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Quality Range Time
Posted by Ian
on January 21, 2012
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A group of us went to the Center Mass Shooting Range in Vacaville today, breaking in some new guns, shooting some older ones, and coaching a “relatively new” shooter that joined us.
Kitten & Child Portrait
Posted by Ian
on January 16, 2012
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Portrait Professional
Posted by Ian
on January 10, 2012
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I had a chance to sit down tonight and play with Portrait Professional by Anthropics Technology. It does quite an amazing job in such a short amount of time. Yes you can do the same tricks with PhotoShop but at what cost? Doing in PhotoShop what you can accomplish with Portrait Professional takes much longer and is waaaaaay more tedious. Did I mention time consuming?
I did the trial, and that made me like it enough to buy it. I purchased the Pro Version for $59 bucks (normally $129), which seems like a deal since they offer you a free upgrade to the next full version when it’s released. Important note: The cheaper $39 version does NOT handle RAW images (among other things), so take that into consideration before buying.
I went back through some of my portraits and decided to pick on the Emily & Libby. I darkened hair, and moved eyes/nose just a tad. Everything else the software did automatically. Granted, at first glance, it looks unnatural if you’ve seen the “before” – if you saw the “after” without knowing the person, you probably wouldn’t think otherwise.
Of course, you can really go to the extreme and make someone look like the poster child for plastic surgery gone horribly wrong (I’ll save that for a separate posting down the road!)
It comes in both PC and Mac versions and you can download both. Haven’t tried the activation key on both installations yet.
And because I told Jeni that I would…these were very subtle changes.
Nikon Announced D4
Posted by Ian
on January 10, 2012
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If you haven’t already heard the news, Nikon has announced their new flagship successor, the Nikon D4. This amazing little photographic wonder sports a newly designed FX (full frame) CMOS sensor, 16.2 MP, EXPEED 3 processing engine, shooting up to 11 frame per second, illuminated buttons and more. The most favorite feature I was happy to read about – low noise performance at ISO speeds up to 12,800, extendable to 204,800 at 4 EV. Incredible. Has the same selectable 51 focus points (not really needed unless you’re using 3D tracking, which I rarely do – I normally shoot with 11 or 21 points)
Get yours at Adorama - they’re taking pre-orders, offer free-shipping, and all the specs are listed on their site. The price is $5,995.95, which means the price of the D3S is “a little cheaper” at $5,199.95 and has the same 12,800 ISO (albeit on the older, yet very adequate sensor)
Who Says They Can’t Get Along?
Posted by Ian
on January 9, 2012
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