30 NOV Monday Night Light Link

Follow the link below to register for Monday Night Light, our weekly, live web seminar.  The best and least expensive (free) training on the web broadcasting live each Monday.

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MNL Dark for Thanksgiving Week

We'll be dark for next Monday's webinar.  Taking a little time for the Thanksgiving holiday.  Video recaps will be up shortly.

Here at Light we are just starting a three day Lightroom Intensive.  No better place to learn Lightroom!

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Night Shooting

©2009 Luis Arismendi

Luis Arismendi took this shot of Hal during the Leonid meteor shower peak early morning 17 November.

Overall the shower was a little disappointing but a three hour night shoot was a great time.   Caught an interesting fire in Montana de Oro and a cool series of some type of ionized cloud left over from a Leonid meteor.  I'll have some shots up soon.

We're finishing up here with Day 4 of the Studio Photography class and start a three day Lightroom Intensive tomorrow morning.

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16 Nov Monday Night Light Link

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See you online.

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Central Coast

Every now and again I have to stop and look at the incredible beauty of the central coast.  A three shot stitched pano from this evening.  15" exposures at f/16.

Happy Veterans Day!

Companion Shot

The companion shot to yesterday's post.  24 shot total HDR panorama with the Canon 5D Mk II, EF 70-200mm f/4L, Induro C213, and RRS BH-55/pano kit.  I wanted a different aspect ratio so I shot the horizontal pano with vertical segments/components.

This is a version of the master file.  Have not yet decided on a crop.

Off to Los Angeles for the LA Digital Imagery Group discussion this evening.

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HDR Panorama of the Rock

A little high dynamic range (HDR) panorama from a shoot last week.  Scenery around here is not too shabby.

I shot the component images with a Canon 5D Mk II and EF 70-200mm f/4L mounted to an Induro C213 tripod, Really Right Stuff BH-55, and a RRS pano kit.  I had six panorama segments and each segment had three HDR components so 18 shots total. 

My workflow is to bring everything into Lightroom where I prep for export to Photomatix Pro.  I normally merge and tone map the HDR components first and then stitch the panorama in Photoshop. 

The image is huge.  Without any interpolation the image would print 24 x 110 at Light recommended print resolution. 

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