Published: January 18th, 2008
Duration: 48:12
Episode 07 - Monarch Dunes Golf Course
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Craig: Your shot of the course with the super sunset and the idea of stretching the green to balance the patterns across the image is par for any Tanner course. I, for one, am appreciative of you sharing the altered and unaltered images, as it provides a sense of what is possible beyond mere documentation. It has given me an understanding of color and composition on an entirely different level. I jokingly say that one should walk around with a 14mm full-frame lens in of one's face for a week to see how different the world can be perceived. After that, almost anything seems acceptable.
Rick
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Craig,
Nice job on the golf course vidcast! It is amazing the differnces between the photos you started with and the images you ended up with. Wonderful post processing! I would be surprised if 10% of developers or anyone trying to sell a product gives a hoot about photography as long as the results SELL the product. So I think you are safe with your mystery beliefs which I always call good or bad luck. It does appear that the more prepared one is the luckier they become :0) I do care about photograhy and really appreciate it when someone successful like you are willing to share the guts of their processes with others. Thank you and I hope you get over your cold real soon!!
Murry
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Craig:
Flat-out outstanding vidcast! And I loved the info on using a boom lift. It has me thinking about some of the local marshes that just do not photograph well from flat ground or truck-top positioning. That aside, the photography itself is lovely from both a craft and impact point of view. And, (sotto voice), I agree with the mysteries that can guide what we see and how we see it as well as attach itself to the end product.
Finally, your insight into using scaling as a means of improving visual balance is a great tool…one I will use in the future.
Pat
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Great vidcast Craig. The light diary is my favourite section of the site. I love hearing the background to each image, it inspires me to take more photos.
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Hi Everybody,
Thank you for the kind words about the Vidcast.... the feedback is deeply appreciated!!!...Craig
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Great work as always!
Get well soon!
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Hi Craig, I was really happy to return to Light Diary today to find your new Vidcasts. Having just watched them both I wanted to add my thanks and heartfelt appreciation for an inspirational and enlightening afternoon.
Alex
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Thanks for a very informative vidcast, Craig. You really are dedicated to seeing your vision through and here you show again your amazing skill with Photoshop! If I were your client, I would be very pleased with your results. Thanks for giving us some behind-the-scenes looks at what's involved with advertising landscape photography.
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Hi Alex and Ashley,
Thank you so much for sharing your images (on the DC) and your for your kind words of support and for being an extremely important part of what makes this community live and expand....Craig
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Craig, Thank you so very much for sharing your time, your philosophy and your photography! I learn so very much from you on both the Light Diary and the Daily Critique and I can imagine how difficult it is to keep up the pace that you are going, especially when you don't feel well. I want to tell you that your words on the Light Diary Episode 7 have really given me a huge lift as I have been dealing with a difficult and unsolvable very long-term family issue. You have inspired me to STOP obsessing about something that I can't change and to turn on some inspiring music, get busy with learning to be a better photographer and MOVE ON. Part of my solution is to put a block on my phone and look AHEAD rather than back. I know that you were talking primarily about photography, but your philosophy can be applied to most of life! Thank you again! And I hope that your cold/flu is gone now!
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Craig: New to your Diary so this is a topic likely to have been addressed before. Other than using a poarizing filter (can't be duplicated in PS) is there a significant advantage to using say, split ND filters, warming filters and the like in the field as opposed to using say, Nik Color Efx (or similar) in post processing?
Thank you - Joel Zak
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Craig, thanks for this video, it was fascinating and provided a great deal of insight into the process of producing a commercial shoot. It was great to know about dropping in flagstick from a "library"; I had suspected that most of the flagsticks I see in advertisements were added in. How do you make a selection of the flagstick, which is only about 1 pixel wide or so?
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Hi Dave,
Thank you for being here. Great question.... my initial selection from the host image is a rough selection that I make with the marquee tool.... so in other words I select the flag with a section of green around it. I then color balance the selection so that the green around the new flag stick will match the green in the work in progress image. Once the greens match in color it just means that using the mask to make my final selection which usually leads to a much more realistic blend or composite... Hope this makes sense and helps.....Craig
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Hi Joel,
Great question about the filters. The answer to your question is that it depends on the quality of light and specifically just how much contrast there is from the brightest area in the scene to the darkest area. The short answer is that I find a huge benefit in using Split NDS. One of my new most prized filters is Singh-Ray's oversized (4" x 6") 4 stop soft step Split ND. I find that this beautifully balances out split light in all kinds of scenes and saves me a ton of grief in Photoshop. When I am shooting from a lift it never quits moving so in can be a pain some times to get things to match up if I am having to use multiple frames. Another huge potential pitfall of just bracketing different frames is that clouds and other parts of the scene can be very dynamic and move quickly. Being able to work with just one frame makes my life so much easier. I am going to be talking about this more and more and I am in the process of producing a whole DVD on using filters that will include lots of in the field footage and my post processing on these images as well. Look for it to come out this summer....Craig
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