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Cory Photography with Tom and Pat Cory |
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Newsletter January 2006 Continued |
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PhotoDisc Target Image
For those of you who have been working on digital images on your computer and are not yet ready to plunge headlong into color management, you may find the PhotoDisc target image on Tim Grey's website of interest. You can download this image (it's free) which contains enough memory colors (objects that you know the correct color of through your normal experience) that it can be used reasonably well to confirm color accuracy of your monitor. See www.timgrey.com/ccdownloads.htm.
Thumbnails of Raw Files in Elements This is another tip that was in Tim Grey's email newsletter recently. When you open a folder directly in Elements, only TIFF and JPEG files provide a thumbnail because the Elements program actually is using the Windows viewer software. To get the thumbnail of a RAW image to display, you can download the Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer for Windows XP from the Microsoft Pro Photo website ( www.microsoft.com/prophoto/) on the Downloads page. The direct link is here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/raw.mspx This pro photographer tool enables you to view thumbnails and previews of your Canon and Nikon RAW images (most models). The dialog box is a Windows control, and will use the Windows associations to determine how thumbnails are viewed.
Model Releases for Photo Exhibits The question of model releases comes up all the time. We've read many conflicting viewpoints about this subject. We found this link to be interesting. As an aside, on the very same day that we received this, I attended a presentation by the editor of a local magazine who took exactly the opposite point of view—they will accept images only with a model release. We are not suggesting that either position is legally correct, but it's at least food for thought.
Winter Photography Thoughts Winter Photography can be very rewarding. Dress warmly, protect your equipment from the elements and have fun. Here are some ideas that we hope you will find useful. Days are shorter so sunrise and sunset times are not so early or so late. In addition, the lower angle of the sun tends to lengthen the shadows, giving a stronger illusion of depth to fencelines and woodlands. These shadows have a tendency to have a very blue cast to them so you may want to take care with filters or white balance. Another subject that can give the illusion of depth is an unfrozen stream surrounded by snow. Some other great subjects are trees in the landscape, ice patterns, and ice on twigs and berries which can give a jewel like appearance. Waterfalls can be spectacular in winter when winter rains or melting snow increase their volume or ice forms around the falls. Snow tends to soften, ice tends to harden your subject. To emphasize the falling snow use a moderate telephoto lens to compress the flakes and a shutter speed of 1/15 to 1/30 of a second. Take care with you exposures. To avoid under exposing your snowy subject you may need to over expose by a stop or two depending on your camera and the situation. If you are shooting digital, you may want to shoot your images in RAW format to give yourself more control with your exposures. Take care that you don't blow out the highlights since if you don't capture the detail, you won't be able to bring it back later.
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Florida, 2006 |