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FULL EDITORIAL available at: www.miguelmartin.es/stories/what_to_wear_tonight/
model: María S. @Pasarella Image Agency
mua & hair: Javier Romero
photo & edit: Miguel Martín
Practicando un nuevo workflow de procesado. ¿Qué os parece el resultado? (imprescindible verla en grande).
Strobist info: 41cm white beauty dish 1,2m from model @ 1/4.Reflector para rellenar en la parte de abajo.
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New retouching workflow. Fancy the results? (Please watch it fullsize!!).
Strobist info: 41cm white beauty dish 1,2m from model @ 1/4 . Reflector down for fill.
Since 2004 I use this workflow. This workflow stay since 2006 on my pbase account:
By changing frequence, amplitude and waveform other figures are created. Many examples stay on my pbase account but a few are now also on this flickr site.
My workstation melted so rather than be sad, i decided to see how viable the ipad is as a mobile editing solution. The apps have come a long way, but theyre still not as nice as a desktop apps. By that i mean the algorithms seem a bit sloppier than desktop versions.However it works in a pinch and would be an excellent solution for a traveling photographer who wants to travel light. If youre an instagram photographer, then its a perfect fit.
Just experimenting with a some little video clips that show a before and after and how my workflow gets me where I want to go...
Como,Vincenzo Castella's exhibition. 180x300cm LightJet prints: scans by CastorScan
N3 LightJet prints 180x300 cm on Kodak Endura Paper
Scans by CastorScan
Stampe digitali LightJet 180x300 cm su carta Kodak Endura.
Scansioni da negativi colore Kodak Portra 160NC 12x20 pollici (30x51 cm) realizzate da CastorScan su scanner a tamburo.
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CastorScan's philosophy is completely oriented to provide the highest scan and postproduction
quality on the globe.
We work with artists, photographers, agencies, laboratories etc. who demand a state-of-the-art quality at reasonable prices.
Our workflow is fully manual and extremely meticulous in any stage.
We developed exclusive workflows and profilation systems to obtain unparallel results from our scanners not achievable through semi-automatic and usual workflows.
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CastorScan uses the best scanners in circulation, Dainippon Screen SG-8060P Mark II, the best and most advanced scanner ever made, Kodak-Creo IQSmart 3, a high-end flatbed scanner, and Imacon 848.
The image quality offered by our Dainippon Screen 8060 scanner is much higher than that achievable with the best flatbed scanners or filmscanners dedicated and superior to that of scanners so-called "virtual drum" (Imacon – Hasselblad,) and, of course, vastly superior to that amateur or prosumer obtained with scanners such as Epson V750 etc .
Dainippon Screen SG-8060P Mark II exceeds in quality any other scanner, including Aztek Premier and ICG 380 (in the results, not just in the technical specifications).
8060's main features: 12000 dpi, Hi-Q Xenon lamp, 25 apertures, 2 micron
Aztek Premier's main features: 8000 dpi, halogen lamp, 18 apertures, 3 micron
ICG 380's main features: 12000 dpi, halogen lamp, 9 apertures, 4 micron
Some of the features that make the quality of our drum scanners better than any other existing scan system include:
The scans performed on a drum scanner are famous for their detail, depth and realism.
Scans are much cleaner and show fewer imperfections than scans obtained from CCD scanners, and thus save many hours of cleaning and spotting in postproduction.
Image acquisition by the drum scanner is optically similar to using a microscopic lens that scans the image point by point with extreme precision and without deformation or distortion of any kind, while other scanners use enlarger lenses (such as the Rodenstock-Linos Magnagon 75mm f8 used in the Hasselblad-Imacon scanners) and have transmission systems with rubber bands: this involves mild but effective micro-strain and micro-geometric image distortions and quality is not uniform between the center and edges.
Drum scanners are exempt from problems of flatness of the originals, since the same are mounted on a perfectly balanced transparent acrylic drum; on the contrary, the dedicated film scanners that scan slides or negatives in their plastic frames are subject to quite significant inaccuracies, as well as the Imacon-Hasselblad scanners, which have their own rubber and plastic holders: they do not guarantee the perfect flatness of the original and therefore a uniform definition between center and edge, especially with medium and large size originals, which instead are guaranteed by drum scanners.
Again, drum scanners allow scanning at high resolution over the entire surface of the cylinder, while for example the Hasselblad Imacon scans are limited to 3200 dpi in 120 format and 2000 dpi in 4x5" format (the resolution of nearly every CCD scanner in the market drops as the size of the original scanned is increased).
Drum scanners allow complete scanning of the whole negative, including the black-orange mask, perforations etc, while using many other scanners a certain percentage of the image is lost because it is covered by frames or holders.
Drum scanners use photomultiplier tubes to record the light signal, which are much more sensitive than CCDs and can record many more nuances and variations in contrast with a lower digital noise.
If you look at a monitor at 100% the detail in shadows and darker areas of a scan made with a CCD scanner, you will notice that the details are not recorded in a clear and clean way, and the colors are more opaque and less differentiated. Additionally the overall tones are much less rich and differentiated.
We would like to say a few words about an unscrupulous and deceitful use of technical specifications reported by many manufacturers of consumer and prosumer scanners; very often we read of scanners that promise cheap or relatively cheap “drum scanner” resolutions, 16 bits of color depth, extremely high DMAX: we would like to say that these “nominal” resolutions do not correspond to an actual optical resolution, so that even in low-resolution scanning you can see an enormous gap between drum scanners and these scanners in terms of detail, as well as in terms of DMAX, color range, realism, “quality” of grain. So very often when using these consumer-prosumer scanners at high resolutions, it is normal to get a disproportionate increase of file size in MB but not an increase of detail and quality.
To give a concrete example: a drum scan of a 24x36mm color negative film at 3500 dpi is much more defined than a scan made with mostly CCD scanner at 8000 dpi and a drum scan at 2500 dpi is dramatically clearer than a scan at 2500 dpi provided by a CCD scanner. So be aware and careful with incorrect advertisement.
Scans can be performed either dry or liquid-mounted. The wet mounting further improves cleanliness (helps to hide dirt, scratches and blemishes) and plasticity of the image without compromising the original, and in addition by mounting with liquid the film grain is greatly reduced and it looks much softer and more pleasant than the usual "harsh" grain resulting from dry scans.
We use Kami SMF 2001 liquid to mount the transparencies and Kami RC 2001 for cleaning the same. Kami SMF 2001 evaporates without leaving traces, unlike the traditional oil scans, ensuring maximum protection for your film. Out of ignorance some people prefer to avoid liquid scanning because they fear that their films will be dirty or damaged: this argument may be plausible only in reference to scans made using mineral oils, which have nothing to do with the specific professional products we use.
We strongly reiterate that your original is in no way compromised by our scanning liquid and will return as you have shipped it, if not cleaner.
With respect to scanning from slides:
Our scanners are carefully calibrated with the finest IT8 calibration targets in circulation and with special customized targets in order to ensure that each scan faithfully reproduces the original color richness even in the most subtle nuances, opening and maintaining detail in shadows and highlights. These color profiles allow our scanners to realize their full potential, so we guarantee our customers that even from a chromatic point of view our scans are noticeably better than similar scans made by mostly other scan services in the market.
In addition, we remind you that our 8060 drum scanner is able to read the deepest shadows of slides without digital noise and with much more detail than CCD scanners; also, the color range and color realism are far better.
With respect to scanning from color and bw negatives: we want to emphasize the superiority of our drum scans not only in scanning slides, but also in color and bw negative scanning (because of the orange mask and of very low contrast is extremely difficult for any ccd scanner to read the very slight tonal and contrast nuances in the color negative, while a perfectly profiled 8060 drum scanner – also through the analog gain/white calibration - can give back much more realistic images and true colors, sharper and more three-dimensional).
In spite of what many claim, a meticulous color profiling is essential not only for scanning slides, but also, and even more, for color negatives. Without it the scan of a color negative will produce chromatic errors rather significant, thus affecting the tonal balance and then the naturalness-pleasantness of the images.
More unique than rare, we do not use standardized profiles provided by the software to invert each specific negative film, because they do not take into account parameters and variables such as the type of development, the level of exposure, the type of light etc.,; at the same time we also avoid systems of "artificial intelligence" or other functions provided by semi-automatic scanning softwares, but instead we carry out the inversion in a full manual workflow for each individual picture.
In addition, scanning with Imacon-Hasselblad scanners we do not use their proprietary software - Flexcolor – to make color management and color inversion because we strongly believe that our alternative workflow provides much better results, and we are able to prove it with absolute clarity.
At each stage of the process we take care of meticulously adjusting the scanning parameters to the characteristics of the originals, to extrapolate the whole range of information possible from any image without "burning" or reductions in the tonal range, and strictly according to our customer's need and taste.
By default, we do not apply unsharp mask (USM) in our scans, except on request.
To scan reflective originals we follow the same guidelines and guarantee the same quality standard.
We guarantee the utmost thoroughness and expertise in the work of scanning and handling of the originals and we provide scans up to 12,000 dpi of resolution, at 16-bit, in RGB, GRAYSCALE, LAB or CMYK color mode; unless otherwise indicated, files are saved with Adobe RGB 1998 or ProPhoto RGB color profile.
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This flowchart is based on David Allen´s GTD and a flowchart which I found on the web made by the company "FreeAssociates". You can find the original chart here: freeassociates.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/gtd-processing...
International architectural think tank, LAVA, go green at Customs House.
Summary:
Summary:
Chris Bosse, Tobias Wallisser and Alexander Rieck’s LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture) launched the ‘Green Void’, a spectacular sculptural installation suspended in the central atrium of Sydney Customs House.
LAVA designed the ‘Green Void’ installation specifically for the Customs House central atrium which spans through all five levels. Suspended from the top level Café Sydney restaurant, a vertical distance of almost 20m, the sculpture provides an intense visual contrast to the beautifully restored heritage interior of Customs House. GREEN VOID is a digital design, derived from nature, realized in lightweight fabric, using the latest digital fabrication and engineering techniques, to create more with less. Comprised of 3000 cubic meters of space is enclosed within a minimal surface area of 300 square meters and uses only 40 kg of lightweight material.
The Customs House ‘Media Wall’ displays content across 11 video screens detailing the process of design, engineering, fabrication and installation of the sculpture along with recent international design projects completed by the LAVA team.
3D works by multimedia artist Peter Murphy creating 3d immersive imagery can be viewed without shutter glasses displayed over the new 3D screen technology.
The entire installation is immersed in a soundscape by sound artist David Chesworth, who created a “digital rainforest”.
Graphic design by emerging graphic designers TOKO, featuring a 3dimensionally layered catalogue, a wireframed mediawall, and projections onto the building.
Tensile Membrane Company Mak Max, the engineers and fabricators of the sculpture have developed a unique workflow from digital design to Digital Fabrication of complex shapes.
The exhibition is part of the continuous multidisciplinary program developed by Jennifer Kwok, the Manager of Customs House, to activate the public space with a focus on featuring contemporary architecture, photography and multimedia exhibitions.
Background:
The installation is inspired by the relationship between man, nature and technology. SENSUAL, GREEN and DIGITAL, the installation captures some of the key visions of the design team, which has over the past 12 months established offices in Sydney, Abu Dhabi and Stuttgart.
The project caps off a spectacular year for the trio and follows LAVA’s successful launch of the Michael Schumacher World Champion Tower (MSWCT) an ultra-luxury residential tower in October in Abu Dhabi, and the November launch of the future hotel Showcase suite in Germany.
The team also managed to pick up Best International Interior and the Sustainability Grant at the 2008 Interior Design Awards.
Chris’s work on the Watercube Swimming Centre for Beijing 2008 received the prestigious Atmosphere Award at the 9th Annual Venice Biennale and Chris was recently recognized as an emerging architect on the world stage by the RIBA London.
Tobias was instrumental in the emergence of the recent Stuttgart Mercedes-Benz Museum between 2002 and 2007 which has attracted worldwide attention for its innovative spatial concept.
concept
The installation is a ‘Minimal Surface’ that consists of a tensioned Lycra material, digitally patterned and custom-tailored for the space. The Five “funnels” of the sculpture reach out to connect the various levels and carefully hover just off the main interior atrium of the Customs House above the model of the city.
LAVA Asia Pacific Director Chris Bosse explains:
“The shape of the installation is not explicitly designed; it is rather the result of the most efficient connection of different boundaries in three-dimensional space, which can be found in nature in things like plants and corals. We only determined the connection points within the space and the rest is a mathematical formula, a minimal surface.
the concept was achieved with a flexible material that follows the forces of gravity, tension and growth, similar to a spider web or a coral reef. We are interested in the geometries in nature that create both, efficiency and beauty”
The lightweight fabric design follows the natural lines, contours and surface-tension of the fabric.
While appearing solid, the structure is soft and flexible and creates highly unusual spaces within customs house, which come to life with projection and lighting.
Since the 1970’s, with Frei Otto’s soap-bubble experiments for the Munich Olympic Stadium, naturally evolving systems have been an intriguing area of design research; something that hasn’t been lost on the team and their fascination with new building typologies and naturally developed structures.
Lava sought for advise and inspiration from American artist Alexandra Kasuba, who since Woodstock 1972 has created imaginative membrane sculptures around the world, followed by international artists such as Amish Kapoor and Ernesto Neto.
“We wanted to see how far we could take the idea of creating more space with less material, filling 3000 cubic meters, the equivalent of 8 million cola cans, with a minimal surface of 300 square meters weighting only 40 kg.”, emphasises Tobias Wallisser Director of LAVA Europe and professor of Digital Design at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.
Rising up to the top level restaurant, a vertical distance of almost 20m, the sculpture provides an intense visual contrast to the beautifully restored heritage interior of Customs House.
The Customs House ‘Media Wall’ is also activated with content detailing the process of design, engineering, fabrication and installation of the sculpture along with recent design projects completed by LAVA across 12 video screens.
The whole installation is immersed in a soundscape by sound artist David Chesworth, who created a “digital rainforest”.
Graphic design by emerging graphic designers TOKO, featuring a 3dimensionally layered catalogue, a wireframed mediawall, and projections onto the building.
3D works by visual artist Peter Murphy creating 3d immersive imagery that can be viewed without shutter glasses thanks to a new technology.
Catalogue Essay by Matteo Cainer , Architecture Critic, London.
Key data:
Building Materials: Specially treated high-tech Nylon and light
Dimensions: approx. 21x8x12m
Surface Area:300 m2
Volume/space: 3000 m3
Weight: 40 kg
Construction/manufacturing time: 5 weeks
Green Void Credits:
Chris Bosse, Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck
Jarrod Lamshed, Esan Rahmani, Kim Ngoc Nguyen, Anh Dao Trinh, Erik Escalante Mendoza, Pascal Tures, Mi Jin Chun, Andrea Dorici.
Contact:
Chris Bosse
Architect | Director
LAVA
Laboratory for Visionary Architecture
72 Campbell Street
Surry Hills
Sydney NSW 2010
Australia
Phone: +61 2 92801475
Fax: +61 2 92818125
Mobile OZ: +61 (0)410773260
Mobile UAE: +971(0)501514386
Mail: bosse@l-a-v-a.net
Press inquiries for LAVA:
Jane Silversmith
jane_silversmith@mac.com
M + 61 [0] 408 029 118
LAVA
directors@L-a-v-a.net
Mak max:
Kobi Tollitt
KobiT@tmcshade.com
Daniel Cook
DanielC@tmcshade.com
Suite 420 185 Elizabeth Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Freecall: 1800 777 727
Customs house:
Jennifer Kwok
JKWOK@CITYOFSYDNEY.NSW.GOV.AU
JENNIFER KWOK | MANAGER CUSTOMS HOUSE
LEVEL 2 31 ALFRED STREET CIRCULAR QUAY NSW 2000
TELEPHONE 02 9242 8591 | MOBILE 0419 205 086
Green Void Features
Digital Workflow
The project renounces on the application of a structure in the traditional sense. Instead, the space is filled with a 3-dimensional lightweight-sculpture, solely based on minimal surface tension, freely stretching between wall and ceiling and floor.
The design and fabrication procedure uses state-of-the-art digital workflow; beginning with 3D computer modelling, that is engineered structurally before undergoing a process of computer controlled (CNC) material cutting and mechanical re-seaming.
The computer-model, based on the simulation of complexity in naturally evolving systems, feeds directly into a production-line of sail-making-software and digital manufacturing.
The product shows a new way of digital workflow, enabling the generation of space out of a lightweight material that requires minimal adjustments onsite to achieve a complete installation in an extremely short time.
Sustainability
LAVA’s process of optimized minimal surface design and CNC (computer numeric code) fabrication technology allows the sculpture to reveal a new dimension in sustainable design practice.
Fulfilling the sustainable agenda of the venue, the work succeeds in its quest for optimum efficiency in material usage, construction weight, fabrication and installation time, while at the same time achieving maximum visual impact in the large atrium space.
The pavilion is easily transportable to any place in the world; can be quickly installed, and is fully reusable.
Fabrication
The sculpture materials consist of a double stretch, 2 way woven fabric that is mechanically attached to specially designed aluminium track profiles. Each profile is suspended from above, and to the side, on 2mm stainless steel cabling.
LAVA BACKGROUND
At the vanguard of a nonconformist and inventive new generation in architecture,
LAVA bridges the gap between the dream and the real world.
LAVA operates as a unique think tank with branches placed strategically worldwide. It has been formed by some of the most experienced and forward thinking architects from around the globe.
LAVA was founded by Chris Bosse and Tobias Wallisser in 2007. During its first year, the office has completed a wide range of projects in Germany, Australia and the U.A.E.
Chris Bosse is the director of LAVA Asia Pacific, based in Sydney, Australia. Chris is Adjunct Professor and Innovation fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney and lectures worldwide.
Educated in Germany and Switzerland, Chris worked with several high-profile European Architects before moving to Sydney. For a number of years Chris was
Associate Architect at PTW Architects in Sydney, completing many projects in China, Vietnam, the Middle-East and Japan.
Chris’s work on the Watercube Swimming Centre in Beijing received the prestigious Atmosphere Award at the 9th Annual Venice Biennale and Chris was recently recognized as an emerging architect on the world stage by the RIBA London.
Tobias Wallisser and Alexander Rieck are the directors of LAVA Europe and are based in Stuttgart, Germany. Tobias is Professor of Innovative Construction and Spatial concepts at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.
After studying architecture in Berlin, Stuttgart and New York, Tobias worked in the United States, Netherlands and Germany. For 10 years Tobias was Associate Architect at UNStudio in Amsterdam, completing a series of high Profile projects and master plans including the World Trade Centre project in New York and the Arnhem Interchange.
Tobias was instrumental in the emergence of the recent Stuttgart Mercedes-Benz Museum which has attracted worldwide attention for its innovative spatial
concept.
Alexander works as a senior researcher at the renowned Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart. He studied architecture in Stuttgart and Phoenix and worked for a number of high-profile architects in Germany before joining the field of research. He started his research career in the Virtual Reality environment.
Alexander has led many of the Office 21 research projects that produced groundbreaking work in the field of future office organisation. He is a expert
on innovations in the fields of office, hotel, living and future construction, and an author of many publications about working environments and building processes of the future.
Research and Design Focus
LAVA’s research and design focus allows the evolution of architectural and urban design outcomes inaccessible through traditional methodologies.
Our process continually evolves; responding to global and market forces to deliver high quality, technologically advanced and sustainable projects that inspire a new generation.
LAVA Sydney and Stuttgart already have become hotspots and breeding grounds for a new generation of architectural talent.
Network Practice
LAVA works as a network practice, providing Visionary Architectural and Urban design services worldwide.
The LAVA network provides clients with access to an extensive team of leading design consultants and offers a comprehensive list of Architectural Design, Urban Design, Development Feasibility, Marketing and Master planning services.
Our collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute enhances our work; we can call on cutting-edge research in the field of virtual environments, revolutionary office configurations, new materials and future scenarios.
Our longstanding collaboration with the architectural office WENZEL+WENZEL allows us to provide continuous services and to execute and coordinate individual projects from the beginning to the end.
Collaborations:
ARUP Advanced Geometry Unit | London
Fraunhofer Institute of Industrial Engineering | Stuttgart
Fraunhofer Institute of Solar Energy Systems | Freiburg
PNYG: COMPANY | Dubai
Werner Sobek Ingenieure | Stuttgart
Teuffel Engineering Consultants | Stuttgart
Transsolar Energietechnik | Stuttgart
Wenzel+Wenzel Architects | Stuttgart - Abu Dhabi
Recent Projects
Within the last year, we have worked on the following projects:
Sports Resort | U.A.E.
Architonic Lounge | Cologne
Office Tower | Abu Dhabi
Guest House Al Otaiba | U.A.E.
LBBW Headquarters | Stuttgart
Boutique Hotel Study | U.A.E.
Branded Tower Concept
Branded Tower | Abu Dhabi
Education City Sports Facilities | Doha
Pol Oxygen Pavilion | Sydney
Mixed use Tower | Stuttgart
Master plan Fuxin | China
Future Hotel Showcase | Duisburg
Hotel Jaegerstrasse | Stuttgart
Armstrong Pavilion | Munich
Zero Energy Houses | Saudi Arabia
Infographic that illustrates a comparison between an existing workflow, and a more collaborative and "agile" project workflow.
Got my mini travel photo editing process set up and tested today. Shoot with the m4/3 Panasonic GX8, transfer to iPad Mini via SD adapter, edit with Lightroom mobile, upload to web via whatever means necessary.
(except the tagging interface on the Flickr iPad app is atrocious)
Classic PC workflow:
-Working...
-BSOD!!!
-Frustrated Nap.
Mac user sneaks in and documents for future fan-boy ridicule.
Nikon D90 + Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8
The fact an SVG image is an xml document comes handy. In the past our workflow has been defined by the icon theme spec. We worked on individual files for every icon size. That becomes problematic when you tweak an aspect of an icon and you have to keep the change in sync with the other versions (It shows itself in the tango-icon-theme emoticons, where you have clearly different colors between the various sizes).
During the suse hackweek I've cooked up a php script that would take a two-layer SVG, where in one layer there would be rectangles defining the size and the other the actual artwork and call inkscape to render the objects into PNGs.
And since I'm now working in a team that deals with ROR a lot, I've found a scripting language that I very much like, ruby. I'm no hacker, but man do I love the simplicity of it.
My parents' Sony RX100 next to my Microsoft Surface Pro. The perfect "Portable yet Powerful" combination for a photographer!
Photograph as seen on The Hugehog Blog.
a workflow chart describing general content creation process as shared by professional media and hobbyist bloggers alike.
IOGraphica overlaid on my photoshop document for 31.5 minutes. I've been working on this for a few hours, so this is an incomplete mouse track.
You can download this workflow from David Allens website: www.davidco.com/pdfs/gtd_workflow_advanced.pdf
or you may try the D*I*Y Planner Templates, which is a collection of very good templates, includying the one you liked: www.diyplanner.com/templates/official/classic
There are also other great gtd workflows that are similar to this one:
smerino.bol.ucla.edu/gtd/gtd-1.html - Collection
smerino.bol.ucla.edu/gtd/gtd-2.html - Daily Reviews
smerino.bol.ucla.edu/gtd/gtd-3.html- Weekly Reviews
elementkstaff.com/Student_Course_Materials/bnu/images/gtd...
blogs.salon.com/0002007/images/workflow_diagram3.gif
My new photo project about workflow of my friend and fashion designer Alena.
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