One Mile Beach, Forster, NSW Photos

Just one of the beautiful photos I shot when away on the Mid North Coast of NSW. I knew this was going to be a special series of photos, as I took a few shots on the 5D MkII before the sun breached the horizon and they came out great but you just cant beat a perfectly exposed 617 transparency.

Shot on the Fuji GX617 | Velvia 50 slide film.

This shot now lives in the Mid North Coast, NSW Gallery on the Matt Lauder website.

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New Photoshop Tutorial – Bypass Adobe Camera RAW when batch processing RAW files.

A problem encounted when batch processing RAW files with an action you have created in Photoshop through Adobe Bridge is the programs need to open every file in Adobe Camera RAW first. After that it will then run the action and prompt you again to process the next file in ACR.

This totally defeats the purpose of the batch process to simplify the time consuming process of editing bulk RAW images at once. In this tutorial we show you how to create the right action and then to process all your selected RAW files using your action and totally avoiding the ACR prompt.

Might sound tricky but its very easy.

This tutorials can be found in the “Tips and Tricks” section of the site. It is a members only tutorial. Click here to be taken to the tutorial.

The new Matt Lauder Gallery facebook “like” page

Hi all,

Just letting you know that I have finally set up my own Matt Lauder Gallery “like” page on facebook.

I’ll be posting on there frequently with info of what I am up to, images, projects, exhibitions etc.

The link is here for those interested in checking it out.

I just added on there a digital image of The Skillion that I re worked last night. Came up a treat and also a digital panoramic I took of Coogee last month when the beach was packed on a roasting hot weekend.

Still here… just busy

Hi All,

It’s been a while since I have posted anything. Just letting you know that I am still here and am working hard on quite a few new ventures for 2011. The main one at the moment is relocating my whole base of operations from a small site office to a 100sqm commercial premises next week for the expansion of my business this year.

I got quite a few exciting things to release, including pics of the new place as it comes together and gets fitted out.

Stay tuned I will post something of more substance soon.

Happy Shooting.

Freshwater Beach Aerial Shot Northern Beaches, Sydney

An aerial shot from the 5D MkII overlooking Freshwater Beach. I much prefer the colour quality of the light in the digital over the film at this time of day. Good learning experience though. Next time will use a different film.

Camera Food

The other day I took delivery of my bulk order of Velvia 50 slide film from the US.

1 Brick and 5 rolls. (125 rolls all together).

With my gear this is equal to: 500 shots on my 617′s or 375 shots on my 624 or 1500 shots on the blad. Should keep me busy for a little while. But I will be ordering more next month.

Aussie Dollar hits $1.0003 US dollars

At 23.13 yesterday (15th October 2010) for the first time since 1982 the Aussie dollar was worth more than the US dollar at $1.0003. But closed at 98.84 cents.

So I jumped onto the B&H website and ordered myself 25 pro packs of Velvia 50. (125 rolls should do me for a while) but our dollar is predicted to maybe hit $1.05 US so I might be pulling the frozen meat and chicken out of the chest freezer and filling it with something much more delightful over the coming months.

New Tutorial – Organise and Catalogue Your Images

This tutorial was done on request by a Rubbing Pixels Member wanting to know how I go about organising and cataloging the images I take on both digital and film, how I go about assigning codes to those shots for reference, do I keep RAW files if they have been converted to DNG’s and more. So here it is.

Like any system and method I will also discuss areas of improvement in this workflow that will make image identification easier for people who are just starting out should keep in mind.

This tutorials goes for 8 min and can be found in the “Tips and Tricks” section of the Rubbing Pixels website and is available for Members Only.

Woy Woy Stacked Star Trail

Well headed out last night with a simple thought in mind and that was to test stacking star trail images in photoshop, a technique that limits long exposure noise while still getting the benefit of spinning stars. So this shot even though it is nothing special is a simple stack of 8 shots at 2.5 min. Parts of the boat are pretty yellow from the sodium lights nearby.

Depending on the weather I will be shooting star trail shots pretty hard this week and over the coming weekend to put this really into effect and I feel a tutorial on it all coming on as well

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Hasselblad 500CM with 40mm distagon lens – On it’s way

Well its all done my Hasselblad 500CM with the 40mm wide angle distagon F4 lens is on it’s way. The 40mm lens has an 88 degree angle of view, its awesome. Quite expensive for a second hand lens but its worth it.

It will make a nice addition to my growing collection of photographic toys.