Archive for TheStudioCoach

Lumapix is a fantastic imaging software

FotoFusion assembles professional-quality albums in seconds from your digital images. A unique high-performance interface speeds creation over traditional photoshop approaches, with interactive control over image position and cropping, drop shadows, edges, tiles, blur and sepiaton, among many other effects. An integrated RIP engine allows the composition to be reprocessed for efficient sharing by email or [...]

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In my studio I already have a studio strobe as a second light I want to use a quartz lamp?

Some steps are essential 1- decide which lamp will be the main lamp 2- do not mix different light type on your main subject 3- use your second lamp for a support effect For example if you use the flash to light your subject you will do an exposure test and a white balance adjustment [...]

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If you can dream it…. you can do it

Auto F/X software… the best suite of plugins for Photoshop. From fancy effects to soft nearly unperceivable, you can tweak and modify your image. Frames, textures and light effect even a photo enhancer that works like magic. I’m a graet fan of Auto F/X since over 7 years when I bought the 1st version of [...]

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I just discovered Tivity softwares: WOW!!

2 new applications: one for flash authoring and one to setup photo galleries and presentations. I have played with the demo for a couples of days and I am amazed, I test and play with many softwares but these one realy blasted me off. It makes hundred of type of presentations and the interface just [...]

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Simple Panorama

Simple Panorama Again from LensPen a super bright idea, they package a simple VR support for the camera, that is combined wit the ArcSoft Panorama software, already configured for usage with the spinning adaptor head. And best of all works perfectly on horizontal and vertical shots. 

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Official launch ColorBalanceCoach

(TEXTE FRANCAIS À LA SUITE DU TEXTE ANGLAIS) Montreal Photographer Turns Inventor Making Digital Photography Color-Perfect at the First ShotMontreal, Wednesday, September 27, 2006- This week Montreal Photographer Jean-François O’Kane will introduce in a world premiere, a new colour balancing system for digital photography that he invented and perfected himself at the Photokina international fair [...]

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The Color Balance Coach target instructions

Easy to follow video instruction have just been published on the ColorBalanceCoach web site click here to watch. Do not hesitate to contact Customer service for any info. cbc@colorbalancecoach.com Jean-Francois O’Kane The Color Balance Coach

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Who is the Studio Coach

For over 20 years, Jean Francois has excited his clients with fresh, cutting edge imagery. He is recognized amongst his peers and has been awarded several times for his excellence in photography. His passion for photography is evident as he discusses everything from lighting to success to business startup. Jean-Francois has successfully bridged the rift [...]

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The Studio Coach At Stan C. Reade in London Ontario

WOW! What a group in London, I had never experienced a community feeling as this one at Stan C. Reade. James Cowie have knitted links so close with staff and customers that telling between patrons and staff is sometime difficult for an outsider. OK I may not seem to be fair in my report, that [...]

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The Studio Coach patents the Color Balance Coach target

The ColorBalanceCoach disc looks like a photographic reflector and like it, it can be collapsed to use only a fraction of the space, this allowed us to include on the disc the largest grey card on the market, that can still fit in your photo bag. The ColorBalanceCoach is made of 4 distict regions called [...]

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