Old Thirty Five stock | A Plastic Revolution | Magical Photos

This is a thorough video review of the new Lomography Spinner 360.
http://microsites.lomography.com/spinner-360/

I spent about a week or so with this camera, and have blown through over 8 rolls so far, and I absolutely love it.

For some more detailed information about this camera, with links to high res film scans, check out my blog posting about it here:
http://blog.isotropy.ca/2010/06/lomography-spinner-360-review/

To see some shots taken with this camera, check out my flickr feed, or check out this flickr search.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kgartner/
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=Lomo+360&m=text

If you have any comments or questions, just let me know!

Thanks!

A 3D Journey | Information Parity | Stereo Knowledge

This is a recording of a presentation I gave in October of 2008 on Frantic Films work on Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D.

There’s quite a few topics covered here including:

Post-vis, 3D tracking Stereo footage, Fluid Simulations, Creature design, Compositing Passes, Creature Rigs, Particle tests with Krakatoa, Cloth Simulations, 2D look Developlemt, and common problems with 3D Stereo Footage.

There’s a bunch of behind the scenes stuff here that normally doesn’t make it out of a VFX studio, so I hope you enjoy it!

Let me know if you have any comments of questions!

Thanks!

Hey all, You might be wondering what a tutorial like this is doing on a tutorial site for VFX artists. Well, I’ve decided that i’m going to start adding some Photography tutorials, since I feel that having a fundamental knowledge of photography is an important part of being a well rounded VFX Artist. There’s so many areas of Photography that cross over into VFX, it seems like a very natural fit. Everything from how lenses work, to how a camera records information, to film stocks, etc, are all things that, one way or another, you will encounter if you work in VFX.

Kodak EIR infrared film is a bit of an obscure topic to start with, but it’s something I’m very passionate about, and I think the look of this film really kicks ass. It’s the only reason I still have a 35mm film camera kicking around, and I’ve got 19 rolls left, so hopefully i’ll be shooting it for another 19 years or more

I’ve also scanned in all the pages from the UK version of the June 2001 Practical Photography magazine, and provided a link to it here: See a new world: Shoot Infrared! (13.7mb) This is a fantastic resource for people looking for more information on this kind of photography.

One thing I forgot to mention in the tutorial is that ALL of the images that I go over are being shot with the orange filter in my fisheye lens. In order to get that red/blue colour, you need to shoot with an Orange filter. If you want to go with something more purple, you can shoot with a yellow filter. It’s pretty cool as well, but I just prefer the look of the Orange filter.

Here’s a slideshow of my best Infrared shots in Flickr:

If you have any questions, please let me know in the comments!

Thanks!

In this tutorial, we take a look at all of the photography equipment that I use on a regular basis. There’s quite a bit of gear covered here, so I’ve provided some external links for those of you who want to get some extra information.

If you have any questions about any of this stuff, just let me know!

Thanks!

Digital Brushes | Ones and Zeros can enhance | Beauty in the lens

A 1.5hour Photoshop editing session compressed into a three minute time-lapse.

Shot with my Panasonic GF1, with 20mm pancake lens. Triggered my remote flash with my Opus trigger.

This photo and many others can be seen in my flickr stream here:

http://flickr.com/kgartner/

If anyone has any comments or questions, i’d love to hear them!

Learn why you should work in 16-bit and 32-bit modes, Advanced Photo Manipulation, and many other tips and tricks! This tutorial is meant for intermediate to advanced Photoshop users who want to take their knowledge to the next level! There’s lots of discussion in here about topics that aren’t readily covered in Photoshop tutorials, and I think you’ll be surprised by what you learn!

Advanced techniques | Taken to the next level | Your skills will increase!

Here’s a quick overview of a few of the topics that are covered:

Working in 16-bit and 32-bit mode:

• Why 8-bit is for suckers!

Advanced Transfer (blending) Mode 
Tricks and tips

Working Non-destructively in Photoshop

A preview of this tutorial can be seen here

Advanced Photo Manipulation

File Formats Explained!

A preview of this tutorial can be seen here

Photoshop Tips and Tricks!

What’s included in the Download?

I really hope that you enjoy this tutorial. I had a lot of fun putting it together. If you have any comments or questions about anything, send me an email, and I’ll try and answer it as soon as possible. Thanks!

Thanks!

The Lens Flares are back! | But the same rules apply… | Use them sparingly

A 30 minute Photoshop editing session compressed into a 2:16 Time-lapse.

I shot this with my Panasonic GF1 with the 20mm pancake lens. The USS Enterprise is an old christmas ornament that’s been in the family for a long time

This photo and many others can be seen in my flickr stream here:

http://flickr.com/kgartner/

If anyone has any comments or questions, i’d love to hear them!

A 1.5 hour photoshop session compressed into a 3:50 time-lapse. I went to a friend’s place on the weekend, where he keeps his drums. We wanted to take some cool shots, so we set them up in the back part of their yard, and started shooting.

I shot this shot with my Panasonic GF1 with a Fisheye adapter screwed onto it. The fisheye adapter is really cheap, so there’s lots of chromatic aberrations on the edge, but I kind of like the way it messes up the image a bit.

This photo and many of my others can be found in my flickr stream here:

http://www.flickr.com/kgartner/

Anyways, enjoy!

If anyone has any comments or questions, I’d love to hear them. Thanks!

A 1.5 hour photoshop session compressed into a 3:50 time-lapse. At one of Sarah’s recent soccer games, there was a beautiful double rainbow just beside the field where she was playing. I wanted to get a really nice shot of it, but I only had my LX3 and not my AE-1 with my fisheye lens…

So, I thought this would be a good a time as any to get into the world of HDR Panoramas! Without a tripod, I set my LX3 to take bracketed exposures of as much of the surrounding area as I could. I took 27 shots in total, 9 shots with 3 exposures each. These were then all dumped into a great free panorama tool called Hugin. There’s a few other tools out there to do the same thing like AutoPano Pro, but Hugin seems to allow for more manual control when things go awry when stitching together your images.

In the image above, you can mouse over it to see how the original images get distorted inside of Hugin to stitch together.

Once the image was stitched together, it was exported as an HDR .exr file and brought into Photoshop where the magic happens.

The clouds that day were pretty dull, as the sunset was actually happening to the west, and this was being shot towards the east. The drab sky called for a sky replacement! That along with a bunch of other colour tweaks and you’ve got the final result!

If anyone has any comments or questions, I’d love to hear them. Thanks!