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Adam Backer-First e-book

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e-book|Through the Mind

I’m extremely happy to report that the Photography e-book that Adam Backer has been working so hard on over the last few months will be live soon on my blog. Adam Backer is an Abu Dhabi Based Self Taught Photographer where his field of interest includes Landscapes, Portraits, Macros and Still Life photography.

This e-book dedicated entirely to Photography. It’s call (appropriately enough) Through the Mind.

Here’s a few screen captures from the magazine itself.

Front Page

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Middle Page

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LastPage

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How much? Frequency? And Where To Get It?
This e-book is free to download. (The download link will be available here on 24th of May 2012.) If you’re as passionate about photography  then I really do hope you’ll check out this ebook from Adam.

For Low Resolution ebook click the above Download Button

Right Click and Save as the link for High Resolution Download

For IPAD/IPhone-ePub Version

You can get in touch with him via his blog http://adambacker.blogspot.ae/ or facebook

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Vineet Suthan is a part yime Freelance Photographer based in Dubai. He Specializes in HDR, Fashion, Beauty, Interiors, Maternity and Corporate Shoots. He is also author of Vineet-Suthan.com/photoblog.

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Maternity Photography-Final Series

Maternity 29

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Maternity Photography

This is my last series of the Maternity shoot. There is not much to say about this picture expect that it turned out well and much more that expected for the client. We had initially planned to have a different background color and a setup like home evironment. But due to time limitations, we had to go to Plan B;)

Waveapp-Online Invoice

I always have a template in MS word to invoice my client. This time however, i decided to try the free online site called the waveapp. This is the link for photographers.Currently the company is offering all of its service for free including accounting and payroll as well. I loved its interface and it gels well with my existing template. Another service that is competing with waveapp is the one from Zoho which is also free. ( Zoho has paid services has well but if you are happy with the free version, then you can stick on to it. You can link both of these to online payment services like paypal and 2checkout. You can export the saved file as PDF and send it to your client. Now you can keep record of all of your clients with this simple application.

New Personal Experimental Project

I am in the process of doing a personal project for fashion. Its rather a small self budgeted project. What is this all about? What i am shooting is replicating a style by one of the fashion photographer i am inspired and see how well i can create it in terms of lighting, styling and post processing. This will help me understand more of how photography project can be executed. For this i might look into people who can help me with lighting setup and doing a Behind the Scene Shoot. All the shoot will be done outdoor,during evening hours and only during weekends. Those interested can email me by using the contact me via the Home page.

 

Lighting Diagram

For the lighting, i knew i had to use the Big Softboxes (Profoto 6×4-click to purchase from Adorama) to light the model and the dress. The reason for choosing big soft box is i had to light the dress evenly and only a big softbox i can think of. The small softbox were light from Visico Lights and used mainly for the background lights. Why mixed light well, the studio only had only these ones (lets not go in for color consistency for this matter) . Here for this shots, the background lights were reduced and kept it a lower level than the front lights as we did not want a pure white nor too dark images. The models was around 1.5 to 2 meter away from the wall. One model was just behind another a little bit.

Post Processing:

Camera Raw-Basic Adjustment like Contrast,  Clarity, Hue and Saturation and Chromatic Aberration

Adobe Photoshop Cs6-Retouching Floors and Skin.  Basic Color Toning.

The Skin retouching was one using Imagenomic Portraiture. This plugin saves a lot of time when you have around 50 shots to retouch.

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Vineet Suthan is a part yime Freelance Photographer based in Dubai. He Specializes in HDR, Fashion, Beauty, Interiors, Maternity and Corporate Shoots. He is also author of Vineet-Suthan.com/photoblog.

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Lightroom Presets

 

I only work in light room only for my personal shoots. That includes pictures of my family and few landscapes usually taken with Fuji E1 and  Nikon D3s.  My photographs were lot and editing them took lot of time to edit in photoshop. I wanted to find a way to save time.  I began creating presets (preset alterations to lighting and coloring) to speed up my workflow and to be more efficient. My goal is to save others time so that they can balance their time with their families and their long term work goals.

You May ask when there are other 3rd Party Plugins from Nik Software, Topaz Adjust and Onone Perfect effect why use this? Well there are many who dont use these 3rd party plugins as they cannot afford to buy it  or create one so I did the work for them.Taking about these presets, these work well with portraits and landscape. I would suggest you try different pictures for these effects as they will look different on each shots.

My recommendation though is to use a 3rd party filter but for those who cannot afford to get one, here are my first series in the free version. Please note that i have tested these presets only for Light room Version 4 and above. Let me know if it works in lower versions also. If you provide me the pictures that you applied these filter, i would gladly put them in the review section. Your reviews will help me develop more presets.

Kindly share this link to others.

There’s actually 5 of them.

1. VS-BW-Rustic

2. VS-Details

3. VS-High Contrast

4. VS-Brown Tint

5. VS-No Light

Samples

Here is few samples for the presets

VS-BW-Rustic

VS-BW-High Contrast

VS-BW-Details

VS-BW-Brown Tint

VS-BW-No Light

Download

You can download the presets below

Reviews
Neerajmurali-”of all i loved the brown tint”

Photographer: Neeraj Shutterbug/LR Preset-Detail Extractor

Photographer: Neeraj Shutterbug/LR Preset-Rustic

Photographer: Neeraj Shutterbug/LR Preset-Brown Tint

Installation

How to Install Presets in Lightroom 4
  1. Click the link to download your preset.
  2. Choose a location on your hard drive to SAVE the zip file. You need to be able to access the location again, so make sure you know the file path to the folder.
  3. After download is complete, go to the zip file (if your download window is open you can right click and choose ‘open containing folder’).
  4. Right click (or double click on a Mac) on the file and choose ‘Extract All Files.
  5. Click on the folder that holds the set of presets and press ‘control’ and ‘c’ (‘command’ and ‘c’ on a Mac) to copy the folder.
  6. Open your Lightroom program.
  7. PC users— go Edit in the top menu, then to Preferences. Mac users – click on Lightroom word (top-left corner of screen), then to Preferences.
  8. In the Preferences menu, click on the Presets tab, then click on “Show Lightroom Presets Folder” button.
  9. When your Windows Explorer or Mac Finder opens up, double click on the Develop Presets folder.
  10. Press ‘control’ and ‘v’ (‘command’ and ‘v’ on a Mac) to paste in the preset folder.
  11. Restart your Lightroom program and the presets will now show up under the Preset panel in the Develop module.

 

FAQ

How do I install my presets?

Mentioned in the installation section

How do I know if I shoot RAW or jpeg images?

Read the Camera Manual.

Do you suggest RAW presets on jpeg pictures? Or jpeg presets on RAW pictures?

Both the formats work

Are all of your downloads instant? Do I receive anything in the mail?

Yes, all of our downloads are instant.

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Vineet Suthan

Vineet Suthan is a part yime Freelance Photographer based in Dubai. He Specializes in HDR, Fashion, Beauty, Interiors, Maternity and Corporate Shoots. He is also author of Vineet-Suthan.com/photoblog.

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May 16, 2013 - 1:02 pm

Zaki Qutteineh - Great blog, Vineet … very well presented (especially with the before-after slider).

May 16, 2013 - 1:04 pm

Vineet Suthan - Thanks…Glad you liked it. It took me 2 days to get this stuff working;)

MOTHERS NEST-MATERNITY PHOTOGRAPHY-SERIES 3

Dubai Maternity Photographer 04

Dubai Maternity Photographer 03

Dubai Maternity Photographer 02

Dubai Maternity Photographer 01

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Maternity Photography

This is another series of dresses that i like the most in these series. The bags that are shown in the picture are part of the maternity and not just for the sake of photography. Its good to incorporate props in your shot just to make it quite different. This was a planned shot in terms of props as the client wanted to incorporate these in the shot. The difficultly here in this shot when shooting with two models is that a shadow of one should not fall on other and if they are unavoidable then it should not be dark and ugly. You can see the shadows are there on the model on the left but its not too dark. The lighting diagram is shown below. You may check the series 1 here, Series 2 here

Mothers Nest-Dresses for Maternity

I am not being paid by the Mothers Nest for this but i should say this is a shop has some amazing clothes for your maternity at a reasonable rates. I would highly recommend this shop if you every intend to do a Maternity shoot with me. I shall be providing soon a page for the dress that you could wear for Maternity Photoshoot from this store soon.

Model Release Form

The client had earlier requested if i could have a model release form but i soon forgot about it. Why the client requested for the Model Release form is because the images were going to be used for various commercial prints and hence they requested me to get them. Is this applicable in all the situations. Though some may say that only for commercial work the model release is required while few others would debate if the models cannot be identified in the picture then not required. What did i mean by model not identified. Well say you took a  silhouette of the model where you cannot identify who the model is or you took the back side of the model where the face is not shown in the picture in these cases MRF is not required.   i would say it is better to get the MRF whenever you shoot people in studio and especially if you are paying them modelling fees.

I have created one model Release form which is almost similar to the one when found in the internet. While that version is in PDF my version is in Microsoft Word for you to edit them for your taste. Click here to download

Lighting Diagram

For the lighting, i knew i had to use the Big Softboxes (Profoto 6×4-click to purchase from Adorama) to light the model and the dress. The reason for choosing big soft box is i had to light the dress evenly and only a big softbox i can think of. The small softbox were light from Visico Lights and used mainly for the background lights. Why mixed light well, the studio only had only these ones (lets not go in for color consistency for this matter) . Here for this shots, the background lights were reduced and kept it a lower level than the front lights as we did not want a pure white nor too dark images. The models was around 1.5 to 2 meter away from the wall. One model was just behind another a little bit.

Post Processing:

Camera Raw-Basic Adjustment like Contrast,  Clarity, Hue and Saturation and Chromatic Aberration

Adobe Photoshop Cs6-Retouching Floors and Skin.  Basic Color Toning.

For the client i avoided the overall color tone and left as shot as they wanted to feature this in the brouchers. The Skin retouching was one using Imagenomic Portraiture. This plugin saves a lot of time when you have around 50 shots to retouch.

Disclosure

If you make a purchase using links found in this article(AdoramaAmazon)regardless of the country in which you live, I may make a commission. It doesn’t cost you a penny more, but it does help to support future articles like this.

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Vineet Suthan is a part yime Freelance Photographer based in Dubai. He Specializes in HDR, Fashion, Beauty, Interiors, Maternity and Corporate Shoots. He is also author of Vineet-Suthan.com/photoblog.

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Tethering Cable-Nikon D800-Review

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Tethering Cable-Nikon D800

Hi everyone, today i thought i would give insight into buying a tethered cable for your camera. As an example, i am just account for my Nikon D800 Body. For my recent Maternity shoot, in order to have a productive shoot, it would be a nice idea if the client can see the shots instead of showing them via camera LCD. This would reduce unnecessary shots and the client could select the pictures then and there itself.  I had been to the studio before and i found the location of where my Laptop would sit and where my camera would be. I found that length was more than 2 meters in length. The USB cable that came with the d800 was really short and i needed a larger cable.

You may say, I could get a Nikon Wireless File Transmitter for my camera or even get an Eye Fi X2 16 card and set it up to work with the wireless network but that would set you back $700 or $ 92 and also you would need to have a wireless network present in that studio and as a engineer in this field, i can say, that the cable system is more reliable than wireless especially in this situations where the data is being transfered and i did not want any issue with wireless where the transfer of the image could cause a hinderance. Also with the data transfer will depend on the distance between the laptop and camera. The more the distance the longer time for data transfer.

 

SuperSpeed Micro-B Cable-TetherPro USB 3.0

The 15′ (4.6 m) TetherPro USB 3.0  Cable from Tether Tools is a premium quality extension cable. This cable can be purchased at Adorama and Amazon 

Specifications

  • SuperSpeed USB has a 5 Gbps signaling rate offering 10x performance increase over USB 2.0.
  • Fully shielded
  • Integrated Sync-N-Go technology which minimizes user wait-time.
  • Optimized Power Efficiency.  No device polling and lower active/idle power requirements.
  • Backwards compatible with USB 2.0.  Devices interoperate with USB 2.0 platform.

The set-up is simple, you just need to plug the male end of the active extension cable to your computer and then plug your camera or other devices’ USB cable into the female end of this cable.The 15 foot(4.6m) USB 3.0 cable connects to the camera using the micro B connector to ensure delivery of excellent performance.  Available in High-Visibility Orange or Black.

Conclusion:

I ordered this tethered cable from Adorama which is priced at $49. You can also order it from Amazon. Asi needed this cable within one week in Dubai and i knew i could rely on Adorama as usual. I got the cable within 4 days (including holidays). I found this cable to be rigid and strong and value for money. The transfer speed is amazing and it took around 2-3 second for a RAW file to be shown in the Lightroom. This cable is pretty good stuff and i highly recommend this cable if anyone is planning to get one. One thing to note here is, this cable is not very flexible like any other USB 2 cables  you might have encountered and hence you need to be make sure that the connected end of the camera does not have any stress or strain. I had mine come out during the shoot and i was lucky it was not during the file transfer. To avoid this you can get the JerkStopper Camera Support priced at $17. You can get this cable from Amazonalso here This is shown below

What if you need more than 4 meter cable. Can you add another USB extension cable from local market. Well you could but once this cables (Passive cable) goes beyond 4 m in length, the data transmission may result in signal errors and noise and hence are not recommended. You could in fact get an Active extension cable. An active USB device enables signals and data transfers going in and out of the extension cable to buffer and ensure consistent signal quality, thus meeting USB’s highest electrical and timing specifications. Up to four active USB extensions and one passive 15′ (4.57 m) USB can be daisy chained together for a total of 80′ (24.38 m) before any drop in signal or quality.

Disclosure

If you make a purchase using links found in this article(AdoramaAmazon)regardless of the country in which you live, I may make a commission. It doesn’t cost you a penny more, but it does help to support future articles like this.

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Vineet Suthan

Vineet Suthan is a part yime Freelance Photographer based in Dubai. He Specializes in HDR, Fashion, Beauty, Interiors, Maternity and Corporate Shoots. He is also author of Vineet-Suthan.com/photoblog.

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