Unfortunately, I do not see enough my granny. So, when I have seen her during the last end of year’s celebrations, I made a quick portrait.
I have used again this fantastic portrait lens: the 85mm.
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A quick portrait made during an afternoon at home with friends. This is a portrait of Jean-Marc. Thanks to Arnaud to have been such a good assistant.
technically, I have used a 85mm opened at 1.4 (that explains the shallow depth of field). Regarding the lighting, I have used a Lastolite Ezybox softbox in front of Jean-Marc, above is head, turned at 45° (turned to his face).
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Recently, a lot of people have complained in internet forum about the last version of Lightroom (3.4.1 when I am writing this article) not working anymore in tethered mode with OS X Lion.
The tethered mode is really useful when you are doing a portrait photos session. It allows you (by connecting your camera to your computer using an USB cable) to directly transfer the photo from your camera to Lightroom. Then, you can directly see on your “big” computer screen (compared to the back LCD of your camera) the photo you have just taken. You can also apply modifications on your picture in Lightroom (like converting the picture in black and white, changing a curve or changing the white balance) and apply the same modification to all the pictures you will take after that.
A lot of words to only say that tethered mode is essential to a lot of photographers.
Reading all these alarming messages on internet forums about the tethered mode being broken, I had to test it myself. I had a portrait photos session planned so I had to be sure to be able to use the tethered mode.
Before using OS X Lion, everything was working perfectly. You had to start a tethered session, connect your camera to your computer with an USB cable then start your camera. Your camera was recognized and you were ready for a long photos session.
Apparently, Apple has changed the way they are handling USB connections in OS X Lion. They are shutting down the USB connection after a while when there is no activity on the USB port: Lightroom is not recognizing your camera anymore. I have also notices that you have to execute a lit of steps in a specific order.
Here is what you have to do:
If you are not taking photos for a long time, your camera could stop being recognized by Lightroom. Here is what you have to do:
It is frustrating to have to do all these steps, but apparently Adobe is working on a bug fix for the next Lightroom release.
During my last photos session, this happened only once during a two hours photos session. So, it was not a big pain.
I hope that this article will help you to use your camera (at least your Nikon D700) with Lightroom in tethered mode again. Tell me if you had any success!
Apple has announced yesterday the iPad 2 release (the 2nd of March 2011).
What is it all about?
Not bad! And at the same price!
Wait a little bit before running buying one. If you would like to use an iPad 2 as a photographer, what do you want to do with it?
You mainly want to show your portfolio (and use the other apps as a bonus). But the iPad 2 is not improving the only part that is interesting for us: the screen.
Just know that Apple is clearing its iPad 1 stock (at least in France) with a great discount. You can buy an iPad 1 for 389€ (16GB Wifi, enough for a photographer) while the iPad 2 (same configuration) will be sold 499€.
So, if you are a photographer and you would like an iPad, buy an iPad… 1!
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Google has just launched the Google Art Project.
You will discover several paintings from a lot of museums in the world. You can virtually visit (as in Google Street) the museums and see high res photos of the paintings. Historical notes are available for all these paintings.
Walk through these museums and get inspired by the lighting techniques of these paintings. The Rambrandt portrait lighting style is well known by photographers. Rediscover the original lighting technique in this small selection of Rambrandt’s portraits..
Stroll, get inspired then create your own style!
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