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X-Rite’s Free Webinars for October

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X-Rite is offer three free webinars in October.

On Tuesday, October 2 at 10AM and 1PM EDT, X-Rite will show Professional Monitor Calibration for Still & Video. You can register for this free webinar via the links below.

On Thursday, October 4 at 11AM and 3PM EDT, X-Rite will offer Simply Amazing Color, Take control of your monitor, printer and camera!.  You can register for this one with the following links:

On Thursday, October 18 at 11AM and 1PM EDT, X-Rite will show Enhancements for Creating Beautiful Portraits with Photoshop CS6.  You can register for this free webinar at the following links:

Speedlight Gels and Softbox Grids with Joe McNally

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Here’s a great video from Joe McNally and Adorama TV.  Joe’s working a Nikon D800 with the built-in flash as the commander flash, a Lastolite Ezybox softbox with grid and a red-gelled speedlight for a background light.

If you haven’t checked out Joe’s book, The Hot Shoe Diaries, there’s lots more of great speedlight info like this in there.

[via FStoppers]

Datacolor Offering Free Webinars on Color Management

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Datacolor Free Webinars

Datacolor, maker of the Spyder calibration devices, is putting on several webinars over the next few months on color management.  These webinars are begin September 12, 2012 and are free for anyone to join.

Topics and specific dates of upcoming webinars are as follows:

  • September 12, 2012 3:00 – 4:15 p.m. EDT: Color Management for Fine Art Reproduction
  • September 19, 2012 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. & 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. EDT: Introduction to Color Management Using Spyder Technology
  • October 16, 2012 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. EDT: Calibration for All of Your  Display Devices, Including iPhones, iPads, and More
  • November 14, 2012 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. EST: Holiday Stocking Stuffers from Datacolor
  • December 12, 2012 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. EST: Getting the Most Out of Your Holiday Photos

Datacolor will also be giving away a free Spyder color management product that coincides with the particular webinar topic.  You can register for these free webinars here on Datacolor’s website.

Photography Rules of Composition with Scott Kelby

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In this video from the Google+ Photographers’ Conference, Scott Kelby shakes up some of the traditional instruction of teaching photographic composition.  It’s a rather long video; however, Scott Kelby is a great teacher and this session is worth a listen.  I hit play and planned on catching a few minutes of it, but Scott sucked me in and I stuck around for the duration.

[via Fstoppers]

Dave Hill Slow Motion BTS

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Check out the above behind-the-scenes video of a recent Dave Hill commercial shoot for the Fiat Abarth.  Motion elements for the shoot were captured with the super slo-mo Phantom Flex and Phantom Gold cameras, while the stills were shot with the Canon 5D Mark II and Hasselblad H3D-50.

The DP behind the motion side of the shoot was Brandon Lippard, who also shot one of Doritos Crash the Superbowl winning commercials back it 2010.  Remember this one? [Read more…]