]]> http://www.on-sight.com/2010/04/20/texas-love-bus-print-program/feed/ 0 http://www.on-sight.com/2010/01/19/calumet-photo-of-the-week/ http://www.on-sight.com/2010/01/19/calumet-photo-of-the-week/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:00:50 +0000 Scott Martin http://www.on-sight.com/?p=1358 I’m thrilled to have Calumet choose my “Texas Love Bus” image for their photo of the week. Texas Love Bus is a 2 hour and 8 minute exposure made from 2 to 4am in West Texas. It was a moonless night so the bus was “painted” entirely by flashlight for several minutes. A pack of coyotes howled and played in the foreground during the exposure as I sat and listened in my car a few feet away. They didn’t show up in the final image because they weren’t illuminated on this pitch black night. I was grateful they didn’t bump the tripod as it would have messed up the long star trails I was going for in this shot.

People often ask “what makes the stars go in circles?” when they see this image. The answer is simple: the Earth’s rotation. Star trails are one of the many phenomenal aspects of night photography that we cannot experience with our eyes during the moment. Interested in night photography? Consider joining Lance Keimig and I at one of our night photography workshops in West Texas or California.

Ordering

For those of you in San Antonio I’d like to ask that you pick up your print at my studio Friday December 18th or by appointment. Please email me letting me know which prints you would like for me to have ready. Bring $200 cash for each print. For those out of town, email me with your order and send cash for $200 per image plus $25 for shipping and handling.

For future reference, all images are available in 4 standard print sizes: 17×22, 20×30, 36×54, 54×81. Email me for pricing and more information.

Limited Edition Portfolio Box

In addition to selling individual prints, I am making a few limited edition portfolio box sets with all 18 images.

These elegant, handmade 16×20 portfolio boxes will be availble for delivery in January for $2250 (shipped). You can place your order by sending payment (cash or check) by the end of the month. Thanks, I am very excited to be able to offer these portfolio boxes and prints this year.

Unlike the previously popular “Extract Monaco LAB” applescript, “Convert to MonacoLAB” is Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6.x) compatible. The Windows version is compatible with XP and Vista; it should also be compatible with Windows 7, though it has not yet been tested on that platform.

“Convert to MonacoLAB” uses a convenient droplet that allows the user to drag and drop a measurement file onto the droplet icon for processing. The processed measurement file retains the original file name and conveniently adds the “MP” suffix at the end of the filename.

You can read more about and download the Mac and Windows versions of Convert to MonacoLAB at Eric’s website. Here’s the direct link to the Mac download and the Windows download.

I’m a big fan of Bill Atkinson’s 1728 profiling targets and have been using Eric’s application in Snow Leopard to get measurement data into MonacoProfiler for generating printer profiles. I’m also a big fan of Eric’s work at Adobe. A big thanks to him for making this utility.

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I will continue offering the one-on-one training for professionals that I’ve been doing for 17 years now, both on-location and at my own printmaking studio. Some topics are best learned in the classroom and in the field, while other topics are best learned via one-on-one training. By offering both group workshops and one-on-one training I can better serve my clients. Shooting workshops in the field are my favorite as they are a great creative outlet for everyone involved – including myself.

All of these workshops are sponsorship free with less than 20 participants. Without sponsorship we can focus on your needs without the sales bias and marketing push that is so common in workshops and seminars today. We’ll talk about the positive and negative aspects of all types of hardware, software, media, etc without allegiance to any particular brand.

Feel free to email me and let me know what topics you’d like to see covered in future workshops. I think that 2009 will be a big year for a majority of photographers to make the switch to Lightroom, and for existing Lightroom users to perfect and master their workflow. Because I feel so strongly about the importance of this transition I am including Lightroom in each and every one of these workshops. I hope you’ll join me! – Scott Martin

Those interested in this type of workshop might consider attending our Night Photography workshop in in Big Bend next month or contact Lance or myself about other opportunities.

Please join me for the opening reception with live music Thursday, Sept 4th 6:30-9pm.

Bismarck Studios
930 Proton, Suite 202
San Antonio Texas 78258
(near the intersection of 281 and 1604) (yes, out there)

Hope to see you there! – Scott Martin

I’m taking part in the Yosemite Extreme Panoramic Imaging Project this weekend. Along with over 70 photographers and digital imaging experts we will spread out over the Yosemite Valley and will each capture gigapixel (1000 megabyte) images that will be compiled into one of the highest resolution images ever made.

The project began in summer 2007 as a discussion between xRes studio’s Eric Hansen and Greg Stock, staff Geologist of Yosemite National Park, about constructing a high res gigapixel image of the valley walls. Such an image would become a tool for Greg’s work in researching rockfall in the park, an ongoing hazard given the large percentage of vertical faces present in the valley. Utilizing cutting edge technologies in high resolution photography as well as 3D rendering techniques, the final image will be one continuous, unwrapped panorama of all valley wall faces.

Taken from twenty different locations spread throughout the valley, we will expose over 10,000 overlapping images in unison in order to achieve a congruency of light. Later, in postproduction, the 20 image sets will be stitched and draped onto a 3D terrain model recreating all shooting positions in an extremely high resolution 3D database. From this model, a synthetic camera will create the experience as if one was flying down the center of the valley, resolving all of the gigapixel images shot into one of the largest terrestrial based images ever created. Interactive displays, large exhibition prints, visitor center installations and fine art posters will all be final tangible results of the historic project. Image completion is expected by August 2008.

Visit the Yosemite Extreme Panoramic Imaging Project site and/or Download the project proposal PDF