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Helping Each Other Out: Paying It Forward

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Mar 2, 2010 in Survival Stories | 11 comments

Sometimes, I wish I had a posse — a group of skilled photo folks to help me with my shoots. All of us who work alone know how difficult it can be to do something complex, particularly on location. Some shoots require an extra set or two of hands, another set of eyes, and a sounding board for...

Protecting Our Work: Watermarking Part II — Batch Processing

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Feb 22, 2010 in Featured Articles | 3 comments

In the last post, we created a “brush” to use when signing or placing a copyright notice on our images. Using the brush, one image at a time, works well. But, when we have a big job, a lot of images we want to protect all at once, it’s not the way to get the job done. That’s where...

Lighting Like MacGyver

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Feb 15, 2010 in Quick Focus, Random Thoughts | 2 comments

For many, “available light” photography is synonymous with “natural light” photography — the use of the sun as the main light source. But, for us MacGyvers, the meaning is a bit different. To us, it means using whatever light is “available” — be it the sun or...

Honoring Creative Rights: ASCAP Music Licenses

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Feb 15, 2010 in Quick Focus, Random Thoughts | 0 comments

Whether or not it is best to use music during a shoot is open to debate. Some feel it relaxes the model and helps him or her find a “rhythm” that creates a dance like partnership with the photographer. Others think the music is a distraction and prefer to work with words to get the best from...

onOne Suite 5: Diverse and Powerful Plugins

Posted by Steve Herzberg on Jan 28, 2010 in Quick Focus | 0 comments

With the release of Plug-In Suite 5, onOne has raised their prices — including the discount price they have allowed me to offer my students and readers. Graciously, onOne has allowed me to offer my students and readers the Suite at a heavily discounted price — $379.99. The latest version of...