Review: Olympus Stylus Tough 8000
© Paul Mozell 2010
A descendant of the Olympus 1040 SW, the new Olympus Stylus Tough 8000 features the camera manufacturer’s expertise in rugged design. It is likely that Olympus has done everything possible to protect the inner workings of this point-and-shoot camera from water, shock, and pressure; save encasing it in thick rubber. On one vacation day with the family, for example, you could drop this camera from a maximum height of 6.6 feet, dive underwater to 33 feet, absentmindedly leave it in mini-freezer in your hotel room, and run it over with bellman’s cart full of 220 pounds of luggage and still — be able to make snapshots and movies. Read more
Dressing for Winter Photography
© Paul Mozell 2010 — Although I live in New England, I am often surprised by the intensity of the complaints about winter weather. Its not that I want to keep folks from emigrating to Florida. Rather, knowing how to stay comfortably safe and warm is much easier than most people think. Heat management, and dressing correctly, is the key to getting great photographs of the winter landscape and cold weather sports and activities.
Mushing on Chocorua Lake, New Hampshire © Paul Mozell
Online Photography Sales: Do It Yourself!
© Paul Mozell 2010
Selling your own photographic prints and licensing your work is now a do-it-yourself imperative! The photography marketplace is overflowing with online providers of print production services and increasingly, options for posting and selling licensed images on your own, without the help of a stock agency.
When the bottom fell out of the stock photography market about four years ago, largely due to the success of micro-payment or micro-stock agencies, a number of entrepreneurial small players stepped up and said to photographers, “we’ll give you the tools to sell your own work. Go for it!” You can waste your time uploading hundreds of thousands of images to iStock, Shutterstock, et al who will sell your work for peanuts, Read more
Wedding Photography: Designing the 60 Second Spot
My workflow for this “ad”: Export images from Lightroom as jpegs. Import to iPhoto. Import to iMovie HD (I loath the new iMovie). Add a public domain soundtrack from Garageband. Export movie file to desktop and then upload to Youtube.
Nature Photography: Three Approaches
Old Pasture, Ipswich, MA, © Paul Mozell
© Paul Mozell
A day of nature photography can be approached with certitude, a casual air, rapid-fire shooting, or a blend of all strategies. More often than not, I’m hoping to get a feeling of being in the zone, and experience some prolonged periods of creative clarity when photographic compositions appear before my eyes without effort. It’s a bit like a runner’s high, or endorphin rush. Read more
Fixing the Keyword Export in Lightroom 2.0
Adobe Lightroom, radical changer of photographers’ workflow the world over, still has some imperfections. Recently, I’ve been frustrated to find that the stack of keywords I assign to stock images are not always exported with the file when using the Export command. I discovered that when clicked in the Keyword List, many of the keywords have the “Include On Export” check box de-selected. I went over and over the Lightroom menus many times, but could not find an appropriate preference setting to use. Finally, I found the cure on the Adobe site.
It turns out that when you import a catalogue from Lightroom 1.x to version 2.0, the default setting is de-selected. However, new keywords created in version 2.0 do have a checkmark. The solution adds a simple Script pulldown menu to your toolbar that converts the keyword library with a few keystrokes.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/405/kb405074.html Happy keywording to you! Not the great joy of my life.
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