Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Topaz Adjust: Designed to Make Photos “Pop” (50% Off)

Topaz Adjust: Designed to Make Photos “Pop” (50% Off)

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Topaz Adjust: Designed to Make Photos “Pop” (50% Off)

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 06:06 PM PDT

I’ve been seeing more and more prominent photographers integrating Topaz Adjust into some stage of their post-processing workflow. Trey Ratcliff, Rick Sammon, Scott Stulberg and many more have all praised this plug-in – works great for subtle yet stunning improvements. The company alerted us that they are offering it at it’s lowest price ever until the end of the month (half off), simply remember to use the voucher code septadjust at checkout. Deal found here: Topaz Adjust at 50% Off

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50% off deal ending soon (Click to Learn More)

Adjust’s intelligent “adaptive exposure” technology finds the best way to adjust contrast, detail, and color by analyzing your entire image.

Primary Features:

1. Fully adjustable enhancements – apply anything from simple photo enhancements to complete stylistic makeovers.

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Designed to enhance contrast, color, and detail

2. Intelligent contrast - tone and contrast adjustments. Topaz Adjust processes different parts of your photo differently depending on a variety of factors.

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Exposure detection technology

3. Detail quality - not the average sharpening filter. Topaz Adjust is designed to bring out detail that you couldn’t even see before, and make it look great. “Give photos some punch.”

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Professional detail adjustments

4. Vibrant color - Adjust’s adaptive color technology is like a smarter and better “saturation” slider: it makes your photo burst with color without making it oversaturated.

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Adaptive color technology

In this vide, Nichole Paschal introduces you to the new tools, improved interface, and how the tool can help in general:

The newest version Adjust 5 features an intuitive selective brush, 5 preset collections with over 100 new presets, preset stacking, transparency control, a finishing touches tab and other new additions.

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How to Get a Copy for Half Off this Week:

The tool is very easy to install and then appears under your filters menu in Photoshop or other programs. Currently 50% off until Monday September 30, simply remember to use the voucher code SEPTADJUST at checkout.

Found here: Topaz Adjust for Contrast, Detail, and Color Enhancements


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Timelapse of The Burning Man Festival 2013 (Video)

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 04:00 PM PDT

What appears at first to be an abstract animated image of colors and lights is actually a mountain top view of Black Rock City during the 2013 Burning Man festival. The week-long event celebrating community, art, and self-expression is held every year at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. This year, photographer and filmmaker Jason Phipps and his crew climbed the nearby Trego Peak to capture a unique view of the Burning Man city:

Phipps and his crew have created a unique and existential perspective on Burning Man. The festival is all about expressing one’s self through art, dance, fashion, and other creative outlets. What Phipps has done is expressed himself through the festival of expression, not by being in it, but by creating his own art about it. His filming of these people expressions through lights and colors, fireworks and bonfires, has become his own expression.

It’s interesting to think that Phipps has moved himself, both literally and metaphorically, away from the Burning Man to be able to create his own personal expression. In a way, it reminds us to step back from our own creative work once in a while to gain a better perspective on it as a whole. Sometimes we are too close and too focused on something to realize what we’re really trying to create. This doesn’t mean you have to climb a mountain like Phipps, but pulling away and viewing the larger picture can sometimes help you discover what you’re looking for.

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Black Rock City at night

This year, approximately 68,000 people attended Burning Man, almost 12,000 more than the previous year.


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Interesting Photo of The Day: Astronaut in Orbit 175 Miles Above Earth (Untethered)

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 01:41 PM PDT

Maybe it’s the vastness or, perhaps, the element of the unknown, but space is a mesmerizing place. As we explore it and learn more about space, the more and more fascinating it becomes. Even for us earthbound individuals, there is something about its awesomeness that intrigues us. And when we see photos such as this stunning image below, there is no wonder why we keep sending astronauts and rovers up there to look around:

Unbelievable untethered spacewalk using an experimental manned maneuvering unit (Via Wikipedia)

The above photo is of famous astronaut Bruce McCandless was taken by fellow astronauts, Robert Gibson, in 1984 when the pair were on a mission aboard the Challenger. The photograph was taken using an iconic Hasselblad from inside the spacecraft. The spacewalk we see McCandless doing, was the first untethered spacewalk, meaning he was in no way tied to the Challenger. McCandless was essentially in orbit, with the help of his special Manned Maneuvering Unit, or nitrogen fueled jetpack space suit.

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The space photo is stunning in itself, but what is truly special about the image isn’t even apparent. When the photo was taken McCandless was travelling at around 17,500 miles per hour (relevant to earth) at 150 miles above earth which we see in the background. The stunt, and the great photograph taken by Gibson, earned McCandless a large following of fans and even to this day he still makes appearances and signs autographs for his adoring fans.

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As technology advances, astronauts only use the special space suits as an emergency backup since most of the tasks that would require an astronaut to spacewalk are now down using robotic arms.


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Priest Halts Wedding Ceremony and Berates Photographer for Getting Too Close (Video)

Posted: 23 Sep 2013 11:30 AM PDT

Ask any wedding photographer and they will tell you that a wedding needs to run like a well oiled machine, which isn’t very easy to do. In order to make that happen everyone needs to be on the same page. From the guests, to the wedding party, to the vendors and the officiants, if they are all on the same plan, chances are things will go a lot smoother. This following video is a great example why, take a look:

The looks of confusion and worry on the bride and groom’s faces are very telling. As the priest was telling off the photographer for not minding his space, the happy couple experienced a moment of panic, ruining their special day.

This fiasco could have been avoided if the people involved in the event had more effectively communicated with one another. As a photographer, it is not safe to assume anything – better to ask questions about the venue’s and officiants rules and requirements. While the priest may have taken extreme measures and, to some, acted inappropriately, if the two had simply communicated beforehand, this event could have gone a lot smoother. What are your thoughts on this? Join the discussion in the comments below or here on our Facebook & GooglePlus.


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