Photo Shop Fail

Target recently posted a photo to a product on their website that was clearly photoshop and was just an outright terrible job. To read the full article head over to Jezebel

Get Off Your Ass & Get Noticed with Gary Vaynerchuk

I recently stumbled on this video and I think that it's worth everyone watching. It's about how to market yourself in our current social media landscape.

Filming the Short Film

Yesterday we did the filming for our short film, I think it went well considering the circumstances. As I talked about in the last post we were supposed to film at the Stevens Estate but the lady who would let up in couldn't stay late enough, well she got back to me Monday and said that she could stay late tuesday, but at that point we just needed to film it and be done with it. Thats not all though, we were going to start filming at around 3:00 but then two of our actors decided that they were going to go to the school musical rehearsal and so they didn't get out until after five. By the time we all got up to the estate there was only an hour left of light so we were rushed. Once we started filming there were some problems with the audio gear so we had to plug the boom mic into our scenes camera where I mad a mistake so on audio from the boom mic was recorded.  Other then that everything went about as planned.

Film Project Problems

For my english project/the RODE contest project we were going to film at the Steven's Estate, it was going to be a great set for our inn/hotel setting. Originally the person who runs it said that we could film there and then when I asked how monday worked for her she said, ya sure, we are open from 9-2, does that work? Ya that would work great if it wasn't for the me and everyone involved having school until 2:15. We are supposed to film today but because we have a half day on wednesday maybe we can postpone it until then. Who knows. If we can't, I'll do the exterior shots and then film the interior shots at my house. There will be some continuity errors but it's for an english project.

RODE is Giving Away Over $70,000 Worth of Gear

RODE is giving away over $70,000 worth of gear for their "'My RODE Real" International Short Film Contest". Submissions opened on March 1st

One of the projects that I have want to do is turing a girls hair into fire. So this is my practices image that i'm trying it out on. The problem is that I feel that it looks to 2d and that there is not enough depth. What do you guys think?

It's still a very rough draft btw

Changing day into night

For a created a photograph where a girl is looking reading a book where light is illuminating from it for a bookmark contest.
I took the picture during the day but I wanted it to look like I it was night time so I them had the challenge of turning day into night in photoshop and create light coming from the book.
To do it I lowered the exposure in an adjustment layer and then masked out the girl. Next I made another adjustment layer and lowered the exposure a bit less and then masked out the background. For the blue light I just used the paintbrush tool and then set the blend layer to color.
Then for the light coming out of the book I created a gradient using the pen tool and then did another smaller one to make the light closer to the book more powerful. I them used Gaussian blur to make the edges fuzzy.

Photo provided by Nikon

Nikon Finally released the specs of the replacement to the Nikon D4, called the D4s. This camera will be a low light monster. While the D4s will have a 16.2 megapixel sensor like the D4 Nikon claims that it is a completely redesigned sensor which has a standard maximum ISO of 25,600 opposed to the D4 which has standard maximum ISO of 12,800. That gives the D4s and entire stop above the D4. The changes doesn't stop there either, Nikon bumped the max fps from 10 fps to 11 fps. Thanks to the new expeed 4 processor the D4s can shoot 1080p at 60 fps, a first for a professional DSLR. The D4s is available starting March 6th and will set you back $6,500. You can pre order the camera from BH Photo here.