Looking for professional women that own and ride motorcycles. Must be your bike, not friends or hubby, bikes can be any make or model. Free photo shoot and 16×20 print. Images will be used for my portfolio and a book that I am producing. The book will feature lady bikers from all over the country. Images are not the typical “biker babe” stuff, we are trying to produce classy, amazing images featuring the lady and her machine. If interested, contact us via email.
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I-Opener from Imagefire is one of the most amazing workflow tools available for photographers. We use it for several things, batch sizing images, running our “One Minute Pretouch Actions”, but most importantly, making ALL of our finished images in a single batch. In the time it takes for you to open a couple of photoshop files and “save as jpg”, I-Opener will have processed an entire order (typically around 20 images or so). Think that’s cool – that isn’t even scratching the surface! We have I-Opener set up to……. Open each finished photoshop file in a directory, create a new folder named printer images, flatten to a jpg, rename and save in that folder at full size – create a new folder named lab images, flatten to a jpg, change the colorspace from adobe to sRGB, rename and save in that folder at full size – create a new folder named facebook images, flatten to a jpg, rename, change the colorspace from adobe to sRGB, put my logo on the image and save in that folder at “longest side 500px” – create a new folder named animoto images, flatten to a jpg, change the colorspace from adobe to sRGB, rename and save in that folder at the optimum size for animoto – create a new folder named wallets, add my logo and a text area for the seniors name, rename and save in that folder as a layered psd file, 2-1/2×3-1/2 – all in about 2 minutes for 20 -24 images. All that we need to do from there to finish the order is to open any of the wallets that need to be personalized and add the seniors name in the text area, another minute or two. It isn’t hard to imagine the time savings – 24 images x 5 minutes of time saved x 200 clients – that is a WHOPPING 400 HOURS OF TIME SAVED!!!!!!!! Mulitlpy that by a rate of $16/hour = $6400 saved per year, 5 years that is a new car! So… A program that can do all of that must be expensive right ?? How about $59 last time I checked!!! What is the down side?? It takes a little bit to set up, but we have presets availble that will make the task a lot easier. no comments  Ken Kneringers Photoshop Actions For those of you that aren’t familiar with my action set, it is designed to give you great color and contrast in your images, speed up your workflow, and help you produce better images faster. It isn’t a bunch of color shifting stuff or black and white conversions, just great workflow and amazing color. It is the same photoshop actions that we use every day in our workflow. We have other educational and workflow products available including retouch videos, pretouch actions, presets for I-Opener, Capture one videos, and more to come for 2012. If you want to order the products, textures, photoshop actions, or if you purchased the actions from me previously and just want an update, call 317-882-9500, give us your info, we will get them out to you ASAP! no comments I have to start with the reasons I purchased the camera. First was the flash sync speed of 1/800th. We use our elinchrom flash a lot outdoors and the added sync speed comes in handy. Second and more importantly is image quality. We have always put image quality first, it is how we built our business. The image quality of the Hasselblad H3D-II is unreal. Skin tones are amazing (although they do have that “peachy Kodak sensor” look), image detail is sick, and the finished images have a certain “feel” that is not obtainable with 35mm equipment. Don’t get me wrong – we LOVE our Nikon D3/D3x, we use them for 80% of all that we do, but when detail is king - the Hassleblad wins hands down. What I like – the camera has a nice feel to it, is very intuitive, and is a joy to shoot. Image quality is amazing. The lenses for the camera are also incredible, the 100mm f2.2 is razor sharp when it needs to be for fashion/commercial, and can be softened down by opening up to produce beautiful portraits. What I don’t like - the LCD viewing screen is a HUGE disappointment. The color on the screen is truly hideous, you can’t judge anything from it including exposure. If it weren’t for the menu system, the camera would be better off without the screen, it just ticks you off that a camera this expensive has a screen that can’t live up to an $800 Nikon. The included Phocus software is also a huge disappointment. Things that are extremely fast and easy in Capture One, are slow and painful in Phocus. The software reminds me of what comes as standard with most cameras, image quality is there, but the workflow is too slow for everyday use. Products like C1 and Lightroom are designed for workflow, not just to process raw files. I am quite sure that after working with it, I will become faster with it, but it will not measure up to C1. The batteries are just simply too small for the camera. Keep a good supply of these puppies on hand if you are shooting all day. The camera is set up to save as much power as possible – to the point of being totally annoying. I had to adjust the power saving features to make the camera more useable, but pay the price in battery life. If you are going to shoot all day with this, make sure you have 4 or 5 batteries laying around. Probably not out of line for a big power hungy machine, guess I am spoiled by my Nikon gear where one battery will let me shoot for 3 days. I will put an image or two up for download in the next few days. no comments June 13th-16th – Ken Kneringer will be teaching a three day workshop at the Winona School Of Photography in Nashville Indiana. The Winona School was “the school” for professional photographers in the 80′s and has been totally revamped for today’s photographers. Some of the best know photographers in the country will be teaching photoshop, seniors, lighting, weddings, and marketing. The Winona School is one of the best values in photographic training. There is still time to sign up!! Hope to see you there!! View full post » no comments |
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