Matte...

Compositing Exercise from richard cave on Vimeo.

My latest matte paint and special effects work.  A more polished version will be on here soon. 

Rich 

My mate Udi...

Something New - A Photography Project  My mate Udi has come up with a fantastic photography project.  Please click on the link to see more. 

FWIW

I am going to join in!

What makes a pro? ...

Found at flickr, originally from sportshooter.  I spilt my tea reading this.  

It is a answer to the question,  "what is a professional photographer?"

On the lighter side.....These are excerpts from SportsShooter.com

A professional photographer is the Chuck Norris of photography 

A professional photographer's camera has similar settings to a non pro, except ours are: P[erfect] Av[Awesome Priority Tv[Totally Awesome Priority] M[ajestic] 

A professional photographer doesn't color correct. The world adjusts to match us.

Sure, a professional photographer deletes a bad photo or two. Other people call these Pulitzers. 

A professional photographer doesn't adjust his DOF, he changes space-time. 

A professional photographer doesn't wait for the light when he shoots a landscape - the light waits for him. 

A professional photographer never flips his camera in portrait position, he flips the earth 

A professional photographer orders an L-lens from Nikon, and gets one. 

When a professional photographer brackets a shot, the three versions of the photo win first place in three different categories 

Only a professional photographer can take pictures of a professional photographer; everyone else would just get their film overexposed by the light of our genius 

A professional photographer's nudes were fully clothed at the time of exposure 

A professional photographer once designed a zoom lens. You know it as the Hubble Space Telescope. 

When a professional unpacks his CF card, it already has masterpieces on it. 

A professional photographer’s portraits are so lifelike, they have to pay taxes 

On a professional photographer's desktop, the Trash Icon is really a link to National Geographic Magazine 

A professional photographer spells point-and-shoot "h-a-s-s-e-l-b-l-a-d" 

For every 10 shots that a professional photographer takes, 11 are keepers. 

A professional photographer's digital files consist of 0's, 1's AND 2's. 

A professional photographer never focuses, everything moves into his DoF 

A professional photographer's shots are so perfect, Adobe redesigned Photoshop for us: all it consists of is a close button. 

A professional photographer never produces awful work, only work too advanced for the viewer

"Whistleblower and old farts!"...

Been a long time since I last posted.  I have been working on other projects at the moment.   I watched a film the other day "The Whistleblower" Starring Michael Caine and john Gielgud.  It was not so much the film or plot that got me thinking.  I knew it was filmed in 1986, no mobile phones, no plasma tellys, no Starbucks (yay!!!).   

Our life is now full of convenience devices, latest mobiles and tellys.  Have they made our lives easier or more stressful?

I have the latest digital camera it does everything.  But the only time I have ever enjoyed photography was with a Hasselblad and light meter.  Strange a film camera being my favourite.  It was magic as long as you did your drills,  printed it correctly you would be amazed  at the results.  

The whiz bang attitude of todays digital photographers is a gimmee now culture.  Where did the love and process of photography go?

Chimping is rife you are a slave to the histogram.  Dont get me started on storage.  In my folder I have negatives that will print the same results time and time again.  Likewise digital storage mediums need backing up.  

I call this pyramid storage,  you need a backup of a backup all the time and you can get toom uch back up.  Online storage is a help but you then become blackmailed to pay fees all the time  Or become subject to image theft. 

I am gettting cantakerous now in my old age,   someone came up to me and told me he was a photographer.  I immediately thought pro or am?

So there I was wondering how to keep up with the digital age,  when I pop in the Indy movie.  

Watched behind the scenes.  Spielberg know his onions as half the crew were part of the original crew from the first three films.  The mantra was old school all the way through, using traditional techniques and only utilising digital for cost and time considerations.  

The editor was doing his splicing by hand the old fashioned way,  he was a lot faster and more technically adept than his AVID proteges.   

So listen to old film photographers trick and techniques before we loose the art of photography and not recovery via photoshop.  

Rich