Northern Voice 2008 – Notes from the field (Day 1)

(things to Google….now or later)

• blogtv
• voxant (need to revisit)
• splash press media
• b5 media (Canadian)
• daily pixel
• "smarter than your average blog"
• 9rules.com
• web blog zinc
• gocker/gawker media
• 451 press (pay by traffic)
• raised eyebrow
• koumbit.org
• canadianwebhosting.com
• alex king, share this
• reddit canada
• Your Story on the CBC
• cogdogblog
• voicethread.com
• www.dopplr.com

Photocamp 2008

• light painting (Rachael – goddess_spiral on flickr)

• long exposures using LED lights
• 30 seconds shot, complete darkness, light the person in a quick flash,

tbray.org (SLR vs Pocket cam)

• always have a camera (SLR but have a pocket camera)
• over 6MP is not that good, gets crowded on the sensor
• Prime lenses is better (rather than zooming)
• The Online Photographer
• Canon G9 real good jpeg conversions (no need for RAW)
• Sigma DP1
• Ricoh GR Digital II (Prime lens, durable)
• luminous-landscape.com (DMD)
• DPReview

Lighting (use fast prime lens)

• high contrast is the enemy
• Alex Waterhouse Hayward – best way to learn photography is to use one light source. Rip off and imitate other photos and make your own style.

Novak Rogac – (rogic on flickr)

• HDR (shadow detail)
• whoa – planet hawthorn (panorama and autostitch.net)

• adjusts exposures, does everything
• photojojo.com tutorial (photoshop)
• doublestitch

Duane Storey (duanestorey.com)

• Make $$$ with your photographs
• Flickr – storage / community / google
• Smugmug – selling

• print service that didn’t require babysitting
• watermarking of images
• private galleries
• some kind of branding ability
• $40 – $150 per year
• Great store front

Miranda Lievers

• Natural lighting
• Rule of taking photos: light first, then location
• Best: shooting down next to soft window light.
• soft directional filtered light, ie. window, doorway (dark cloth over window)
• cloudy days are good, people don’t squint, good for portraits
• sunshine as hair light, lamp light, urban light
• adjusting your subject to account for poor light. (avoid racoon eyes), move them or having them doing something else.
• shooting at high noon: (least favourite time), need to change perspective.
• isolate subject by dropping or blowing the background
• shooting with backlight indoors and outdoors
• playing with found light and shadow
• Fav: early morning, sunrise, sunset (hard directional sunlight).

Reilly Lievers

• jerkwithacamera.com
• Off camera flash, getting light source away from camera
• flash on the floor
• flash on the left
• reflectors (even a white piece of paper)
• soft gold reflectors to get good skin tones

Derek (depth of field , wide-aperture – crank it out)

• penmachine.com (penmachine on flickr)

http://matttrent.com

• b+w digital darkroom
• lens/lighting, digital sensor, photoshop
• CMOS, CCD = DxO Optics Pro 4 (photoshop plugin) dxo.com
• for bw = curves + levels, channel blending, layer masks
• squarewithin on flickr