It's with great pleasure that I announce the release of the new DIY Ebook.
My great friend Udi Tirosh from the http://www.diyphotography.net just recently released it's new Ebook "Your Complete Guide To Building A Photography Studio At Home". This is a thrilled Ebook with lots and lots information on how to build your own photo accessories gear.
Not to mention that a couple of articles are from the Lighting Mods blog that Udi as asked me to use them on the book and which I'm very proud to finally see the light of day.
You cannot miss this one!!!
Expands and Compliments DIYP's Lighting Section
Over the last year, one of the questions that I've been asked most is Why isn't there a DIYP book? So I set out and along with the photography discussed; what book would be a great resource for readers that are both into DIY, Photography and Strobism? We thought that it would be a book that shows how a lighting-oriented photographer can setup a complete studio at his or her living room or garage.
Today, I am happy to bring a 6 months effort into conclusion.
Home Studio Photography is a brother read to the lighting section here on the blog. It contains some projects from the blog which have been revised and updated, along with 6 new projects never seen before.
It also gives me pleasant tingles to announce that Home Studio Photography features projects from guest contributors: Nick Wheeler, David Turman, Rui M. Leal, Matt Haines, Megan Abshire, Sandra Freeman and Alex Campagna.
23 Home Studio Projects For Every Modifier Imaginable
With 16 Full Tutorials, 5 Quick Tips, 3 Ghetto Setups and 3 Cheat Sheets, the book provides a stepping stone into the world of cheap, fun studio building and then studio shooting.
Projects Included:
* The Easiest Softbox In The World
* DIY Strip Light
* The Best Softbox Ever
* Continuous Light Softbox
* Turkey Pan Beauty Dish
* Foamboard Reflector
* V Cards
* PVC Diffusion Screen
* The ‘Oh So Famous’ Cereal Snoot
* Coroplast Gridspot
* Black Straws Grid
* PVC Light Stand
* Pony Clamp Stand
* Stick In A Can
* Light Tent
* Underlight With A Cardboard Box
The book also features an equipment guide page from B&H. The items in the guide were selected as the ones I honestly recommend for starting a small home studio. It is this product page and B&H support that helped me kick start this project, so please consider sending them your business.
Home Studio Photography In A Nutshell:
* Walks you through the relevant projects for building all the modifiers needed for a studio
* Shows how to build cheap, yet fully functional versions of expensive lighting modifiers
* Detailed step by step tutorials, with images and diagrams to illustrate the build process of each project
* Quick Tips: Short and fun projects that require little craftsmanship
Get Your Copy Today
You can also get a copy of the book by cliking here.
Start small, think BIG
Do It Yourself (DIY), How To... and a lot of Photography tips.
By Rui M. Leal
Adobe Lightroom 3.3, Camera Raw 6.3 & Photoshop CS5 12.0.2 update Available
The Final versions are here, also available is the an update version of the Photoshop CS5 now to version 12.0.2.Lightroom 3.3 and Camera Raw 6.3 are now available as final releases on Adobe.com and through the update mechanisms available in Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3. These updates include bug fixes, new camera support and new lens profiles.
New Camera Support
* Canon PowerShot G12
* Canon PowerShot S95
* Nikon D7000
* Nikon Coolpix P7000
* Nikon D3100
* Olympus E-5
* Panasonic DMC-GF2
* Panasonic DMC-GH2
* Pentax K-5
* Pentax K-r
* Ricoh GXR, GR LENS A12 28mm F2.5
* Samsung NX100
* Samsung TL350 (WB2000)
* Sony A560
* Sony A580
New Lens Profile Support
Lens Name
Canon EF 100mm f/2 USM
Canon EF 200mm f/2 L IS USM
Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 L USM
Canon EF 20mm f/2.8 USM
Canon EF 24mm f/1.4 L USM
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM**
Canon EF 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 L IS USM
Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 USM
Canon EF 400mm f/2.8 L IS USM
Canon EF 400mm f/4 DO IS USM
Canon EF 600mm f/4 L IS USM
Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM
Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM**
Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS**
Canon PowerShot G10**
Canon PowerShot G11
Canon PowerShot G12
Nikon AF DC-NIKKOR 105mm f/2D
Nikon AF DC-NIKKOR 135mm f/2D
Nikon AF Micro-NIKKOR 200mm f/4D IF-ED
Nikon AF NIKKOR 180mm f/2.8D IF-ED
Nikon AF NIKKOR 20mm f/2.8D
Nikon AF NIKKOR 24mm f/2.8D
Nikon AF NIKKOR 28mm f/2.8D
Nikon AF NIKKOR 85mm f/1.8D
Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED**
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 200-400mm f/4G ED VR II
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 300mm f/2.8G ED VR II
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 300mm f/4D IF-ED
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 400mm f/2.8G ED VR
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 500mm f/4G ED VR
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 600mm f/4G ED VR
Nikon AF-S VR NIKKOR 200mm f/2G IF-ED
Nikon AF-S VR NIKKOR 300mm f/2.8G IF-ED
Nikon AF-S VR Zoom-NIKKOR 200-400mm f/4G IF-ED
Nikon AF-S VR Zoom-NIKKOR 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 ED VR
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 85mm f/1.4G
Samsung WB2000 (TL350)
Canon TAMRON SP AF Aspherical Di LD [IF] 17-35mm f/2.8-4 o77
SIGMA SIGMA DP1
SIGMA SIGMA DP1S
SIGMA SIGMA DP1X
SIGMA SIGMA DP2
SIGMA SIGMA DP2S
Nikon NIKON COOLPIX P7000
PENTAX smc PENTAX-DA 15mm F4 ED AL Limited
PENTAX smc PENTAX-DA*16-50mm F2.8 ED AL [IF] SDM
PENTAX smc PENTAX-DA 21mm F3.2 AL Limited
PENTAX smc PENTAX-FA 31mm F1.8AL Limited
PENTAX smc PENTAX-DA 35mm F2.8 Macro Limited
PENTAX smc PENTAX-DA 40mm F2.8 Limited
PENTAX smc PENTAX-FA 43mm F1.9 Limited
PENTAX smc PENTAX-DA*50-135mm F2.8 ED [IF] SDM
PENTAX smc PENTAX-DA*55mm F1.4 SDM
PENTAX smc PENTAX-DA*60-250mm F4 ED [IF] SDM
PENTAX smc PENTAX-DA 70mm F2.4 Limited
PENTAX smc PENTAX-FA 77mm F1.8 Limited
PENTAX smc PENTAX-DA*200mm F2.8 ED [IF] SDM
PENTAX smc PENTAX-DA*300mm F4 ED [IF] SDM
Canon TAMRON SP 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di VC USD A005E
Nikon TAMRON SP 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di VC USD A005N
Ricoh A12 28mm F2.5 (GR Lens)
**These lens profiles were in the previous release but have been updated to address quality concerns.
NOTE: The Pentax, Tamron and Sigma profiles are the result of collaboration between Adobe and the respective lens manufacturer.
Lightroom 3.3 Bugs Fixed
* Edit in PS CS4 from LR 3.2 did not give option to render to TIFF/PSD
* Process Version defaulted to PV 2003 when Lightroom’s installed Develop Presets are applied on Import
* All Auto-ISO values were not properly handled for the Nikon D3s
* An error could be generated when sorting by “User Order” in Collections
* There was an incorrect Profile Name tag for Canon 18-55 and 17-40 lens profiles
* Facebook album selection only displayed up to 25 albums
* Lightroom 3 could fail to launch Photoshop CS5 if Photoshop CS4 was uninstalled after the Photoshop CS5 installation
* Numerous cloning or healing spots could have caused Lightroom to become unresponsive
* Lightroom could have crashed when the metadata filter is selected and the grid is displaying all images in the catalog
* Lightroom 3.2 could have failed to import all of the images from an iPhone 4
* Some Sigma X3F raw files were rendering incorrectly
* Choosing the “Make a second copy to” option on import would result in incorrect folder structure for the second copy
* Resetting the crop angle by double-clicking the Angle slider removed a custom aspect ratio
* A tooltip for the Japanese language version of Lightroom 3 displayed the wrong keyboard shortcut for “Flag as Pick”
* Paste Settings did not apply to all images in the Develop module Filmstrip
* Smart collections in Lightroom 3 did not use the same definition of “All Searchable Metadata” previously available in Lightroom 2
* Text watermarks or portions of text watermarks could have failed to be applied to images on export
* SmugMug publish collection dialog included a mixture of English text when using a language setting other than English
* Lightroom would not import files from the Panasonic LX5 that were shot with the iZoom Function set to above 90mm
* Choosing the Limit File Size option in the export dialog could have stripped certain EXIF fields from the exported file
* The Targeted Adjustment Tool may have performed slowly in the Lightroom 3.3 release candidate
* A single image published to multiple collections for a single publish service did not display comments properly
* Updating an existing Develop preset with all settings could have failed under certain conditions
* The watermark drop shadow settings behaved differently in Lightroom 3.2 when compared to Lightroom 3.0. They have been returned to the Lightroom 3.0 behavior.
* The YYYYMMDD file renaming option was not available when the Lightroom language setting was set to Dutch
* An existing Smart Collection updated to filter for all photos with “Ratings is Zero” would show all images in the catalog
* Publishing an empty category to SmugMug would cause an error
* JPEG exports in the Lightroom 3.3 Release Candidate were significantly slower than the same export process in Lightroom 3.2.
* A graphical Identity Plate included in output was not correctly color managed
* Deleting all images in a Flickr photoset could have caused Lightroom to return an error message
* Changing the sort order to “User Order” while in Survey View on the Mac may have caused an error to appear
* Lightroom could have failed to respond when viewing an image containing numerous cloning or healing spots at 1:1 view
* RGB values were not displaying properly in the white balance tool
* The Smart Collection criteria “Folder starts with” was not working properly
* The navigator panel in the Develop module would incorrectly display threshold information when holding down the alt or option key and applying adjustments
* Applying a flag, star or label setting to an image via the toolbar in the Develop module while in auto-advance mode would result in an incorrect setting display for the subsequent image
* The application of color noise reduction at low color temperatures (e.g., tungsten or candlelight) could have provided results below our quality standards
Camera Raw 6.3 Fixes
* Camera Raw would not correctly read files from the Panasonic LX5 that were shot with the iZoom Function set to above 90mm
* The scroll bar could stop working properly with over 150 images in the filmstrip
* The DNG Converter could prevent customers from setting a “Destination” folder outside of their Home directory
* Some Sigma X3F raw files were rendering incorrectly
* Embedding GPS information into a Sony ARW file using third party solutions utilizing Exiftool could result in a color shift
* All Auto-ISO values were not properly handled for the Nikon D3s
* Updated Camera Raw default settings were not respected in Bridge thumbnails or previews after applying a rating
* JPEG and TIFF Previews re-rendered as over-exposed after cropping in Camera Raw
* Adjustment settings via the numeric entry field could have failed with multiple raw files selected
Adobe Photoshop CS5 10.0.2 update fixes
* A number of potential security vulnerabilities have been addressed
* Top type and font crashers found in the field have been addressed
* A number of performance issues have been addressed
* Crash opening 3D layers has been addressed
* Color Engine crash has been resolved
* Intermittent file format issues addressed
* Shift scrolling bug fixed
* Sharpen crasher fixed
* Marching ants not seen at certain zoom levels fixed
* Metadata focus distance issue addressed
* File info bug addressed for Orphea Studio jpg's
* TWAIN crashers fixed
* Brush cursor bug fixed
* Histogram progress bar issue fixed
* Droplet issues addressed
While you are at it don't forget to update the Adobe Bridge too.
Adobe Bridge CS5 4.0.4 Update
This update includes several important bug fixes which will improve the stability and launch performance of Bridge.
The changes include:
— Some top crash fixes
— Launch performance enhancement
— Support to MPEG-PS file preview
— Enhance stability of interaction with Adobe Drive
— Other bug fixes improving user workflow
If you having problems with the Adobe Photoshop Twain Driver they have also released a new version with some bugs corrected.
You can download them directly from these links:
Lightroom 3.3 update (Win, Mac)
Camera Raw 6.3 Update (Win, Mac)
Adobe Photoshop CS5 Update 10.0.2 (Win, Mac)
Adobe Bridge CS5 4.0.4 (Win, Mac)
Adobe Twain driver Update (Mac)
Canon 5D MarkII Firmware update 2.0.8
Canon released another update version of 5D MarkII firmware to correct some phenomenons... This firmware update (Version 2.0.8) incorporates the following changes and fixes.
1. Fixes a phenomenon in which movies are not taken at the shooting mode registered in the user's settings if a shooting mode Aperture priority (or Shutter priority) is registered in any of the camera's user settings (C1, C2, C3) and the user attempts to shoot a movie.
2. Fixes a phenomenon in which the shutter will not release when pressing the shutter button when the auto power off function is set to "on".
3. Fixes a phenomenon in which overexposure occurs when shooting a Live View shooting simulation with the ISO speed set to L.
4. Fixes a phenomenon in which the settings of the Speedlite transmitter ST-E2 revert to the default settings when both the camera and the ST-E2 are set to auto power off.
5. Fixes a phenomenon in which the Macro Ring Lite (MR-14EX, MT-24EX) and slave flash do not sync while shooting wirelessly.
The Version 2.0.8 firmware being released this time is for cameras with firmware up to Version 2.0.7. If the camera's firmware is already Version 2.0.8, it is not necessary to update the firmware.
Direct download link here.
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