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Control Your Flash Settings With a TV Remote Control
Controlling your strobe from a distance has always been a priority for off camera flash photographers. If TTL works for you, you can extend your TTL cable quite a bit using a simple Cat5e hack.
But what if you could do this remotely. and I mean skipping the whole walking to the flash and adjusting it bit. (Or asking your assistant to do so, assuming you have an assistant). Up until now remote controlling your strobe like this was a benefit saved for Profoto Air Remote ($325 remote only) and profoto heads, or Radio Popper Jrx owners (Strobist review here).
Now this very exciting feature is available for the oh so cheap YN460 manual flash ($69 + about $10 in remote parts) - read the howto after the jump.
VIDEO: The amazing John Cleese shares his wisdom…
The amazing John Cleese shares his wisdom on writing, creativity, getting in the zone, and interruptions. It’s great to see advice that we hear all the time reaffirmed from outside the tech industry.
Watching at St. Paul's cross installation
tnorm posted a photo:
Joyce and Ronald Roach watch the 20 foot gold cross be lifted and set on top of the new St. Paul Church under construction at 313 N. State St. in Westerville on Sunday, August 15, 2010.
St. Paul's Cross Installation
tnorm posted a photo:
Pat Kitzler takes a photo while watching with her husband Jerry Kitzler the 20 foot gold cross as it is lifted to the top of the new St. Paul Church under construction at 313 N. State St. in Westerville on Sunday, August 15, 2010.
Worker releases the new cross
tnorm posted a photo:
Corna Kokosing Construction Company Iron Worker David Lambert removes the wire from the crane after the 20 foot gold cross sits in place on the new St. Paul Church under construction at 313 N. State St. in Westerville on Sunday, August 15, 2010.
Motivational Poster designed by Nate Miller
I thought this would be funny to share. My friend Nate thought this would be funny, enjoy
Goldfinch Out my Window
tnorm posted a photo:
Woke up to find a goldfinch outside my livingroom window. I was surprised I had time to get the camera, remember to get a memory card and take a photo from about 8 or 10 feet away. Grant it I'm behind a window screen but I thought it would see the movement and the white lens of my canon camera. The screen in the window adds a bit of blur to the overall photo.
Dries01547170418869654453 demo video of the amazing new in-place-editor for Panels: http://bit.ly/cCzFzG #drupal #welcometothefuture
Behind the Scenes of a Band Shoot
I was contacted by a long time friend of mine Nick Perri (Silvertide,Perry Farrell’s Satellite Party,Shinedown) who needed a new band photo for a secret project he was putting together. The new band is called SINAI and they are killer!!!
In the first video you can hear the whole story of the photo shoot from inception to completion and everywhere in-between below. Greg and I walk you through the lighting set up and the challenges that we faced to capture these images.
The second video is a time-lapse movie comprised of 816 still images taken at 15 second intervals throughout the photo shoot. The movie is cut to a compilation of SINAI songs that have yet to be released. You can check out SINAI at www.Sinaiband.com
Click here to view the larger image
Drupal Voices 149: Amye Scavarda on Project Management for Drupal
Amye Scavarda (aka msamye) talks about some of the discussions about Project Management that were happening at DrupalCon San Francisco. She mentions a couple of presentations that she was involved with including The Care and Feeding of Project Managers and YOU SHALL NOT PASS: Managing Expectations and Boundaries of Clients.
Release Date: August 16, 2010 - 1:10am Album: Drupal Voices Length: 8:18 minutes (7.66 MB) Format: mono 44kHz 128Kbps (cbr) LullabotImporting Content Using The Feeds Module
This lesson shows how to automatically import content from RSS or Atom feeds with the help of the Feeds module. The process relies on cron to run periodically so that the feed processor can check for new content. The feed processor creates regular Drupal nodes from the items contained in the feed. You can choose to have the imported items published by default or not. Once the items have been imported as nodes you can then create custom paths to those using Pathauto and/or customize the display using the Views module.
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Robert J. SafutoPhotographer Steve McCurry Gets Last Roll of Kodachrome Ever Produced
The last roll of Kodachrome film ever created has wound up in good hands.
Famed photographer and photojournalist Steve McCurry, who captured “Afghan Girl” (at left), an image that has been called “the most recognized photograph” in the history of National Geographic magazine, was given the final strip of the iconic film.
The world’s most commercially successful film for much of the 20th century, Kodachrome gained popularity beginning in the Great Depression for its vibrant colors, sharpness and durability. Tragically, the Eastman Kodak Co. officially discontinued the iconic film last year after deciding digital photography is the wave of the future. They decided to give the final roll of 36 exposures to McCurry.
So what will he do with the precious strip? That’s the subject of a new documentary from National Geographic, which follows the veteran photojournalist as he travels the world and attempts to give Kodachrome a proper send-off.
“I thought, what better way to kind of honor the memory of the film than to try and photograph iconic places and people? It’s in (my) DNA to want to tell stories where the action is, that shed light on the human condition,” the photographer said.
McCurry (who has already developed the film at Dwayne’s Photo Service in Parsons, Kan. — the last place in the world that develops Kodachrome film) pointed his camera at a number of New York City landmarks, including The Brooklyn Bridge and Grand Central Station, as well as famous faces like Robert De Niro. Then he headed to India, returning to where he shot some of his most notable work, all on the classic film.
The documentary, which chronicles McCurry’s 6-week trip around the world and the pressure of capturing something important in each precious image, is scheduled to air sometime early next year.
What about you? If you had the very last roll of Kodachrome film, what would you photograph?
Everything You wanted To Know about DIYing a Tilt Shift Lens For Less Than $10
Tilt Shift Lenses are cool. They are those lenses that allow you to take those miniature looking photographs.
I dare you to get a real one; Both Nikon and Canon models are so pricey that you have to give a kidney to afford them. (OK, maybe just a pinky). But we have some good news. Bhautik Joshi (the inventor of the weirdly named plunger cam) and John Swierzbin (who is a DIY lens master) came up with an extensive tutorial about building your own tilt shift lenses.
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Tilt Shift Lenses are cool. They are those lenses that allow you to take those miniature looking photographs.
I dare you to get a real one; Both Nikon and Canon models are so pricey that you have to give a kidney to afford them. (OK, maybe just a pinky). But we have some good news. Bhautik Joshi (the inventor of the weirdly named plunger cam) and John Swierzbin (who is a DIY lens master) came up with an extensive tutorial about building your own tilt shift lenses.
The Moment It Clicks / Joe McNally - A Book Review
I just put down Joe McNally's The Moment It clicks. It clicked. I don't really know how to catalog this book, it is not a learn-photography-techniques book, not a biography and not a Manifesto. Or maybe it is a little bit of all three.
When coming to review it I didn't really know how to break the book down, there is some structure to it created by having four different chapter and some sections, but it didn't for feel right to go part by part and review it. instead it felt right-er to review the whole thing as a whole.
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I just put down Joe McNally's The Moment It clicks. It clicked. I don't really know how to catalog this book, it is not a learn-photography-techniques book, not a biography and not a Manifesto. Or maybe it is a little bit of all three.
When coming to review it I didn't really know how to break the book down, there is some structure to it created by having four different chapter and some sections, but it didn't for feel right to go part by part and review it. instead it felt right-er to review the whole thing as a whole.
1970′s Polaroid – Still Got It After All These Years
Polaroid has still got it after all these years. As proof, and for some Friday fun, check out this 1970′s retro how-to video/advert/documentary. Still cool and amazingly poignant.
Polaroid – the original social network.
Snap a picture, show your friends = Create. Share Sustain.
Note the range, accessibility and the diversity.
Pretty impressive.
Reminder to check out the Impossible Project, plus one of my recent Polaroid snapshots after the jump.
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[btw, just picked up the polaroid vid from my homie, APE.]
How To Build The Smallest Intervalometer In The World
If you are into time lapse you must have checked the option of getting an Intervalometer. as you can see from the Canon and Nikon links an Intervalometer is not cheap. Not really expensive either, but definitely not cheap. So As usual I ask: what can you DIY about it?
Some cameras already have the time lapse feature built in, and Canon photographers can turn to CHDK for adding a time lapse feature. But there is a third, cooler version if you are into electronics (which I know lots of site readers are not afraid of).
Achim Sack - a super electronics engineer - has a project for building an intervalometer the size of a finger nail. It needs no power and learns the interval between shots as you go. If you are into embedded programming, this is a project for you, if not, "move along nothing to see..." [Image credit: tonyVC]
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If you are into time lapse you must have checked the option of getting an Intervalometer. as you can see from the Canon and Nikon links an Intervalometer is not cheap. Not really expensive either, but definitely not cheap. So As usual I ask: what can you DIY about it?
Some cameras already have the time lapse feature built in, and Canon photographers can turn to CHDK for adding a time lapse feature. But there is a third, cooler version if you are into electronics (which I know lots of site readers are not afraid of).
Achim Sack - a super electronics engineer - has a project for building an intervalometer the size of a finger nail. It needs no power and learns the interval between shots as you go. If you are into embedded programming, this is a project for you, if not, "move along nothing to see..." [Image credit: tonyVC]
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