Content Aware Fill – New photoshop feature from Adobe Labs
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Photoshop, Retouching
Phew, it’s been a while since my last post – we’ve been so busy working on retouching projects that time has flown by. I’ve been in California now for almost 4 months! It has been an absolute blast.
I was at Photoshop World in Las Vegas at the beginning of the month – where I met a whole bunch of the guys from NAPP and learnt a few new things. At the opening Keynote one of the presenters demonstrated some of the new features Adobe has been working on.
Here are two new technologies they’ve been developing. Unfortunately we aren’t to know when they might be showing up in a release version of Photoshop. The first is content aware patching. I use the patch tool regularly every day, so this looks pretty exciting – though whether or not it will be useful in real-world commercial retouching remains to be seen….Check out the very cool video demo here…
The second is similar, probably based on the same algorithms – content aware healing. This looks like it will be tremendously useful for day to day retouching where extraneous elements need to be removed from source images. Check it out here…
Courtesy of John Nack from Adobe!
Tags: News, Photoshop, Retouching
Back to my roots then to the polar opposite – Borneo to California
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Travel Photography, Wildlife Photography
Big change is coming. I’ve once again self diagnosed extreme wanderlust and have made plans to have myself remedied – too long have I been cooped up in the studio.
First stop - Malaysian Borneo – where I will live for two weeks deep in the South East Asian Jungle. Sabah is where I’ll be going, a Malaysian State on the north-eastern part of Borneo, the world’s third largest island and known as arguably the best place in Southeast Asia to observe wildlife. We’ll be spending most of our time in the interior of the region, along the edge of the Kinabatangan River and at a research station in one of Sabah’s largest reserves. The jungles of Sabah contain some of the oldest rainforests in the world and are home to an abundance of animal and plant species. Pygmy elephants, Proboscis Monkeys, Orangutans, pitcher plants, orchids, and the world’s largest flower, the Rafflesia, can be found. Lots of photography will be taking place and I have an interesting and somewhat innovative project to trial while I’m there.
Second Stop – California - where I will be working with a photographer who I greatly admire to help coordinate photo shoots for some of the biggest brands in the world. More news on that when I touch down in early June.
Lots of new photos landing soon…
Canon Australia Professional Photography Awards: Perth Exhibition
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under News, Perth Creative Scene
For those of you in Perth, be sure to check out the travelling Canon APPA exhibition being held in the Central Park Building (152-158 St. George’s Terrace) between the 20th of April and the 1st of May.
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From Canon’s website:
The Canon Australian Professional Photography Awards (Canon APPA) represents the very best in Australian Professional Photography. Now in their 32nd year, the Canon Australian Professional Photography Awards recognise the top professional photographers in Australia. The 2008 awards received a record number of entries with an increase in submissions of 45%.
The Canon Australian Professional Photography Awards are open to all Australian and overseas professional photographers. Photographs are individually critiqued and scored via a rigorous peer-review judging process to determine the highest-scoring prints across the different categories of Advertising/Fashion, Editorial, Commercial/Industrial, Illustrative, Portrait, Wedding, Environment, Science & Nature, Landscape, Photo Illustrator and an Open Award. From the 10 category winners, one photographer is chosen as the major winner.
In 2008, the major prize and title of Canon AIPP Australian Professional Photographer of the Year was awarded to Melbourne-based professional photographer, Mercury Megaloudis, of Megagraphics Photography.
5D mkII Shipping – More HD video love
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under GEAR
So, the much awaited 5D mkII is now available in China and Hong Kong, and is beginning to to ship to those who put their names down first on the uber long preorder lists in the states.
Australia isn’t far behind, with rumour being that Canon is shipping a handful of units (some say as few as 150) around Australia as soon as today.
I’m hoping to have mine at least by early next week!
Since my last post, a number of new, well produced films shot with the 5D mkII have surfaced. First up is a large production Korean adaptation of Reverie and secondly we have some journalistic stlye footage of Beijing.
Enjoy!
EOS 5D Mark2 Movi – Prism from chador on Vimeo.
Canon EOS5DmkII, One night in Beijing. from Dan Chung on Vimeo.
Both of these movies allow Vimeo members to download the originals for closer inspection, which is worth doing as Vimeo tops out at 24 fps for HD. That means these 30 fps movies are getting a crappy 24p conversion when Vimeo compresses them, which hides some of the 30p smoothness, but not in a good way.
Tags: 5D mkII, Multimedia, News, video
Earth from Above: Perth photography exhibition
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Perth Creative Scene
For those of you in Perth, don’t miss one of the most incredible and thought provoking photography exhibitions you may ever see. Yann Arthus Bertrand’s world famous ‘Earth from Above’ series (which has been viewed by 60 million people worldwide in its book and gallery forms) is exhibited outside the Perth Art Gallery until January. The outdoor presentation runs 24hrs a day and documents some of the most incredible places on earth, from a perspective you’ve never seen them before – the air.
I first became familiar with Bertrand’s amazing work from his book ‘Being a Photographer‘ and was pleasantly surprised when I saw this traveling exhibition would be coming to Perth.
While you’re down there, you can also check out the small gallery of Nature Photography at the Western Australian Museum, which is about 100m away. Part of the ANZANG nature photography competition, the traveling gallery encompasses some of the best nature photography from Australia and New Zealand.
- Check it!
Tags: Exhibition, News, perth, Perth Creative Scene
Lightroom 2 released!
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Lightroom, News
I am a disciple of lightroom.
This piece of software makes my life so much easier, speeding up everything from sorting through thousands of images to making adjustments via Adobe’s powerful Adobe Camera Raw interface.
Big News, the official full release of Lightroom 2 was released this morning!!!
It is an amazing upgrade from the last iteration, Lightroom 1.4, and promises photographers an even more enhanced workflow experience.
My favourite new features include localised adjustments (awesome when wielding a Wacom Tablet) and support for dual monitors.
According to Adobe, the powers that be have deemed the official top new features list to include:
* Local adjustment brush
* Enhanced organizational tools
* Volume management
* Extensible architecture
* Multiple monitor support
* Flexible print package functionality
* Streamlined Photoshop CS3 integration
* Enhanced output sharpening
* 64-bit support for Windows® and Mac OS
To find out more, check out the awesome Lightroom 2 Learning Centre presented by Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski from the NAPP.
Enjoy!
Tags: adobe, Lightroom, News, release
Ray Hanas – Where service still matters…
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under News
Tags: martial arts, News, ray hanas, service
Demystifying Camera Specifications – Canon 50MP sensor
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under News
There are reports that Canon is working on producing a 50 megapixel sensor, courtesy of a roughly translated and interpreted Chinese article from the Chinese P&E show.
