Thanks to the help of a buddy of mine over at Wizkid Sound, the website is now live! You can find it at www.deveauphotography.com. It is kinda a work in progress, but for the first website I've ever done I'm relatively pleased with the results so far. I will be making tweaks to it in the coming weeks starting with optimizing the resolution of the pics for the web. Any feedback about the site would be greatly appreciated, shoot me an email at deveauphotography@gmail.com. Cheers and have a great weekend!
Girl Talk and MOO
in Music, Photography
As most of you out there know, Girl Talk (aka Greg Gillis) has a new album out: All Day. It can be downloaded from the man himself for free here. I've been digging it so far and if you're interested in what samples are used where, then check this out. I'm not sure if it's 100% comprehensive but pretty handy none-the-less. Girl Talk is also going on tour and the dates can be found here. If you've never been to a Girl Talk show I'd strongly recommend checking it out....LOTS of energy and definitely something to experience. In terms of Deveau Photography I finished the layouts for the business cards tonight and will hit "submit" on my order as soon as I get paid tomm. Pretty nerdy but I'm pretty excited about this. I'm using MOO for the cards (this set at least, hopefully they turn out as planned). So far it's been relatively painless getting the designs and things into MOO. They provide an Adobe Illustrator template (I used Illustrator CS5 for my designs) with the proper sizing and directions and what not which makes it easy for design/print newbies like myself to get something together. The photos were a little more challenging on the other hand. My main problem when I did the watermarking for the cards was that I had a mixture of pics in a 4x5 ratio and in a 4x6 ratio. I found out the hard way that the 4x5 ratio (ones I had cropped for 8x10 prints) didn't really fit that great onto a card so I had to resize a lot of the pics to 4x6. A pain, but now I know, and so do you. They have a photo enhancement option which made some of the photos look good but I opted out because it distorted the colors on my logo. The photos also get cropped slightly due to a "bleed" area. This is something to keep in mind that you can get around by printing the photos to JPEG in Lightroom (I use Adobe Lightroom 2 for my photo management needs....soon to be Lightroom 3) with a border....scales the pic down with the proper dimensions with a border that you can use for your bleed area. I'll try that for my cards in the future but this particular set I just wanted to get done. Call me antsy buuuuuuut whatever. Business cards will take 6-9 business days, so hopefully I'll have to give out around the holidays. cheers
Peter Jackson, I Hate You
Well I don't REALLY hate Peter Jackson, more like extremely jealous of. Although I still am a little confused as to how he went from making such films as 1990's Meet the Feebles (probably the raunchiest puppet movie ever) and 1992's Dead Alive (cheeky zombie movie with lots of corn syrup dyed red) to making the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and producing District 9 (awesome take on species relations between humans and aliens, set in the racial hotbed that is South Africa...shot in part with the RED ONE), the man clearly knows how to direct movies and make big productions happen. Right now my latest gadget obsession is the RED Epic (http://www.red.com/products/epic). It's a 5K digital cinema camera with over 13.5 stops of dynamic range (I believe I read around 19 stops with the RED HDRx feature) that also takes still and can use Nikon and Canon lenses in addition to the pro-cinema PL-mount lenses out there. In short...I want one. Jim Jannard of RED recently announced that the Epic is finally production ready after several years of development. RED is currently taking orders for pre-production Epics, with production on the Epic slated for Q1 2011...I think. Of course RED delivery times are always subject to change. Anyway, it was just announced that Jackson's latest production, The Hobbit, will be "filmed" in 3D with the RED Epic.....at least 30 of them! All jealousy for Mr. Jackson's ability to play around with 30 Epics aside, I can't wait to see the results. I doubt I'm the only one, Tolkein fanatics worldwide are probably drooling over the thought of a non-animated cinematic adaptation of the famous book. Jackson's The Hobbit: Part 1 is slated for 2012, so we'll all have to wait til then to lay our eyes on the feature. Cheers!