Its been a busy few months here at Copyrightimage, lots of special retouching / book projects I cannot reveal the details of just yet, here are some updates:

WPOTY:
Very pleased to have been asked to attend the Awards Ceremony for Wildlife Photographer of the Year on the 13th October at the Natural History Museum, looking forward to meeting the winners on the night, perhaps they will not all be strangers?. If your attending then please make sure you say hello.


Video:
Recent work commitments means that I’m little behind on producing the “how to” videos but this will be sorted soon with the next entry in the series and some new quick tips in a shorter format that will be easier to produce.

Windows 10:
Having tested Windows 10 thoroughly on several computers I have now installed it on my main workstation. No problems so far and things are a little smoother so I’m happy with that.

I did check things over before making the jump so if you don’t have a second or third machine to test all your older programs / peripherals yourself you may wish to hold off the update. If in doubt give me a call.

File delivery:
Clients wishing to send images for retouching may wish to do so via Dropbox. My Dropbox account is stephen@copyrightimage.co.uk.

I find Dropbox to be the most reliable and flexible method of sending and receiving large files. I have an account with 1TB of space but you don’t need a paid account to share up to 2GB of files on a continuous basis. If you prefer an ftp account then that is still available from me also.

Imaging developments:
Its been another quiet year in imaging terms with no major developments, perhaps a good thing as it helps firm up standards and knowledge.

The new cameras and lenses have improved detail in images and I’m seeing some fine RAW files being delivered to me, I’m expecting an increase in Sony files within the next 12 months.

Benq has joined Eizo and NEC in producing a dedicated monitor for retouching. I have not had chance to see one in action yet so cannot give an immediate buy signal for those on a smaller budget but it does look promising: http://shop.colourconfidence.com/product.php/5602/benq-sw2700pt-pro-27in-ips-lcd-monitor

Adobe’s Creative cloud is still blocking the sun on program licensing but the Photographers bundle of Photoshop and Lightroom is well priced and is a consideration if CS6 is getting a little old for you. In fairness to Adobe they seem to have backed off with their aggressive sign in requests and the new annual plan is more like an upgrade cost than the monthly tax version.

As always, a pleasure to work with some great images this year, looking forward to seeing more and helping others get the most out of their photography and special projects.

Stephen Johnson

You can find notes about the items covered in the video by downloading the accompanying PDF here: https://www.copyrightimage.com/video/video01/Video 1 introduction.pdf

You may recall the retouching environment was just one of the many topics covered in the talk, I intend to cover all the subjects from the talk – and also the ones we couldn’t cover because of time.

I have a provisional list of the titles for videos I will be producing over the coming months here:https://www.copyrightimage.com/video/VideoList.pdf 

All these videos and all their accompanying notes and resource files will be available to workshop attendees for no charge, if you attended the workshop and have not yet given me your email address then please email me with your details so you can see more videos as they are produced.

Future videos and notes may be made available to people who didn’t attend the workshop for a fee.

Please feel free to send feedback.

Many thanks

Stephen

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.

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 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). 

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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)

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