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| Posted by: photoblog |
10/25/2007 9:50 AM |
If you've been reading our missives here, Jannet pointed to my photo gallery of Princess Diana Dresses. She provided this link directly to it. http://ocala.com/assets/flash/new_galleryX2_8b.swf
I'm really proud of this but it wound up being more of a project then I had planned. We couldn't
use the images the museum already had of the dresses because of
licensing problems. I had to shoot all 30 dresses during the two hour press
preview. They were all behind glass in dimly lit exhibit salons.
Available light, even with a polarizer, was out. I set an off camera
strobe to one side of each dress hoping to minimize the glare. With
some help from our multimedia tech, we cut out and touched up every
dress and put them on a background I created in photoshop. Yes, kids,
it's never as easy as it looks on TV.
Oh, the fine print on that.
I do need to point out here that we do NOT do this with all photos. News photos you see in our publications are true journalism and accurate representations of actual events.
Our business is changing because we need to bring you the journalism you want the way you want it. Looking around Ocala.com lately you'll notice a lot more multimedia, video, slide shows, etc. Everyone is shooting video, Photographers, reporters and Multimedia editor Doug Engle virtually all video. As you might have figured out I love technology. Mostly out of necessity. Without knowing something about technology, you can't take tell the stories you want to tell.
Anyway, with all this video going on, whose shooting still images for the paper. Well, photographers still are. We are using High Definition video cameras and pulling still frames from the video for the paper in some instances. It will be a while before we completely put our still cameras away for good though. HD video still can't handle night sports, bad light (and so much of what we do is in bad light) but for lots of things this works fine.
From our dumb criminal story from the other day, this image is a frame grab -
- - Alan Youngblood, Photo Editor |
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