Photographers To Watch For: Kait Robinson
Kait Robinson is not just a photographer, she’s a great person. Her work speaks for itself even through her modest nature. She’s down right amazing. I got a chance to speak with her and she is as amazing as her images.
Kait’s words:
My interest in photography first sparked when I was taking traditional darkroom courses in High School. My senior year came along and my interest only continued to grow when I finally got my first DSLR camera- a Nikon D80. From then on, I was reading every piece of material that related to photography. Books, online forums, tutorials… pretty much anything imaginable. It was, for the most part, a hobby, until my sophomore year of college. I wanted to combine my love for fashion and photography and make it into a future for myself.
Shortly after, I moved to New York City and am now attending the Fashion Institute of Technology majoring in Photography. I knew I needed to be in a place not only where the industry is, but in a place where I can constantly evolve my eye and stay inspired. My main goal with my photography is to simply make the images that I visualize. Photography is so satisfying in the sense that it allows me to share ideas and concepts that I have with so many people. It’s in a way, an insight into who I am.
With her drive, passion, and recent internship at Art+Commerce, I have no doubt she will be someone the world will know soon enough.
Looking At Your Favorite Selects After A Shoot On Your Computer
Looking at selects after a shoot is a lot like going to see a comedian at a comedy club.
When you go to a comedy club, the comedian is hilarious! You have a great time and so do the people you go with. He’s so good that you remember him a few days later. You decide to search for him and see his best material online. You show your friends while you watch and then, for some reason, you realize it wasn’t as funny as you remembered when you were there.
Similarly, when you’re shooting, everything is going amazing and you look at the back of your camera as you go along. “That’s the one! That’s the money shot!” you scream. Everyone is loving it and you feel like you got some amazing shots. The team gets excited and it almost turns into a party.
You go home and a couple of days later you go back to those shots and you think to yourself, “they aren’t as good as I remembered?”
So what’s missing? Half of it’s the psychology of the environment influencing you to like the shots more than you wanted.
Similarly to the comedian you see online later, the atmosphere is completely different now and the humor isn’t influenced by anything other than the comedian. Take away the drinks, your friends, the laughing fat guy in the corner that makes it funnier - when it’s just you and the material, it all changes.
It’s amazing how psychology and environment affects how much you actually like the same thing and how it changes based on what conditions you see it under.
The 5D Mark III At A Glance: Canon 5D Mark III Review
So besides the obvious specs (here), what are the key differences and upgrades?
First and foremost, the 14 bit a/d conversion and sensor size of 24x26mm is still the same. So for sheer image quality it’s probably not a big upgrade. However, it does have the beautiful DIG!C5 processor which reduces false color and other ‘junk’ that can prevent beautiful imagery, however the difference may be subtle.
The 5D3 now has 6 frames per second in burst, which is a big step up! Also, in video, at 720p you can now shoot at 60fps! (Yes!). Furthermore, the ISO range has expanded.
It used to be ISO 100 to 6400 calibrated basic, now it has expanded to 100 to 25,600 calibrated basic, expandable two levels up all the way to 102,400.
They also have a new button called “rating” where you can star your shots to bookmark your favorites of the bunch. It’s one of those features you know you wanted but never thought about creating a tool for it in camera. I always write the file number down for the ones I love when previewing them after the shoot when I know I got the shot.
Finally, there’s another mode where you can shoot in ‘silent single frame’, where it makes far less noise than regular, in situations where shutter slaps aren’t welcome. This is also available in burst mode too.
They also modified the design a bit, making it more rounded from the side, and angled at the top. I do prefer the MKII design more, though.
Has the autofocus improved?
There is good news! Prior, on the 5D2, the focus was apparently not that great. It needed to be improved similarly to how the 7D was. Furthermore, you couldn’t enable the autofocus assist beam unless you had a flash or an STE-2 (if I recall correctly).
Now, changes are:
1) They fixed the autofocus issue.
2) You can now enable the autofocus assist beam without anything attached! It works very good!
AF Assist Beam
(1) Enable
With an EOS-dedicated Speedlite, AF-assist beam is emitted automatically when necessary.
(2) Disable
(3) IR AF assist beam only
What else?
There are plenty of other features, like a HDR mode increasing the natural dynamic range of each image without the ugly faux-HDR look.
Also, the improved weatherproofing on the body, just don’t play with it in the rain.
Additional CF and SD card slots.
This review was primarily leaning to the stills side, but there are also more video upgrades which you can find in the spec list at the top of this article. The most relevant being the headphone jack.
Let’s recap:
6 fps, DIG!C 5, 60fps in 720p, better autofocus, 100 to 102400, silent single and burst frame mode + more features.
Why Are Your Tiff Files Bigger Than Your Raw Files?
This conversation will explain why.
Although raw files are far better in regards to manipulating an image even over a 16 bit tiff file, the raw file is a compressed format, while the TIFF file is uncompressed, leading the TIFF files to be way larger.
Check out the conversation. I am sure many people did not know this, and this is for them.
Enjoy.
Hey You, You’re Special!
How often do you stop to remember how important your photos are to someone?
Do you ever imagine your clients looking back on photos you took of them in the future, only to remember how great the photos are you took of them? It may be of ‘THE’ wedding day photo, or it may be a couple shoot. It may be of a relative you took that passed away. They hold that dear to them in such an escalated emotional value, probably more than you to your own work.
Sometimes we all get wound up in business and just getting the job done, but remember you do something special for people. Never forget that fact, no matter how low you may get sometimes during those bad times. Always remember your work is awesome and in a way, it makes you eternal. In 50 years, the photos you take will be around and someone, somewhere, will remember your awesome work.
Have a great day!
Two Things All Facebook Users Need to Know
Recently, being around people and using facebook, I’ve found that a lot of people have been quite surprised by these two features that I felt were almost common knowledge by daily users. They would see me post and ask me about these two features when they saw me use it.
So chances are these are obvious to you, or you may not know about these two features.
This post is for those people who may benefit from this and did not know about it before.
1. Stop Notifications On Old Posts
After you’ve commented on someone’s status, you usually get plenty of notifications that have nothing to do with you. They include all the comments after you. Facebook realized this was an issue and decided that you can opt out of these notifications by clicking on the ‘unfollow post’ button once you post.
For a while I’d reconsider commenting on someone’s status before this feature was enabled because I just didn’t want annoying notifications. Now it’s no longer an issue.
2. Edit Your Post
Once you post something, you have a chance to actually edit your post in case you made a mistake. They put this into an update without notifying everyone.
The key is you’ll have to do it relatively soon after you post. You can’t come back to it in a coupe of minutes, you have a specific window to follow.
Don’t worry about the time shown in the post, that’s simply a lack of adjusting that in post when I made the graphic.
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So there you have it! Happy posting.
