Ken’s Shoot Notes Blog

Go Big! Digital displays at the URMC Discovery Ball

Posted on May 12th, 2008 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Skills, Photo, PhotoJava, Rochester NY, Events.

For the URMC Discovery Ball, we created several huge displays. This one was about 20 feet wide and was the scrim that then opened at the transition to the dinner hour. It is 16×9 format HD and it included a timelapse of a two hour sunset from the new Wilmot Cancer Center building.

Over about 10 minutes, you could see the sunset through the windows, while people came and went, cars drove by and the lights came on… it was a big hit and guests stood there just watching it. The display then included some of my ‘beauty views’ of the new building from the outside fading toward sunset.

Thanks to Ron Cronk for his help during the 3 hours we worked on this shoot!

This display of our work was 5′ tall prints (thanks to some great help from our local Kodak friends!)

The goal was really to bring the new building to the guests.

Thanks for the fun, creative projects Kim & everyone at URMC & the Cancer Center!

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Photo Slideshows: PulpMotion and BannerZest

Posted on April 24th, 2008 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Apple, Skills, Photo, Teaching, Blogging, OSX, PhotoJava.

I use Boinx’s FotoMagico for my pro digital image shows. It has wonderfully smooth transitions and lots of features, but I just bumped into PulpMotion from Aquafadas software.

Aquafadas has a slick little Flash program that’s part of the current MacUpdate Bundle Deal (check that out too!) and I bumped into PulpMotion from that.

It uses the ‘theme’ idea that’s ruined many such products, but these guys are like Apple… their design sense rocks. And on top of that, some of the themes just seem to be simple transition and text settings.

I’ll demo it and let you know if it’s as cool as it looks. Check out their site for videos of the shows created with PulpMotion.

(BannerZest Example with a theme)

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Colin’s Photos

Posted on March 26th, 2008 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Apple, Personal, Skills, Equipment, Photo, Teaching, PhotoJava, Family, Famous People.

Photo credit: Colin A. Huth

I love how kids don’t mind ‘breaking the rules’ and come up with some really cool shots. The iPhone also helps, because Colin can always grab it when we’re running around and take shots. I went to a talk on Digital Photography Future with Alexis Gerard at the George Eastman House, and the access to cell phone cameras is one topic of how digital photography is changing.

I had even mentioned this idea in an article on the future of photography for Element K Journals a few years back … when you always have a camera with you, and it doesn’t cost anything to take images, we take so many interesting images… and think differently about taking pictures.

Doesn’t Colin has a good eye and a fun sense for photos. He’s 12 and we homeschool the kids.

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FIRST Robotics & Tiltviewer

Posted on March 19th, 2008 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Schools, Teaching, Internet, Aperture, PhotoJava, Rochester NY.

I just wrapped up editing the FIRST Robotics FInger Lakes Regional photos (it was a blast, BTW) and I thought that gang of cool geeky youth would dig this new gallery style from Airtight Interactive . It’s a 3D grid effect and can load photos from a folder, or grab them from your FlickR account by tags. Try it out, it’s sweet. I particularly like the ‘next gallery’ photos falling effect. Visit the gallery HERE

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And the Answer is… the World’s First Digital Camera!

Posted on November 10th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Equipment, Photo, Teaching, PhotoJava, Rochester NY, Famous People, Events.

Yes, the presentation I’ve been hinting at in earlier posts was on the first digital camera as developed by Kodak in 1976… it was an awesome presentation and a real peek at history.

This is the mission statement of the ‘Camera of the Future’ project.

TV Output

Kodak Digital Milestones

It recorded to cassette tape.

As you saw in the earlier posts, I wasn’t the only one geeking out on seeing the camera… what’s so cool about being the photog for GEH is being able to go up on stage and get the cool angles, and to meet the people involved… what a great event. It was all part of a Leica symposium held at GEH.

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Two Good Hints

Posted on October 13th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Skills, Equipment, Teaching, PhotoJava, Rochester NY, Famous People, Events.

It was an event at the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House and Kodak was involved.

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