Woman peeking over sunglasses
Woman peeking over sunglasses A beautiful woman peeks over her sunglasses with a coy smile. She's wearing a black top and her hands are behind her back.
Second image from the last shoot I did. This is one of my favourite images from the session, although it's probably not the most 'stock worthy'.
This was the first shoot I've done with the camera hooked directly up to the laptop. I've played around with the setup before, but never used it for a real shoot.
I have to say I'm totally sold on this setup. The instant feedback you get from seeing the capture full screen with accurate histogram information is invaluable. The ability to take a test shot, check composition, lighting, shadows, give feedback to the model is second to none.
Aside from location shooting, I'll be shooting this way from now on.
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Hey Si, what do you use to hook your cam up to the laptop to do that?
Hey Andi,
I used a firewire cord. If you're cam hasn't got a firewire connector, you can use a USB lead.
I tried it out with both C1Pro and DSLR Remote Pro. Both have advantages and disadvantages.
With C1 you can take one image, setup accurate white balance, contrast, etc and have this applied to all the captures as they come into the laptop. However you're limited to the normal capture one size preview and viewing options. But as the package is already open it's easy to quickly zoom in a check critical areas are sharp etc.
DSLR Remote Pro only allows you to select from the same options you have in camera for white balance, etc. It doesn't do all the fancy RAW processing. But what it does do is give you the options of doing time lapse shots (no need to even touch camera), display the focus points used for the shot, overlay a user defined grid (great for composition - rule of thirds etc). DSLR Remote Pro will also display the image full screen, and allow you to save the images to the memory card as well as the laptop, a good idea in case something goes wrong in transfer.
Thanks, Si. I'll have to look into this.
I just moved my PC to the basement right next to my studio space... I'll be curious to try that with my 22" monitor. I saw they were using that at ShootDigital in NYC when I went to visit Clay Enos. They had a G5 digital workstation with dual 24" LCD monitors mounted to it using Remote Capture. It rocked.. there were about half a dozen art directors standing around saying this or that. Definately the way to work for a client shoot!
I thought I was a gadget freak... I didn't realize you could do this. I don't have the need for this just yet but I have to check this out. Definitely sounds like a great workflow for when your client know exactly what they want and want to direct it to a T.
I really need to do this. LOL Thanks for the post, Si!