Filed under: Photography, Technology | Tags: Aperture, Camera, D3s, Nikon, Photography, Photoshop
So, um, like well you upgrade from a Nikon D3 to a D3s – going from one pro camera to another – and find you can’t open images in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, or Apple Aperture.
I know, I know, NEF / RAW support is coming – but jeez this is a pro camera, Nikon should work more closely with the software vendors to get these updates to market in sync with the body release. Total FAIL…
UPDATE
Adobe does have a Beta of the next release of Camera Raw, and this will work with the D3S files (thanks Adobe!) It’s a timed Beta so will expire, but no worries as the expiration date is likely no earlier than the release of a final version. Hard to know when Apple will be ready though.
Of course if Nikon didn’t encrypt MY photos and used something like DNG, then this would not be a problem…
UPDATE 2 (Dec 18th 2009)
OK, Apple have now released an update so I can use Aperture again. Thank you…
UPDATE 3 (Dec 19th 2009)
Adobe’s update is out too – job’s done. Back in business.
From receiving the camera to full software support took three weeks. Probably not bad, but then again for a pro camera not good either. Having sync’d releases (or a more open standard such as DNG) sure would help…
Others seem to have similar views
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/12/finally-digital-camera-raw-compatibility-update-2-7-for-mac/#more-372747
Filed under: Media, Photography | Tags: Photoshop, polarizer, reflections
The idea was to photograph a series of pet-food packs. This seemed easy enough, but it wasn’t as simple as it might seem…
The plastic packs proved highly reflective (as seen on the left image), so a few tricks were required. Firstly I used a polarizing filter over the lens, then I experimented with polarizing gel over the flashes. This helped a lot, but the final tweak came via a simple trick – namely to take one photo, move the lights and take another. The two images were then overlaid in Photoshop, and using selective masking I could paint over most of the reflections showing a non-highlighted part of the pack in the layer below (I left some reflections on purpose to communicate the surface feel)
So far so good…
