Leftover Speedlinks, 11-24-2007
(Turkey carcass by MortonPhotographic)• For you continental readers, Rui, over at Lighting Mods now features a dropdown menu of sources for small-flash lighting gear all over Europe. (His most recently updated info is on the right sidebar on his site.)
• Wiz has some thoughts on using direct flash in the vertical orientation (not that there's anything wrong with that) and a super cheap way to attach a bare flash to a stand, here.
• If you are a Fiest fan and a lighting geek (in other words, if you are reading this and you are a Feist fan) you can see a "making of" video of her song, "1234" on YouTube. Shown are fluorescent clamshell light strips mounted (over and under) right to the camera at about the 3:20 mark. They are using the (more expensive) nonflicker video-friendly bulbs, I am sure.
• Chase Jarvis executes a near perfect display of linkbaiting this week, publishing a mondo list of reader-submitted favorite blogs. It scored a 9.9/10 on the Problogger Linkbait Scale, with the East German judge having DQ'd herself because she and Chase were romantically linked during their college days. See it here.
• FlashFlavor posts on underwater dress trasher Kevin Beasley. How far can we be from a "fully-engulfed-in-flames" TTD session?
• Stumbled across a cool behind-the-scenes page on
Nikon's website. (Only hardcore Nikon geeks need apply.)
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by David, at 12:00 AM.
10 Comments:
TTD with fire? That's HOT!
How about a skydiving TTD?
think we can come up with a home depot version of that camera boom used to shoot the music video? that thing was awesome!
You mean you haven't seen Alt F's flaming bride David? Should be available to view on Cut Frame TV. It was a Simple Photo Minute episode a while ago. Cheers and rock-on!
about the Feist video; yup, those are 2' 3200K Kinoflo tubes on either side of the matte box. The camera is mounted on a remote head on a Technocrane.
The video Dave Newton is talking about is here:
http://cutframetv.com/view_video.php?viewkey=75530d9583c34fd356ef
"How far can we be from a "fully-engulfed-in-flames" TTD session?" - Dave beat me to the response!
www.altf.com - It's the first image that comes up in the slideshow.
John Michael Cooper has some cool stuff there!
I read Feist fan, and thought of the author (as I'm not familiar with the lass in the video), and figured someone had come up with an entirely new definition of Pocket Wizard ;-)
This post got me thinking - Where have I seen that before. Back in April 2006 I saw a Simple-Photo-Minute epispode featuring Alt-F and he did TTD with fire:
Check it out!:
http://danesanders.net/video/episode19.mov
This is a mind-bending thought from an imaging engineer from the Nikon link:
Preferred colors also vary with each country or culture. This difference can be easily explained with reference to portraits. Japanese users, for example, prefer whiter skin tones, while Americans prefer skin tones that appear a little more orange. Consider landscape photos for a moment. Since the color of the sky in Tokyo, Las Vegas, or Amsterdam is surely different, it's only natural that users would have varying preferences regarding reproduction of the blues in the sky. In addition to such preferences, colors also differ depending on how pictures are used or the skill of the photographer. These various demands all led to development of the color mode system. In addition to mode I, which is best suited to portraits, mode II, which offers natural color reproduction, and mode III, which reproduces colors similar those achieved in landscape photos taken with film with enhanced color saturation. Hue can also be adjusted so that the preferred colors of all users can be perfectly reproduced. We have also equipped some cameras with modes Ia and IIIa to accommodate the users of those models more precisely. However, we are taking special care to preserve the basic color design concept for mode II throughout our camera lineup. Mode II has remained unchanged since release of the D1X and D1H, standardizing post-processing among all of our cameras.
Hmmm. Feist is coming home (she's from NS) and is doing a concert on Friday. Perhaps this would be the time to do that Strobist Canadian get together in Halifax? Strobist. Canadian Beer. Feist.
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