This is the second lesson on professional photo shooting for Manfrotto. Pratical lessons referring to real works. You will learn how i took pictures that probably you know well and professional techniques in different fields. Here you will see the making of the shooting for the new Manfrotto Campaign 2009.

With this lesson I suggest to change your point of view. It is worth it. Try to photograph from an elevated point of view even when an existing location from which to shoot is not available. In most cases the result will change drastically just by raising the camera a few meters. In the Manfrotto catalog you will find, amongst other items, an exceptional tool, the 269HDBU-3U Overlook Stand.

This is the first lesson on professional photo shooting for Manfrotto. Pratical lessons referring to real works. You will learn how i took pictures that probably you know well and professional techniques in different fields. Last but nost least, thanks to video, pictures and schemes you will be able to enter in the backstage of important shooting.

A simple yet powerful Photoshop tool to effectively boost the local contrast of an image, by means of a smart algorithm which avoids the clipping issues typical of methods like shadows/highlights. The user interface is simple and clean, with just one slider, allowing the user to customize the effect in a straightforward way.

 

Sharpening with Gaussian and edge-aware blurring kernels; a new experimental approach on High-Radius Low-Amount sharpening; how to separately target edges and texture in the same high frequency range. Gaussian, Bilateral and Mixed pyramid decompositions, efficient platforms on the top of which new sharpening strategies can be developed.

 

In 2000 Imacon, now Hasselblad, created a new proprietary format for the Imacon scanners, the Flexible File Format or fff. 3F has determined the biggest revolution in the field of original analog scanning since the introduction of the drum scanner.