I’m excited to show you my new website intro video! It gives a little insight into how I approach shoots and what I enjoy the most about my work:
WPPI Wrap-Up
February 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I had a great time at WPPI this year. Hung out a lot with old friends, met some new ones, did a little networking, and managed not to completely lose my shirt on the Blazing 7s machine (the trick is to find the machines that haven’t hit their progressive jackpot in a while).
If you made it out this year and attended my master class, thank you! The class was split between location lighting and shooting/creating composites. Here are a couple of shots taken by my good friend (and excellent photographer), Christian Sangree:
Heyyyyyy Macarana:
Announcing some PS actions!
February 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I’m excited to announce that I’m making my luminosity mask action set available at KillTheAmbient.com for everyone. What’s a luminosity mask, you say? It’s a way to select parts of an image based on brightness. For example, you might want to darken the deepest shadows of your image a little more. Or, you might want to warm just the highlights of your image. This action set will do it. With it, you can select 5 brightness ranges including Super Darks, Darks, Midtones, Lights, and Super Lights. Once selected, use the included color toning actions (or any of your own actions) to enhance your image.
I use these on my images, because I don’t want the heavy-handed approach of adjusting the entire image at once. You could do similar work with curves, but it’s a lot easier having Photoshop select the tonal values for you!
The Luminosity Mask action set features 11 luminosity mask actions + 4 color toning actions. This action set is available for immediate download. To get an idea of what you can do with it, check out the video below!
If you’d like to purchase the action, just click here to head to the store. The price for the action set is $59, but if you enter your email where requested on the store page, I’ll send you a discount code which will get the price down to $45. The discount code is good until Monday, February 21st.
WPPI Is Almost Here
February 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I am pretty excited as WPPI is right around the corner! My presentation is almost complete. I’ll be talking about shoot planning, location lighting, post production in Photoshop, plus tools and techniques for composite work. We’ll also have some coupons/giveaways from Triple Scoop Music, Totally Rad Actions, White House Custom Color, and Asukabook. I’m looking forward to a fun two hours!
If you plan on attending WPPI this year and would like to say hello, catch me on twitter at @ericdoggett. For you Austin photogs, we’ll be doing a breakfast on one of the days as well.
I’ll be having a small product announcement before WPPI starts, so be sure to check back before then!
Aperture drops to $79 online
January 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Today, Apple launched their new Mac desktop App Store. Think of it as a way to buy apps for your home computer. One interesting development is that Aperture is only $79 when purchased through this store. This is a big savings over the $199 in-store/physical box purchase price. I can’t see any particular downside to purchasing it through the App Store, except that purchases are tied to your iTunes account. So, if you have multiple machines, you might have to login with your iTunes account on them to download the app.
I’m more of a Lightroom person myself, although at $79 it does make it worth playing with the trial. To get started, just update your Mac to 10.6.6 via Software Update, and you’ll see the new App Store icon in your dock.
WPPI 2011 MasterClass Registration Is Open
November 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Registration for WPPI 2011 opened today. If you are interested in my lighting/compositing masterclass, be sure to check out their site as registration for these separate classes usually fills up quickly. Each class is limited to 35 students and goes for $50. Registration is here.
Take a look at all the great classes, including an awesome video marketing class by my good friend Dustin Meyer.
