Sep 28
For as long as Adobe Photoshop has existed, and visual artists have had the skill to sculpt images to their will, there has been a moral dilemma of changing the public’s view of what is real and what is altered. France’s parliament is now kicking around the idea that any advertisement, press photo, art photograph, or piece of product packaging containing a digitally manipulated picture of a person would have to carry a disclaimer reading, “Photograph retouched to modify the physical appearance of a person.” Failure to include the disclaimer would result in a $50,000-plus fine or up to half the cost of the ad campaign, potentially a huge threat.
More on this in the following Yahoo! Tech article.
Also, see this 2 part video by Diet.com about the “Photoshop Effect”
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP31r70_QNM
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovpd5O6M8tQ
Tags: Airbrushing, France, French Photoshop Law, Photoshop Effect, Photoshop Warning Label
Jul 23
FotoTV has been invited to visit the Fotolia Workshop “SPEND A DAY WITH YURI ARCURS. LEARN TO SHOOT WHAT SELLS” on the 6th of December 2008 in Berlin (Germany). The result is an amazing movie about Yuri Arcurs the most successful Microstock photographer worldwide. The clip contains very interesting statements in regards to Microstock photography and Yuris know-how, his way of working with models and workshop participants and provides impressions of the entire Fotolia workshop.
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8XmMmSceK4
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkN5icUfxW0
Tags: Stock Photography Workshop
Jul 23
Yuri Arcurs from Crestock has produced some wonderful videos that show behind the scenes of his studio at Aarhus in Denmark. These videos show a lot of great insight to how he’s using his studio and his photography work flow, specifically in relation to his stock photography. Thanks to Yuri for sharing with the world!
The videos include:
Tags: Photography Tutorials, stock photography, Studio Photography
Jul 01
David Appleyard of AppStorm has rounded up his favorite 50 Mac applications for digital photographers. The list includes a range from free open source applications, up through some fairly expensive industry standard apps. If you are looking to explore more post production with your images, this is a great place to start exploring available applications.
Tags: Applications, digital photography, Free, HDR, NEF, open source, Programs, RAW, roundup
Jun 08
Sporting one of Nikon’s famous NIKKOR lenses (18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR AF-S DX) and a 12.3 megapixel sensor, the Nikon D5000 steps beyond the realm of your average DSLR camera. It has everything you would hope for from a Nikon - nearly two dozen auto-exposure modes, startlingly accurate auto-focus, tracking, and light metering, the ability to shoot four frames per second, and in-camera image editing - but it holds a new surprise too - the capacity to shoot 720p HD movies. Now, this isn’t something new to the DSLR world, Canon released a comparable camera right after the Nikon D90 was released. This is Nikon’s hard-hitting response, and at around 1000 bucks, it’s a steal too.
Written by Pat Ortali, Multimedia Consultant III at Washington College’s Multimedia Production Center
Nov 14
Interested in experimenting with long exposure photography and painting with light? This tutorial shows some tips and examples of what you can do with your DSLR, a tripod, and a few light sources.
Tags: light art, long exposures, painting with light, Photography
Nov 06
Not ready for criminal behavior, but still really into street art. Light writing, shown in this how-to video, is an urban art that doesn’t damage public (or private) property, so it’s totally legal. Learn how to do a new form of art called light writing or light graffiti by watching this instructional video. Using a camera set to a low shutter speed you can write graffiti in the air using streaks of light.
Tags: abstract art, dark, fine art, graffiti, light painting, light writing, lightwriting, long exposure, night, Photography
Oct 29
Shortly after Nikon released their D90, a DX format 12MP Digital SLR capable of shoot 720p video, Canon fires back with the impressive 5DMKII. I’m not going to go into why this is a great still photo camera, or list all of the details around this 1080p video capture beast. But I will mention that for $2700 and the cost of some lenses, you’ll be able to shoot beautiful photos AND footage you’d expect from a video camera priced 10-30x as much.
Check out this short film, created by Vincent Laforet, who was supplied with a pre-release version of the camera body for a few days. You’ll see why everyone is drooling over it.
Then take a look at an interview with Vincent to see why he, a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist, is excited about the camera.
Tags: 1080p, 5D Mark II, Canon, DSLR, Video Photo
Aug 24
The first ever Filmmaking and Photography Boot Camp and Washington College took place Aug 17-20, 2008, and was a great success. 10 incoming first year students participated in the pre-orientation session, conceived and led by Brian Palmer, Manager of the Multimedia Production Center.
For highlights of the boot camp, take a look at the final documentary video they produced and premiered on the forth and final night in the Prince Theatre, Chestertown, MD.