The Latest NS Video:

Posted on March 21st, 2007 in Business, Photography, Videos by Rebel Fish

Rebel Fish is very proud to bring you “The Fabulous Four: The Signature Lighting Techniques of LaCour”!


Fabulous Four

Everything you could possibly want to know, and a bunch of stuff Rebel Fish can’t imagine wanting to remember (umm.. some crazy calculations about light falling off at some kind of rate from the source and the color of the ceiling with the balance of the white and the face of the subject and the size of the aperture. must. drink. coffee.).

LaCour are not only brilliant artists, they are amazing technicians. Rebel Fish learned so much watching this video, she’s excited for her next wedding to try out the techniques.

Check it out!

Upcoming Fishfood For Thought

Posted on March 14th, 2007 in Business, General by Rebel Fish

We’re working hard to have our next video ready by WPPI. Stay tuned! We’ve teamed up with a fantastic photography studio to produce a top-notch training video that you’re going to love.

Stay tuned for an announcement and a trailer soon…

RF

Sensor Cleaning Dosen’t Have to Hurt

Posted on March 6th, 2007 in Digital, Photography by Rebel Fish

Here’s a quick post by Kevin Swan showing one way to clean your sensors… Click HERE!

Voicemail transcribed to Email — Poof

Posted on March 4th, 2007 in Business, Digital, Workflow by Rebel Fish

There’s a new service, currently in beta, called Simulscribe. Rebel Fish is currently using it and LOVES LOVES LOVES it. It takes a little configuration, but once past that, the service is sweet. Instead of calls going to voicemail, they go to Simulscribe. Simulscribe transcribes the call and sends it as an email and/or text message. The email version has the original audio file attached, in case you need to hear it for some reason.

Now you can quickly scan your voicemails and delete them without spending time listening. Now you can quickly find phone numbers and important data without having to listen over and over again to write them down.

It’s truly freeing, and Rebel Fish is all about being free!

Highly recommended…

Fishy Resolution

Posted on March 3rd, 2007 in Digital, Workflow by Rebel Fish

Rebel Fish sees people asking questions like, “what resolution should I save my file at? 72 or 300?” It doesn’t matter at all. Resolution just determines the number of inches the file will be set to, but the number of pixels (the true measure of an image’s resolution) won’t change (unless you’re manually changing an image’s size as WELL as its resolution).

You can see this for yourself (and if you don’t quite understand resolution/dpi/etc., you should try this!):

Open Photoshop
Create a new document: width 10 inches, height 10 inches, resolution 72 pixels/inch
Pull up the image size dialogue (image/image size)
Turn OFF the resample image check box.
You’ll see you have an image that is 720 pixels by 720 pixels (which makes sens: 10 inches x 10 inches at 72pixels/inch)
Change your resolution to 300 ppi
You will see the width and height change to 2.4 inches, but the number of pixels hasn’t changed.
IT IS STILL THE EXACT SAME FILE. The same resolution, the same amount of data. You’re just representing it with different math.

Some publications may require a certain resolution, e.g., you may be required to export a file at 4×4 inches at 300 dpi. That’s a 1200×1200 pixel image. You could export it at 12×12 inches at 100 pixels/inch and you’d have the exact same file, but the magazine may whine at you.

Whining isn’t sexy.

RF

Here’s another post with much more detail.