Some recent listener feedback
Firstly let me start with reference to something that Bruce had mentioned, I think in episode 137.
You were quite concerned with the audio quality that you were able to present to listeners from the portable recorder used at Echuca, the audio on that episode was fine.
I have recently dabbled with other podcasts, and have since canceled all of the downloads except Shutters Inc.
Bruce the quality of the audio delivered by you leaves all others far behind, keep up the good work.
Thanks for the great pod casts not only in the information passed on but also the technical quality.
Mark Chapman
I know you have a core group of listeners who comment regularly, but
the rest of us are out here listing to the show and even though we
don't correspond with you regularly, don't think we don't appreciate
all of the time and effort you two put into the program.
Love the Show, Keep up the great work!
John
Bruce, thank you for putting together such a great podcast.
In fact the sound quality is better than some of the daytime radio shows that I hear.
I know putting a show of this caliber is not a simple task, however I must say that other podcast don't have anything on this one.
Also thank you for asking Shelton those spontaneous questions that keep him alert during the podcast.
Sometimes you ask him the exact same question that I would of ask of him and the great thing about this interaction is that I get my answer in almost "Real Time".
Again thank you for the heads up and for giving so much to our photographic community.
Carlos Rivera
Great job with the wedding series guys!
I knew when I asked Shelton about wedding shoots, as I had one coming up, he would deliver the goods.
I had no idea, however, it would result in such a great series of episodes, offering priceless information.
Typical of "the Guru Tigger Muller", the listeners are getting a veritable GOLD MINE of practical tips.
More importantly, I'm confident the listeners (as I am) really appreciate how you are giving us those extra little 'secrects' that we would rarely get from any other pro--I am seriously grateful.
I also wanted to thanks Bruce for his very timely and appropriate questions he often presents to Shelton.
A lot of co-hosts get in the habit of no-substance "filler" questions, just to keep the conversation rolling (beware of dead air!!), but this does not describe you Bruce.
I often feel that you are representing me, the common joe, in your questions.
You, my friend, are definitely an integral part of not only the production of the show, but also its content.
Once again, keep it up, the show started at a high level of quality right from episode one and you have both more than brought your "A game" for every one!
Canada loves Shutters Inc.!
Walt
I just wanted to drop you a note to say thank you and well done on your recent wedding podcast series.
I'm not quite to the place yet that I would want to try a wedding, but everything you talked about was very well thought out and inspirational.
I'm a portrait photographer by nature and a lot of what you said makes sense for that as well.
I can tell by how you spoke about your wedding process that you truly do enjoy it and I'm sure it comes out in the final product as well.
Very well done and thanks for taking the time to put these last couple of episodes together.
As always, keep up the great shows.
Very inspirational to all of us.
Phil Peck
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August 29, 2010
This week, Bruce is flying solo.
Just a couple of quick things to cover…
How I landed the Outback NSW Tourism gig,
This week’s Sydney Meetup #8 (the film noir shoot),
Day 1 of Visible Light,
and the interesting research being done at Microsoft (of all places) to remove camera-shake from your mobile phone pics.
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August 15, 2010
This week, we give you 50% more!
Phillip Andrews (professional photographer, Better Photoshop Techniques magazine publisher, and Adobe Ambassador) joins us for a chat about:
the differences between Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3,
his new Photoshop CS5 Essential Skills book, which SI listeners can buy at a 20% discount using the code ‘pa123′,
the Visible Light seminars touring Australia over the coming months,
and the new Photoshop CS5 custom panel which SI listeners can download for free using the code ‘freepanel’.
Then, Phillip and Shelton go into a discussion about getting it right in camera,
and we round out the episode with a brief mention of Bruce’s recent good news (more detail next episode).
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August 1, 2010
This week, we answer some listener e-mail regarding dynamic range, lighting up water skiers, and getting out of a ‘photographic flat spot’.
Plus, Shelton goes into some more detail on how to shoot in the film noir genre.
Check out the wiki article for more info on film noir.
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July 25, 2010
Finally!
We’re back!
We wind back the clock to just after our last podcast and start wading through the events which have transpired:
Bruce’s car crash,
South Africa and the World Cup (Shelton’s posts: one, two and three),
Shelton’s trip to Nevada and California (where models don’t show up, either, apparently!),
Shelton’s back pain,
the Film Noir shoots that CPW has run in Melbourne recently,
Bruce and Max’s roadtrip (Facebook photos here),
how photography opens up life experiences that you might not otherwise have encountered,
Nathan’s interstate wedding,
a “roadtrip workshop” in CPW’s future perhaps?,
Sydney meetup #7 scheduled for Sunday August 1st (details on Facebook),
and remember, we now have an e-mail address that will reach BOTH of us! Woohoo!
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June 20, 2010
With Shelton still in South Africa covering the World Cup, and with Adobe having just released Lightroom 3 out into the wild, I thought it might be a good time to get Philip Andrews back on the line for a chat.
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June 7, 2010
This week, we catch up with just some of the vendors from the PMA Digital Life Expo in Melbourne.
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Ben Halcomb
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Tim Gledhill
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Lil Jolly
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Vicky Singh
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Frank Hokestra
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Lisa Forrest
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Matt Dole
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Chris McLeod
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Bill Baird
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Chris Moore
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Nick Segger
 - 0:41:10
Professor Des Crawley
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John Swainston
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Phillip Andrews
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Clyde Rodrigues
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Robert Gatto
 - 1:12:57
Lindsay Merritt
 - 1:17:05
Joshua Velling
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Lee Jefferies
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May 30, 2010
This week, Paul Curtis from the Photo Marketing Accosication pops in for a chat prior to the Digital Life Expo, which will be held in Melbourne the weekend of 5-6 June, 2010.
Some of the things to see will be:
3D devies,
the iPad,
the CPW stand,
the photo judging and gallery.
Also, remember that if you pre-register here, you’ll save yourself the $20 entry fee!
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May 23, 2010
This week, Shutters Inc will cure your insomnia,
Shelton and Glynn have been busy with workshops,
the Rob Guest Endowment competition,
Kodak announces it officially that Shelton will be shooting the World Cup soccer in South Africa,
Shelton loves his Flashwave triggers,
and 7 tips to using your tripod, courtesy of the digital photography school blog.
Also, we now have a common e-mail address for both Shelton and Bruce.
Send all e-mail here.
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May 16, 2010
This week, Shelton talks about the week-long workshop that CPW recently conducted in New Zealand,
we talk some more about the histogram,
Sydney meetup #4,
discuss the meaning of “chromatic aberration”,
have a laugh at the guy who didn’t really know what SI was all about,
celebrate Nathan Muller’s fantastic achievement,
discuss a couple of old movies, Tron and The Red Violin ,
talk about the upcoming PMA trade show in Melbourne,
dinner in Melbourne,
photo judging,
copyright issues (Shelton mentions an article in better photography magazine),
and Bruce shares his thoughts on photographing dogs.
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May 2, 2010
This week, we’re joined by professional photographer, Adobe Ambassador (Photoshop, Lightroom), Co-Editor of Better Photoshop Techniques magazine, and internationally published author, Phillip Andrews.
Phil pops in for a chat about Adobe’s Creative Suite 5, and some of the new features of Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3 and Adobe Camera Raw 6.
Plus he mentioned these crazy guys who strap a DSLR/video camera to a remote control helicopter!
Want a 40% discount on a subscription to either Better Photoshop Techniques magazine, or to the Photoshop Elements website?
Trust me… ya do!
Head over to either site, place your order, and enter the promo code ‘siplistener’ at check out for a 40% discount!
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April 25, 2010
This week, on the eve of Shelton and company flying off to Noo Zooland,
we announce the winner of the Wacom competition,
Richard Annable explains how not only lenses see things differently, but cameras do too,
can you trust your on-camera LCD?,
Jason Paige gave us some info about the RAW linear/logarithmic question from last episode (from the book Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS5 by Bruce Frasier and Jeff Schewe),
and Greg Anderson sent us a wrap up of what he experienced at last month’s NAB trade show in Las Vegas.
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Erin King’s winning entry…
Erin’s retouch notes:
“Hi guys, here’s my entry. All worked with the mouse!
What I did to get the result…
1 – Got rid of the purple aberration in the eyes because it offended me.
2 – Copied the image onto a new layer and performed some serious
anti-wrinkle/shadows/pore reduction skin surgery using a mixture of the
healing and patch tools and the cloning tool. I liked the laugh lines
around her eyes so didn’t play with those much at all. I called this my
surgery layer.
3 – On a new layer I selected a colour that was close to the median skin
tone and, on a very low opacity/flow, painted over the T-zone areas on
her forehead with the brush tool just to dull the shine a bit and then
merged that with my surgery layer.
I thought she looked pretty good after that. Could have left it there
but didn’t (because I am the PS junkie). I wanted to even out her skin
tone a bit more so…
4 – I selected her skin by going to Select – Select Colour and used the
plus (+) eyedropper tool on different parts of her face until just about
all of her skin was selected (ie, white).
5 – I copied this selection onto a new layer and then deleted all the
unnecessary parts like her arms, her sons (?) face, her eyes and
eyebrows, hair, etc, until just the mask of her face was on the layer.
I then duplicated this layer and hid the duplication for the time being.
6 – I then blurred the first skin layer using the Surface Blur filter,
boosting the blur settings until the skin tone was fairly even across
the face. I hit ok with that filter and then pulled the opacity down on
that blurred layer so it wasn’t so extreme.
7 – With the duplicated skin layer, I ran the High Pass filter to bring
back some of the contrast, pores and natural shadows to the face. I set
this layer to Soft Light blend mode and then I played with the opacity
until it wasn’t as extreme and the skin texture was even (to my eye).
8 – I duplicated the surgery layer and merged that with the soften and
highpass layers so it was all the same layer.
So by this stage I had three layers; the original untouched layer, my
surgery layer and my soften/highpass layer. Could have left it there
but considering the model is a mature-aged woman, and I’d virtually
wiped out all signs of life experience from her face, I decided to pull
the effect back a fair bit. Had she been much younger, I would have
called it finished at this point and moved onto the general image
retouching…
9 – I pulled the opacity of the soften/highpass layer down to about 70%
and disabled the surgery layer altogether.
As a result, the wrinkles and shadows have been significantly softened
but not erased completely, the skin texture still exists and she looks
like the lovely mature woman that she is without looking “aged” and
haggard (by comparision with the original photo).
The last few effects I added was boosting overall colour and lightness,
sharpness and definition and adding the dreaded vignette.
Not sure if you needed all that but thought I’d include it anyway.
Happy to send the PSD files if you’re curious.
Cheers,
Erin”
and Jason Paige’s infamous effort…
Jason’s retouch notes:
“I have been trying to master the art of retouching for a few years now. I have been contemplating buying one of these tablets hoping that it will help with the results.
You will see from my submission that my retouching needs as much help as I can possibly get.
The more I seem to retouch things the worse they seem to become.
However I do think this makes for a great family photo.
Jason Paige”
See these, along with the rest of the submissions here.
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April 18, 2010
This week, Bruce’s holiday, in which I played with some more off-camera flash,
DIY lighting,
Shelton discovers the benefits of blogging, with Kodak asking him to travel to South Africa to shoot/video/blog the World Cup,
Richard Annable alerts us to the potential dangers of beta software,
the Adobe CS5 launch,
content-aware fill in Photoshop CS5,
creating your own presets (rather than using those that ship with your software),
exposing to the left/right of the histogram,
the season finale of House shot entirely on a Canon 5D mk11,
and your last chance to have a crack at the photo retouching competition in order to win yourself a Wacom Intuos 4 graphics tablet!
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April 4, 2010
This week, want to win yourself the Wacom Intuos 4 graphics tablet? Details at the end of this post.
The kill date for Lightroom 3 Beta 2 is officially June 30, 2010.
Erin King loves her old graphics tablet,
Mark Loader chimed in with his thoughts on 3rd party lenses, to which Shelton agreed,
Ray Medina reminds us that the Gigapan pano robot goes on sale this month according to Engadget,
Bruce’s impromptu shoot for ARN Solutions,
dealing with spur-of-the-moment stuff,
Sydney meetup #3 (the tram shed shoot)… facebook pics here, blog post coming soon,
Shelton’s shoot with Sophie in a boxing ring,
models and their “look”,
Shelton’s wedding photography DVD on sale now through CPW,
and Flashwave triggers!
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OK, so you want to know how you could win the Wacom Intuos 4 graphics tablet, huh?
Grab yourself this image (9MB, RAW) (36MB, TIF) and retouch it to the best of your ability.
A couple of rules:
a) You must only use your mouse. If you currently own a tablet, you must not use it for this competition. We’re relying on your honesty in this respect.
b) No cropping. Retouch only.
Once you’ve retouched it, resize it to 500 pixels WIDE, and resample to 72 dpi.
Once you’ve done that, send it here.
Shelton and Bruce will judge the entries received.
Deadline to submit an entry is midday (AEST) Monday 19th April, 2010.
Winner will be announced in the next podcast produced after 19th April.
Good luck!
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March 28, 2010
This week, Bruce speaks with Leo and Linda from Wacom Australia about the range of Wacom Intuos graphics tablets, and why every photographer can benefit from one.
Then, Shelton talks about HIS perceptions of a graphics tablet,
we talk about the CPW Advanced Flash Workshop in Melbourne,
working with light modifiers like the Honl grids and snoots,
Bruce is inspired by one of Joe McNally’s quotes,
Lightroom 3 Beta 2 is out now*,
plus we need YOUR help to giveaway a Wacom Intuos 4 graphics tablet.
* After recording, I found out that no, LR3B2 does NOT import LR2 catalogues.
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March 21, 2010
Hi all,
I’ve just returned from a weekend trip to Melbourne to attend Shelton’s Advanced Flash Workshop.
The plan was that after the workshop, we were going to sit down for a chat via a Zoom field recorder.
Two events brought that idea undone.
1. Some ‘guru’ (who we won’t name) forgot to bring the field recorder, and
2. We were all so shattered by the time we finished shooting (an hour and half after the scheduled wrap time!).
I dare say that had we had the recorder, we’d have been too mentally wasted to concoct anything remotely listenable anyway!
So, I’m sure we’ll talk about the workshop in next week’s episode!
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