Many thanks for the patience of the people who attended my Imaging workshop at Wildphotos towards the end of last year. A combination of urgent retouching work and an increasing desire to put more and more detail down on paper meant that the promised notes took a back seat until recently.
Stephen Johnson
New 50.6mp Canon cameras available in June
Long wait is (nearly) over. Canon announced the Eos 5DS and 5DS R today. The 5DS R is £200 more and contains either a modified low pass filter or no low pass filter depending on what you read.
Clients shooting landscapes (and gardens!) will certainly benefit from the extra detail these cameras should deliver (there was certainly a big difference between my Nikon D800E images when compared to Canon 1DS MKIII images in such environments so I would expect nothing less with these).
The 8688 x 5792 50.6 mp files does equate to 144mb as an uncompressed 8bit tiff (288mb in 16 bit) so if detail / large crops are not your requirement then this is overkill.
Image Quality from the sample I have seen would suggest better shadow detail when lightening compared to the 1DS MKIII but its a shame they decided to make the sensors in house rather than use a Sony sensor.
For clients holding out for a higher res Canon body – looks like this is it.
Everybody is taking pre orders / selling the 5DS for £2999 inc vat and the 5DS R for £3199 inc vat. Retail price maintenance is illegal in the UK – choice? you have none!
Stephen
New 50.6mp Canon cameras available in June
Long wait is (nearly) over. Canon announced the Eos 5DS and 5DS R today. The 5DS R is £200 more and contains either a modified low pass filter or no low pass filter depending on what you read. Clients shooting landscapes (and gardens!) will certainly benefit from the extra detail these cameras should deliver (there was certainly a big difference between my Nikon D800E images when compared to Canon 1DS MKIII images in such environments so I would expect nothing less with these).
Software advisory: ColorNavigator Fogra validation in Photoshop CC
A bit of an obscure one that may be of interest to a few clients who do their own repro:
I was checking my secondary calibration target I use for judging CMYK images for repro. (This has a dedicated white point setting that matches my viewing booth so I can get a good screen/print correlation using the Epson fogra certified proofing paper)
Edward Leigh
Edward Leigh
Edward, of Excogitate Consultancy and Visual Connections, provides complementary services and backup support to Copyrightimage clients. Edward and Stephen worked together at Getty Images and have maintained a close working relationship since. Edward’s main areas of expertise are web development and online marketing, with a particular focus on image libraries.
https://www.visualconnections.com/index.php
Wildscreen Workshop
Many thanks to all the people who turned up to my workshop at Wildscreen on Friday. It was a fun if intense three hours and I appreciate everyone’s patience as we worked through some of the fundamentals of the critical process of editing
Informational reality
Interesting article over at Petapixel about early beauty retouching. Before Photoshop there were soft leaded pencils in contact with large format negatives.
What I find interesting is the before and after, if one or the other image was presented on its own it would be accepted as a reasonably good portrait.
When they are presented together however there is a ton of new information ready to be digested, concepts of “age”, “beauty” and “the idealized” are there to explore.
Client Story: BBC
Earlier this year I helped work on images for use in the BBC Book “Life Story” to accompany the new series about to air on the BBC in the UK.
What was especially interesting (and historical!) about this work was that a large portion of images in the book were actually shot on the new RED Ultra HD video cameras (4k and 5k)
I have worked with RED UHD video files before but this was the largest and most intense job yet using special video software to set white balance/colour and tone before exporting the high resolution stills as 16bit tiffs for further work in Photoshop.