I included the sub-title with the title because I think it makes the subject clearer. I think that describes why Scott Kelby’s book is not just another Photoshop book even if you don’t know who Scott Kelby actually is. If you don’t know, then I suggest you crank up GOOGLE and pick a couple of dozen of the 999,000 entries it says it pinged up for your perusal when you punch in his name. I’ll give you the summation—he knows Photoshop. He knows it very well! I secretly... Read more »
Exposure and Lighting for Digital Photographers Only
I recently encountered a relatively new book by Michael Meadhra and Charlotte K. Lowrie entitled Exposure and Lighting for Digital Photographers Only published by Wiley Press in 2007. Having taught photography for more than 40 years, I obviously have taught through the transition from silver-based photography to the digital era. As digital became the dominant medium, students changed radically in the backgrounds that they brought to the classroom. In the beginning of the transition, most... Read more »
Managing Your Photographic Workflow with Photoshop Lightroom
Rocky Nook was founded in 2006 in Santa Barbara, California, and is closely associated with dpunkt.verlag in Germany. Rocky Nook is associated with, and releases books, through O’Reilly Media Company, hence the distribution through the O’Reilly address. Rocky Nook specializes in books on digital photography, imaging, and workflow. Their stated goal is "to support creativity, and improve the quality and efficiency of photographic work". The writers chosen by Rocky Nook are... Read more »
The HDRI Handbook: High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers and CG Artists by Christian Bloch
Film has never been able to capture the dynamic range of reality, and trying to achieve that result has been the goal of photographers and chemists, and then later lens and film designers, since the early beginnings of the photographic process. But digital imaging has brought us to the possibility of producing images that contain a higher dynamic range than is possible with any type of film. With digital imaging and the proper techniques it is now possible to produce a dynamic range in an... Read more »
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