Shootsmarter 2007; 2 DVDs over four hours long; play in any DVD player (worldwide) or CD-ROM.

Recorded LIVE at the day-long ROADTRIP! workshop, this DVD covers plenty of professional level tips, techniques, methods and fact based digital photography solutions designed to "max out" your digital photography.

2 DVDs in one double disc case featuring 4 hours of solid info presented in front of a live audience - with their questions (and Will's stupid jokes!) included.

GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR DIGITAL CAMERA, COMPUTER, LAB, AND PRO INKJET PRINTER FROM ONE OF THE TOP DIGITAL EXPERTS IN THE WORLD.

CONTENTS:
*** Color Confidence: Good color starts with good exposures.
Watch how Will fixes bad exposure and bad color in minutes.
Color spaces: sRGB and Adobe RGB workflow review.
Camera & Photoshop settings for simple and GREAT color from your lab or inkjet using the standard sRGB workflow.
*** TWO: JPEG OR RAW - Start with 2 files created under identical conditions, one is FINE JPEG, the other RAW converted to TIF both are in the sRGB color space. Let's print them BIG and take a look at the color and detail levels?
RAW files are smart when you need flexibility; Jpegs will make more money, but how much difference in print quality is there between the two? Will print them and discusses with the audience.
RAW+ JPEG Mode can solve some problems, but cause others.
Monitors show only sRGB colors, Will shows the limitations of both sRGB and the AdobeRGB space and how both handle common colors.
*** THREE: WHITE BALANCE WIZARDY - Static White Balance settings or Custom WB?
.. and what about AUTO WB?
Speed vs. quality tradeoffs.
Using the color bias inside your camera to "warm up" and white balance setting to your taste.
What your lab wants you to give them for great color.
Expodisk?
Setup Photoshop’s COLOR WINDOW
Color decisions for printing to a pro lab, Costco’s lab, and fine art inkjet printing.
What’s the difference between printing at Costco / Walmart vs. a Professional Lab?
BalanceSmarter for CWB.
*** MEGA PIXEL NON-SENSE - How many megapixels do you need in your sensor to make an big print with good detail and color?
Are quality and quantity of megapixels really connected?
*** OOOPS! GOTTA FIX THAT JPEG - Here’s revolutionary way to fix exposure problems in Photoshop on JPEGs from the guy that invented the FaceMask Histogram. Think GEO and OGE!
Condensing your workflow to become more efficient.
Exposure tolerance is now +.5 stop, and -.7 stop, thanks to PSCS2 and Lightroom.
Examples discussed of NORMAL, OVER and UNDER exposed images on-screen and printed at the lab.
OGE-GEO in Photoshop for JPEG repairs shown step-by-step.
Photoshop Exposure Adjustment window, what GAMMA, OFFSET, and EXPOSURE sliders actually do and how to use them.
Where does Lightroom fit into our workflow?
Rezzing up files to make BIG prints.
Which inkjet system is best for premium quality skin tone prints?
RIP software replaces your inject printer driver and ROCKS!
Megapixels vs print quality – the truth.
Non-professional printers and their output.
*** MONITOR MATCH - In order to control color and gain confidence in it, we need to see it. Here’s how to setup a "color station" in our studio that offers up an accurate screen-to-print match.
Lighting environments and how they effect our eyes.
Calibration of monitors, where to set the contrast and white point values.
There are no laptops with accurate color, why?
Monitors and profiling kit recommendations – which ones to buy.
Will brings in a Wacom Cintiq monitor and discusses profiling.
Color corrected fluorescent replacement tubes. Great monitor color control questions from the audience (and a few laughs too)
*** GOOD N' SPEEDY RAW WORKFLOW TIPS - RAW does not have to mean slow. Let’s make it faster by being smarter than the camera?
“How to speed up your RAW shoots” overview.
*** WILL'S TOP SMARTWARE PICKS - Software to make RAW processing, editing, contact sheets and photo presentations good, easy and profitable is only a click away. Take a look at our top picks for profits.
Making Slideshows?
Video CDs are a bad idea, iPods and Smartfone files.
Choosing slideshows that are downloadable or “viewable” only.
Will’s recommendations for slideshow software and PC and for Mac too.
*** ON-CAMERA-FLASH - NAILED! - The secret is knowing where the TTL systems will fail, then correctly compensating for that particular situation, and knowing how to stay out of areas where the systems will give you trouble.
Your on-camera flash system takes a TTL road or a non-TTL road. Will presents the gear that works for TTL or for non-TTL workflows.
The best TTL cameras made.
Will’s tips for choosing TTL gear to work in shoe mounted configurations or wireless, and he goes over all the top picks for flash units: Metz, Nikon, Canon and Quantum.
Light modifiers for on-camera flash, here’s Will’s choice in brands and types of tools to make your flash images better.
Connecting your flashes and strobes with pocket wizard or other wireless triggers.
*** WILL'S OC-FLASH MEASURED MANUAL METHOD - Ready for a new, NON TTL way to cover an event with on-camera flash?
Sometimes less is more; using MANUAL flash exposure mode at 9 feet away produces some terrific flash files.
Using flash brackets for rotating from horizontal to vertical compositions, here’s Will pick for gear and setup.
Flashmeters for on-camera flash – just not TTL.
*** CROCKETT'S LIGHT "ARC" - How 'bout a simple and powerful way to add a second light?
How about lighting the whole room?
One flash up in the corner of the room lets up shoot a HUGE room with great color and exposure control. Watch how well it works in this live demo.

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