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Nov14 Introducing: Focus Point Central

Posted by Brian Tetrault • November 14th, 2012 at 3:39 pm • permalink

Introducing: Focus Point Central

Well, it’s been a few months since I’ve posted anything here, but for very good reason–I launched a new company!

Along with my good friends Norm Brzycki and Meg Rodney, and with a great partnership with LensProToGo, we’ve developed and launched Focus Point Central!

Focus Point Central is an online Photography and Videography resource center for anybody and everybody. We have content for beginners to pros from some of the most amazing and prominent professionals out there–and that list is growing every day! We’ve also teamed up with some great partners like Westcott, Lensbaby, The Slanted Lens and more. We truly believe that there is something for everybody: we have Workshops which will be in person and live online; On Demand where you can find piles of free and paid content–everything from quick tip videos to written tutorials–all to learn at your own pace and on your own time; and a Marketplace where we’ll be offering things like books and DVDs from our instructors. Coming soon: Memberships where you’ll be able to sign up to get access to premium content and discounts across our site.

I’d like to personally invite you to visit FocusPointCentral.com with the hopes that you’ll learn from these amazing photographers and videographers. And as always, if you have suggestions on content you’d like to see or workshops you’d like us to offer please don’t hesitate to let us know!

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Apr03 Upcoming workshop at CDIA – Speedlights

Posted by Brian Tetrault • April 3rd, 2012 at 6:35 pm • permalink

I’m doing a Speedlight workshop at CDIA in Waltham on Saturday April 21st! Sign up now! Here’s the info:

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Upcoming workshop at CDIA Speedlights

Advanced speedlights (Nikon & Canon)

When: Saturday, April 21, 2012
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Where: Waltham MA Campus
Instructor: Brian Tetrault
Cost: $99 CDIA; BU / $125 Public

Are you not as comfortable using speedlights as you’d like to be? In this workshop, we’ll take the second-guessing out of these sometimes confusing flash units and learn how to approach their use in several situational examples. Through in-class shooting exercises, we’ll see the difference between working with flash inside and outside as the primary and secondary light source.

Main topics we will cover:
- Understanding the terminology – sync speed, curtain sync, i-TTL/ETTL, and more
- Speedlight as the primary light source
- Speedlight as the secondary light source (fill)
- Working with an off-camera speedlight
- Working with multiple speedlights
- Thinking creatively – overpowering the sun, using modifiers, and more

Prerequisites: Intermediate to advanced DSLR understanding, beginner to intermediate speedlight understanding

Class requirements: notebook & pen, Nikon or Canon DSLR w/memory card and lens(es), minimum of 1 Nikon or Canon speedlight, extra AA batteries for speedlight(s)

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 You can register online by clicking here: http://www.cdiabu.com/workshop-registration/
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Mar06 Lightroom 4 released

Posted by Brian Tetrault • March 6th, 2012 at 11:15 am • permalink

Lightroom 4 releasedLightroom 4 was released officially for HALF THE PRICE! So far not super different from the Beta–but you can download a free 30 day trial here: http://adobe.ly/A7GQv0–let me know what you think! Make sure to keep an eye on my Quicktips as I’ll be starting to do videos using Lightroom 4!

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Jan10 Lightroom 4 Beta

Posted by Brian Tetrault • January 10th, 2012 at 7:37 am • permalink

It’s here! Anyone can now download the Lightroom 4 Beta. I have not yet played around with it at all but will be posting my comments/videos as soon as I can. Here is a couple new features that Adobe has highlighted:

  • Highlight and shadow recovery brings out all the detail that your camera captures in dark shadows and bright highlights.
  • Photo book creation with easy-to-use elegant templates.
  • Location-based organization lets you find and group images by location, assign locations to images, and display data from GPS-enabled cameras.
  • White balance brush to refine and adjust white balance in specific areas of your images.
  • Additional local editing controls let you adjust noise reduction and remove moiré in targeted areas of your images.
  • Extended video support for organizing, viewing, and making adjustments and edits to video clips.
  • Easy video publishing lets you edit and share video clips on Facebook and Flickr®.
  • Soft proofing to preview how an image will look when printed with color-managed printers.
  • Email directly from Lightroom using the email account of your choice.
They had Julieanne Kost do an intro video and some ‘digging deeper’ videos with some of the other features. You can find all of those on the YouTube channel by clicking here.

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