Landscape Canvas and Printing Service, Sydney, Newcastle and Central Coast

This is a quick video I put together of the equipment I use to print and coat my canvas. Currently printing using the Epson 9800. Looking to upgrade to the 9900 soon and the most critical piece of equipment is the Falcon F60 laminator that applies using heat and pressure an ultra strong, UV protective, gloss or matt coating to the canvas. This process cant even be compared to the messy, non durable roll on or spray coating that is used by most in the industry. You can rub a screw drive on the laminate and you wont scratch through it. The laminate isn’t cheap nor is the laminator but the final perfect application and durability for customers is worth the extra cost.

In 2012 I will be offering my canvas printing to photographers and the general public and the pricing will be ultra competitive with others in the market who are offering spray lamination.

Even photographers who can print their own canvas I will be offering a lamination service.

Will post more details in the coming month as my site gets geared to accept online image uploads and orders.

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Soldiers Beach Capture and Edit Video Tutorial

In this masterclass I have divided it up in two sections. First I discuss the thought processes and techniques that goes into creative water movement capture. The use of shutters speeds, iso, aperture for full DOF, focus point and filters used to get that perfect shutter speed without making other elements of your image suffer as a result.

Now that I have the shot and you understand how it was taken the two selected images are processed in Camera RAW and blended together in Photoshop to get our water perfect. Further Photoshop editing is done to the image to keep it looking natural but to also slightly enhance certain elements of the image.

This tutorial is available on the Rubbing Pixels website. Free to members, but can be purchased for $9.99. This is the link to the tutorial.

Uluru Video

A quick video that I just put together of some footage I took while shooting at Ayres Rock in November. The camera work is a bit rough (to say the least) but I did what I could while trying to shoot with my 6×17 and Canon at the same time. An extra hand or two would have been…. handy 🙂

To view larger click here.

Retaining the colour online

The example’s below are of the image used in the video one saved in Adobe RGB and the other saved in the sRGB colour space.

See the difference…. Hope this helps you get the most from your images on the web.

Note: This is for the web only, dont change your master images to sRGB as you will be deleting colour information that you cant get back. Someone described it as peeling an apple if you change an image to sRGB you cant unpeel it back to Adobe RGB… keep sRGB for web images only.

Best original capture

My first video post which I have titled “best original capture” shows you a transparency scanned on my Imacon 343 just to indicate the quality of an original capture on Velvia slide film without any processing in Photoshop.

To view the image on my site just click on the link view image

After previewing the movie I thought to myself…. Gee do I really sound like that. I thought I sounded way cooler… oh well.