Our Master Light Program (MLP) has been going on for years. Our latest to make it through the program (not all do) is the talented Vincent Mistretta. Clicking on the link above opens up a gallery of some of the images he took during his time with us. Is the program easy? Well, let Vincent’s words explain that. Enjoy!
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“The experiences you create are the moments that define you.” Seth is one smart cookie and if you add into this GREAT thought photography, wow…powerful stuff!
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I’m always so pleased when one of my favorite images is liked by someone else. I like it even more when they show their pleasure by buying a print. This shot taken on the ramp at Reno one early morning of the F4U Corsair is a very popular print order. The latest order though required a little more, as in 63×42″ more! I had no doubt the information was there in the file to make it happen, the question was, what was the best way to size the file up. Ever since CS3, I’ve relied on Photoshop to res up my files since I rarely go beyond the size of the Epson 7900. This print was going in a hangar and bigger was better. I knew I needed more then CS5 to res it up so instantly thought of Genuine Fractal. And lucky for me, it has been updates and is now Perfect Resize 7 and it rocks!
It’s pretty darn simple. Knowing I was going to print with a Epson 9900 on roll paper, I sized the print to 42″ and Perfect Resize 7 scaled it. Note I have Constrain Proportions only checked. There are a whole bunch of more cool options I didn’t need this time, one of them I want to call your attention to is Canvas Wrap. If you’re into that, this IS THE tool! I played with it just to see it and it’s cool! In the process of sizing up, you can also sharpen the file.
It does an amazing job! Running the Dell m6500 with 64bit & 12GB of memory, it took just under 24min to size up a 465MB file up to 1.92GB. The reason the original file is so large are all the layers. The reason I didn’t flatten it is because Perfect Resize 7 doesn’t require you to flatten and I just wanted to see if it works. And it does! And the final print, the client & I were very pleased with the end result and another order was placed. You can’t ask more from a Photoshop pluggin if you ask me. So if you’re in resize hell or you’re going really big, Perfect Resize 7 is the ticket!
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My beautiful bride knows me all too well, getting me for xmas the perfect toy tool that I needed. With our Air2Air Workshop and other aviation projects, I needed a means to talk with the pilots when not hooked directly to the planes intercom. So under the tree was a Icom IC-A6, not your basic photographic piece of gear. With a simple accessory, I can communicate through my David Clark headset, pretty slick. And when using ForeFlight on the iPad, I have the information I need to listen to tower to aircraft communications. This app provides everything from a phone number to the airport manager to frequency numbers for radio communications. This is helpful for lots of reasons, a simple one is being in place at the right time. Whenever I get a new toy tool, before crunch time, I take it into the field and test it. That’s what Jake and I did this eveny thing (plus we wanted to keep our panning skills sharp.
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As you can see, we even have a bit of snow on the flats where our airport is located. And it was cold, hovering around zero when we there shooting. The Icom served as well hearing when the plane was on final, five miles up and then on approach giving us the luxury of staying in the warmth of the truck and getting out in time to photograph a King Air coming in and our regional flight from San Francisco coming in. The combination of the Icom and ForeFlight in this first outing worked perfectly!
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Did you receive new gear for Christmas? I hope you did! I also hope you’ve done more then just take it out of the box. Whatever the new toy tool happens to be, get out and run it through its paces now! Find out how it works, how it syncs with you and your photography and start before it’s crunch time to employ its strengths. This is how you make the most of that new tool and when the time comes, it works its magic for you!
Photos captured by D3x, 200-400VR2 on Lexar UDMA digital film