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Culling for Speed: How to Use Photo Mechanic to Meet Wedding (and other) Deadlines

June 6, 2017 By Carrie Swails

There was a time as a business owner where I was inefficient. I was sending contracts with physical paper in the mail, waiting for checks, sending DVDs, and taking my sweet time with editing. Editing was especially time-consuming. I was editing on a MacBook Air that had a minimal four gigs of memory. You’d think I was editing with Picasa, but I was actually running Photoshop on that little thing. It took forever for images to save and it added hundreds of hours onto a task that should have been as efficient and straightforward as possible. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Learn, Software Tagged With: photo mechanic, wedding photography, workflow

 

Sony Releases New Workflow Guides for Working with RAW and XAVC 4K Footage

October 29, 2013 By Eric Reagan

Sony Workflow Guide

Sony has released version 2 of its RAW, XAVC, and HDCAM SR File workflow guide for Sony CineAlta cameras. The workflow guide addresses every stage of production, including on-stage look management, footage transfer and backup, dailies, edit and color grading. The workflow guide looks at just about every popular third-party solution and doesn’t just stick with Sony’s own. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Sony, Video Production Tagged With: 4k, CineAlta, cinema camera, editing, post production, raw, Sony, workflow

Adobe Lightroom or Apple Aperture?

October 3, 2011 By Eric Reagan

Adobe Lightroom vs. Aperture Lightroom

If you are regular reader here, you may have picked up on the fact that I use Adobe Lightroom almost exclusively as an editor for RAW images.  I’m curious as to how Photography Bay’s readers break down between the two big third-party RAW editing apps – Adobe Lightroom and Apple Aperture.

Hit the poll below and let us know which you use. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Poll Tagged With: adobe, aperture, apple, editing, lightroom, Poll, raw, Software, workflow

Gale Tattersall on CreativeLIVE Talking HDSLR Workflow

July 8, 2011 By Eric Reagan

Heads up to everyone who wants to get more into HDSLR video capture – Gale Tattersall is on CreativeLIVE this weekend with a full 3-days of HDSLR instruction. If you aren’t familiar with the name, Tattersall is the Director of Photography for House.  He shot the House season finale last year with the 5D Mark II.

It’s free while running live and will be available for download afterwards for a fee.  Details about the program are here on CreativeLIVE.  The free live stream is here on CreativeLIVE.

Filed Under: hdslr Tagged With: canon 5d mark ii, filmmaking, Gale Tattersall, hddslr, hdslr, production, video, workflow

Photo Mechanic 4.6.5 Released

July 10, 2010 By Eric Reagan

Camera Bits has released an updated version of Photo Mechanic.  Version 4.6.5 adds a number of new features to the powerful workflow software, including live ingest, embed GPS coordinates in photos, new upload templates for secure FTP, Amazon S3, Flickr, SmugMug, Zenfolio and more.

You can download or learn more about Photo Mechanic 4.6.5 on Camera Bits website.

Filed Under: Software Tagged With: camera bits, digital cameras, photo mechanic, photography, Software, workflow

Free Color Managed Workflow Webinar on 3/17/10

March 10, 2010 By Eric Reagan

Color Management Webinar

Manfrotto and Datacolor are putting on a free online webinar that will offer tips on controlling color accuracy and using Datacolors Spyder3 color management products.  The free webinar will take place on Wednesday, March 17th from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EDT.

You can register for the webinar at the following link:

http://spyder.datacolor.com/manfrotto_webinar.php

They’ll also be giving away some free prizes to live listeners.  Your registration counts as your entry.

More details below. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Learn Tagged With: color management, Datacolor, manfrotto, Spyder Cubes, Spyder3, webinar, workflow

Apple Aperture 3

February 9, 2010 By Eric Reagan

Apple Aperture 3

Apple has announced Aperture 3, which offers a number of improvements over Aperture 2, including Faces, Places and Brushes.  Obviously, the big news for photographers is the ability to make local adjustments with the Brushes tool.  Additionally, Aperture 3 allows you to import HD video from your DSLRs and even edit it make your own movie without ever leaving Aperture.  It also includes the ability to easily export video files to Apple’s Final cut software.

Aperture 3 is available for $200 or as an upgrade for Aperture 2 users for $100.

More details at Apple.com and in the press release below. [Read more…]

Filed Under: apple Tagged With: aperture 3, apple, dslr, photo editing, photography, post-processing, raw, Software, workflow

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