Landscape and bodyscape workshops

The 2 last editions of TheStudioCooach Landscape and Bodyscape workshops were held in Sutton Quebec and in London Ontario. The participants were thrilled by how photography of a the figure study becomes easy and rewarding by adopting a new look on the subject. Men and women as well took part as photographers and all have [...]

World Photo Walk in Montreal

Montreal Photowalk was a great success
you see me with all my walking gear:
ThinkTank belt wit 2 bags, Hoodman loupe, Olympus E3 taking the picture and a fun E-500 with a lens babie and in it’s pouch a PhotoMasterTarget to make sure these images are white balanced and exposed properly.

Photowalking in Orlando

In April 1st when everybody is busy playing “april fool” we were a group of dedicated rookies joining Jeff Revell for the Official Orlando, pre Photoshop world PhotoWalk. The walk started just as a rain cleared just like magic, and we followed our leader. I was there as a simple enjoying photographer, I also brought [...]

PhotoWalk Pro in Orlando

I will be taking part in the Orlando Photowalk, on monday april 1st downtown Orlando. It is organised by Jeff a seasoned photo-walker. Since some time I follow his blog and did envy the participants of these events. I’ll be in… so check my images and read his blog on it….
If you read this on [...]

Photoshop world in Orlando

I will be at PhotoshopWorld in Orlando April 2-3-4. I will be giving a hand to my friends Jim DiVitale, Helen Glassman, Frank Chriccio and Joe Glyda. In each of these classes we will have raffle of some PhotoMasterTarget as well as in Kevin Ame’s, Pete Bauer and Shawn King workshops.
Photoshopworld is a truly amazing [...]

The Color Balance

THE COLOR BALANCE ALSO CALLED THE WHITE BALANCE IS A TECHNIQUE THAT WILL ENSURE A PHOTOGRAPHED OBJECT TO BE CAPTURED WITH HIS REAL COLORS, ENSURING AN OPTIMAL RENDERING AT THE MOMENT OF DISPLAY ON THE COMPUTER MONITOR OR ON THE FINAL PRINT. YOUR CAMERA HAS SETTING OF EXPOSURE AND COLOR BALANCE THAT CAN BE SET [...]

Why do I get only three peaks on my histogram?

One regular question about the color balance coach target is: why do I get only trree peaks on my histogram?
as you can see on the left side of the hand-drawn graphics that the target is used facing the camera instead of facing the light. When you do so the difference of the light from [...]

New StudioCoach product

The videographers dream for white balances, the WhiteBeam now enters the market! It is an 8″ disk that is placed in front of the video camera lens in order to do the white balance in 5 seconds flat. This ensures continuity of light and easy matching of sequences.  For more information…
Now available on line, the [...]

FAQ PhotoMasterTarget/ColorBalanceCoach: Do I use the exposure info (F-stop and shutter speed) taken from the grey surface or the exposure info taken from the whole disc including the white and black colors ?

The exposure info that you will have when aiming at the target whole or grey patch, will be used as a starting point to set the final exposure using the 4 patches and representation on the histogram. The 4 peaks pattern on the histogram ill be the confirmation of proper exposure.
Once your histogram is perfect, [...]

FAQ PhotoMasterTarget/ColorBalanceCoach: When I take the picture of the grey surface, should I leave my WB settings to AWB to take the picture for use in setting custom WB ?

For Canon, Nikon and other brands, it does not make any difference the mode that you are in when you take the image you will use for setting the white balance. As a second step the camera will white balance the surface or the image that you have chosen to perform the custon WB.

The FAQ [...]