Posts Tagged photoshop

Color it right: color calibration with the spyder 3 pro

Spyder 3 Pro attached to monitor during calibration

Spyder 3 Pro attached to monitor during calibration

Ensuring that color remains consistent across display devices and printers is a definite must for anyone who takes photography and compositing work seriously.

For the past five months I’ve been using a Spyder 3 Pro to calibrate four monitors connected to my Hack Pro system.

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How to have fun with two strobes, a camera and a Harley

My friend Husam got himself a Harley, I got myself a camera, a couple of strobes and a light diffuser that seems to have been a shower cap in a previous life.

I’ve been fiddling around with a hybrid photography/graphic style that’s often referred to as hyper-realism.

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Happy to have met you

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In the garden of life we met
Hello, we said

In a summer of love we came
set aflame we were

In the garden of life
love we found

Happy, happy together
happy to have
met each other

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Original image (19/03/2007, Bahrain):

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Camera: Sony Alpha 100 DSLR

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Nocturnal keyboard frog

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I’ve had a frog lying on my desk for ages. I don’t mind it. It’s harmless and only moves when you move it (it’s plastic.) The toy frog is orange actually, but I thought it looked cooler in green.

Original image:

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Now for the David Attenborough bit:

For many years zoologists have debated the existence of a particular frog belonging to the genus Hyla.

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A place called Wunderistan

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What better way to pass a lazy Friday afternoon than Photoshopping some old travel photos? The basis for the image above is a snap I took while crossing from Dubai to the Omani border a couple of years ago. The cars, falconer, camels, jets, coffee stain, grocery list and note scribble, folds and other effects are all Photoshop magic!

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