Reviews on gear and software

Working with one light source……and some Rogue magic.

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Friday it was time for the small flash workshop with Nadine as my model.

During the small flash workshop the main thing I teach the students is how to work with both E-TTL and full manual mode. The thing I focus up at the start of the workshop is that E-TTL can be easily “fooled” or in other words is not perfect. By explaining this and also explaining how to solve it (and throwing in manual mode with a light-meter) the students are beginning to recognize the problems in a scene and most importantly learn how to counteract the problems.

The fun thing is that you will see that after the first setup most students already pick this up with the next setup.
And to be honest it’s not difficult, but you have to see it to understand it 🙂

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Wacom Bamboo stylus

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On Thursday I had a nice talk with Wacom Netherlands and we will be working together in the future (if all goes as planned), while we were talking my attention was drawn to the Wacom Bamboo stylus. I love using my iPad (as many of you guys) but the main problem for me was getting a good stylus which could be used to place signatures under our modelreleases (for which I use easyrelease and highly recommend this app), one great solution was the stylus sock which is a home made stylus “sock” and to be honest that works like a charm and I loved using it for some months now, but let’s be honest when Wacom makes something I’m always interested to test it out, so ………

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Final Cut Pro X, a photographers first look

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Well ok, as mentioned yesterday I “was” pretty excited about the new Final Cut Pro X.
And rest assure I’m still very excited about it.
This is in no way a review of any kind, but merely a first look for me as a photographer with some experience with both Final cut Pro and iMovie.
Do please read this as a FIRST LOOK, simply put some things I might write down are simply things I maybe do wrong or don’t understand yet, so feel absolutely free to add to this blog post.

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Final Cut Pro X has been released, first ideas and discussions

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Yesterday it was finally there, Final Cut Pro X.
I’ve been using Final Cut Pro for some time and experimented a bit with Adobe Premiere (which to be honest looks promising but somehow doesn’t click with me). In the last few months however I must admit that I’ve been more and more drifting towards iMovie (don’t laugh but read on).

 

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