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Help Portraits! 12.12.09!

Brian Larter — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:49:26 +0000

A few hours and several e-mails later we are in full fledged go mode! Fellow photogeniuses and my self are planning a huge hoopla at the studio December 12 2009 in accordance to this video. Ideally we are inviting members of the community who may not be able to afford a full fledged family portrait session to come down to the studio and have your wonderful faces photographed by a slew of absolutely amazing and talented photographers.

In the coming weeks we will have more details! But in the mean time if you would like to help out in anyway let us know. We are looking for anyone to give us a hand. Make up artists, hair stylists, Assistants, caterer type people…anyone. If you think you can help us to make someones day special then drop me an e-mail!

Lost in PEI

Brian Larter — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:16:04 +0000

As I mentioned before I am in PEI this week shooting a wedding with my good friend Rob MacAusland. PEI is a pretty interesting place. It’s like an island stuck in time in certain areas. It is also full of abandonment’s! And I sure love shooting caved in houses!

We took a drive up along the north shore yesterday in the Cavendish area and found a few amazing examples of abandonment’s. Here is a small sample of what we capture on our travels.

The end of the world as we know it!

Brian Larter — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:29:30 +0000

If you know anything about me then you know my love for anything Post Apocalyptic. Movies, games or novels. Madmax, Waterworld, Fallout, or even any Zombie flicks, they all got my imagination running off in all sorts of directions. And now even with the rise of Steam Punk I feel it was time for a new personal project.

The new personal project that will take place over the next year or so, I decided I wanted to recreate a variety of characters from my imagination, heavily influenced by those movies and games. I’ve recruited a a crazy batch of friends and model to pose and create these characters in their heads. These are simple studio portraits of those characters but eventually we will be getting outside and making wonderful pieces of art.

Watch here on the blog, I’ll be sure to post more photos as we progress with the project.

5D MK II: Droooooooooolllllllll……..

Brian Larter — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:00:30 +0000

I wonder if love for such a camera is considered adultery against my girlfriend? Shoot she may read this, but after you watch this video you will completely understand, and so will she.

REVERIE, an independently-produced video by Explorer of Light Vincent Laforet

CS4 and the ever changing software

Brian Larter — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:29:45 +0000

I started getting into photography back when Photoshop 6 was just released. All I had in my possession at that time was a small brick that took photos at around 1 mega pixel and had no view screen. I gave that camera to a friend who now uses it as a door stop. Those where days of technology, when chat rooms ruled the internet and web camming was new and innovative.

Earlier this month Adobe announced that they where going to announce CS4 at a later date (yes they announced that they would be making an announcement) and the world rejoiced (or groaned depending on if you had just bought CS3 the week before). As with any new software upgrade there is a whole swath of advances and upgrades to small insignificant things you will never use or look at. You better not be using that liquefy tool!

Rob Galbraith made a nice little post about the upgrades to CS4 that effect us photographers and will of course be of interest to us.

Leading the list of changes for photographers in the new version of Photoshop for Mac and Windows is a revamped and much improved user interface that replaces various image adjustment dialogs with an Adjustments panel, simplified masking, a new Vibrance control, new panorama creation features and a new depth-of-field blending function plus quicker, smoother navigation of really large photos.

The Mac version gains 16 bits per colour printing, while the Windows version will operate as a 64 bit application for faster performance when large amounts of memory are required to complete a process.

Camera Raw 5, included with Photoshop CS4, adds localized adjustments (by painting or using a gradient to selectively apply the adjustment) and natural-looking vignette filtering even after a crop is applied.

Also included with Photoshop CS4 is Bridge CS4, which offers faster startup, faster browsing of RAW files (by optionally displaying the JPEG inside the RAW file), direct contact sheet and web gallery creation (gallery options include some from Photoshop Lightroom 2) and more.

Thank goodness for my pile of student loans and little card that says I’m still a student as the upgrades will be ship in the fourth quarter of 2008 for $699 ($999 for the Extended version). The upgrade from Photoshop CS and on will luckily only be $199 ($349 for Extended). The rest of the CS4 family will be relased then as well.

Check out Robs site for more info and a few screen shots.

Source: Adobe Photoshop CS4 officially unveiled

Jarrah

Brian Larter — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:52:39 +0000

HPS Strobist: Windsor Cars

Brian Larter — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:16:30 +0000