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Calumet Review: X-Rite ColorMunki
Color Calibration Gets Simple |
ColorMunki has a funny Web 2.0 sort of name, like flickr, kuler or YouTube. It’s a name that implies a friendly interface and an enjoyable user experience. ColorMunki also has X-Rite’s pedigree, the company whose devices are widely relied upon at the pinnacles of the photo production industry. A complete X-Rite color workflow system—like the i1Photo—is pricey, daunting and largely unnecessary for the majority of photographers… It’s like shooting a baseball game with the Hubble telescope. Of course, a paper tube isn’t ideal for the job either.
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Calumet Review: Datacolor Spyder3Elite
Accurate Color, Fast and Easy |
Achieving accurate color has this alien quality about it, something everyone believes in, yet few have experienced themselves. For professional photographers, speculation won’t do. That’s why the first step in every digital workflow should be monitor calibration, but when you hear those two words, the last things to come to mind should be difficulty or frustration.
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Calumet Review: onOne Plug-in Suite 3
A Suite Full of Goodies |
The term “plug-in” can make an application sound small and insignificant, but in the case of onOne’s Plug-in Suite for Photoshop CS2 and CS3, it might help if you focus more on the suite part. Or sweet, as I heard myself utter several times while using these tools. The suite is made up of four programs: Genuine Fractals 5 (for enlarging images); Intellihance Pro 4.2 (for enhancing images); Mask Pro 4.1 (for detailed masking); and PhotoFrame 3.1 (for adding creative frames to your images).
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Calumet Review: Lowepro Computrekker Plus AW and Tamrack Expedition 7
Two Full-Size Photo Backpacks for Backcountry Shooting |
| In many ways the modern photographer’s backpack is the perfect photo bag. Fill it up and you’ve got all you need from lenses and meters to camera bodies and reflectors—even a tripod—right on your back. And with so many different sizes to choose from, you could have a dedicated pack for every style of shooting you specialize in. Read the full review » |
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Calumet Review: PocketWizard Plus II
Wireless Wizardry—Reliable Remote Triggering |
| If you’ve ever sent a strobe crashing to the floor because you tripped over a sync cord during a shoot, or your lighting options are limited to your sync cord’s length, listen up. We’re living in a wireless world, so why should we entangle ourselves in wires when shooting? The answer to corralling clutter and expanding your distance in studio shooting, while still triggering your strobes, is wireless remote triggers. And what comes to the top of the list when anyone mentions remote triggers is usually PocketWizards. Read the full review » |
