Designing a Photo Website in WordPress #3

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Have you, like ourselves, paid significant sums to get a new website built, only to find that your traffic drops off and you just don’t get as many live inquiries as before? Don’t blame the economy! Get wise about what is happening – or not happening – inside your website. It’s been only recently that […]

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Gear In 60: SmallHD Monitor Case

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Here’s another video in our FreshDV Gear In 60 Seconds series that quickly shows how I store and travel with the SmallHD DP6 field monitor and it’s associated accessories. Watch below. GearIn60Sec_smallhd_case.mov For more info on how I use the DP6 on-set, see this blog post. […]

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Streamlining Color Correction in Premiere Pro

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Premiere Pro has a full complement of tonality and color correction tools including about 40 tonality and color correction video effects and four vector and waveform scopes. Most video editors gaze upon all those possibilities and end up choosing the path of least resistance: automated effects. As for scopes…forget about it. Who can make heads […]

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Quick Review: Manfrotto 055CXPRO4 Carbon Fiber Q90 4-Section Tripod

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As I mentioned several months ago, I've been a quest to find a lighter-weight but still high-quality monopod/tripod and head combination to help offset my penchant for bringing along ever-heavier lenses while hiking. One obvious line of enquiry would be a carbon-fiber monopod or tripod. Well, it so happens Manfrotto generously loaned me one of […]

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