HDR Training Bundles

by Michael on May 7, 2013

For all previous customers I have a final drop dead date of May 31st.

If the new files are not live by May 31st then I will refund your original purchase price IN FULL!…. and you still get all future training for free.

I actually expect that I’ll have the training live before the end of month, but I’VE BEEN IN THE Emergency Room AND HOSPITAL THREE TIMES in the last two weeks.  The good news is doctors are finally getting proper tests and blood work to get to the root of the problem.

GEAR FOR SALE:

I’m looking to turn some gear so I’m BUNDLING the following gear sales with access to the HDR Training Series.  If you buy ANY of the following gear than you (and only you) will get access to the HDR for REAL ESTATE video series which wholesales for $500.

If you don’t need the following gear, but refer me to a buyer than I will pay you 10% of the purchase price to you.  Make sure you tell the buyer to tell me who referred them to me!!!!

I can email pictures of the gear upon request…. PayPal or VISA/MasterCard

1.  Canon 70-200mm f/4L USM offered at $549 (includes $500 HDR Training Series).

2.  Canon T4i Body Only offered at $549 (includes $500 HDR Training Series).

SOLD – 3.  Canon 580EX II Speedlite offered at $419 (includes $500 HDR Training Series).

SOLD – 4.  Rokinon 35mm f/1.4 Manual Focus and fits NIKON MOUNT (with focus confirmation chip) lens for $495 (includes $500 HDR Training Series).

5.  Sigma SD14 + Battery Grip - priced at $495 (includes $500 HDR Training Series).

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CALL FOR IMAGES

by Michael on April 16, 2013

This post is targeted at all those that have already signed up and have paid to be in my beta program.

If you have a bracket or two of a scene/room that you are having difficulty editing, then send them my way.  Send all the shots taken from that scene even if you think you over bracketed.  ALL shots… and you know what I mean if you are student.

One of the things I’ll be doing shortly after releasing the new training videos is setting up a secure facebook group so questions can be posed by beta members and then either myself or other students can answer in a private setting.  Also, I want to showcase some of the user submitted brackets.  I would do this in form of screen capture training videos so that not only you, but other students know how I would attack the issues specific to your room or scene that you submitted to me.  When you consider that I have shot well over 1400 properties, I have likely faced the same issues you are frustrated with.

The benefit to you is I’ll send you the final edited Photoshop file with layers intact via YouSendit.com for you to download and you can tweak it further yourself.  You are free to use it as you wish regardless if it is a client shoot or for your own portfolio.

Send RAW files only!

Send them via mail to:

Michael James
P.O. BOX 1878
Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459

Send files burned to a DVD.  If you send a thumb drive then you’ll need to cover shipping for its return back to you.  Also, be sure to let me know what email you used if you paid via PayPal so I can confirm you are in fact a paid student. If you paid via Visa/MC then let me know your email for confirmation.

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The good news about my health is I think I have finally found a doctor capable of helping me.  http://towncenterwellness.com/ The guy is off the charts and an expert in non-traditional medicine.  More on that journey months from now…

The bad news is that I have been in the Emergency Room twice in the last two weeks.  Both for severe chest pains and abdominal pains.  Both times my EKG and blood tests came back that it was non-life threatening from a heart perspective.  But something is obviously going on and very wrong here.  I only have 5-6 hours of energy a day so thank god my shooting style is shoot fast and edit fast because otherwise I could not even finish shoots I’ve had on the books for weeks and I was able to shoot and edit thru these health issues.  It did not however, leave me any extra energy to finish off the training recently.

This little bit of cushion of time coming up has allowed me to cancel a bunch of VRBO shoots of what would have been new clients I had no relationship with.  While they are disappointed, it is tough luck for them.  I need to finish off the training videos and get this live ASAP.  And that leads into the next topic which is Adobe just released a beta version of LightRoom.  LightRoom 5.

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Unlike the drastic changes from LightRoom 3 to LightRoom 4 main sliders… this is not the case with LightRoom 5.  I do appreciate the new features of LR5, but my pipeline will not deviate from LR4 and personally… I see no reason to upgrade quickly myself personally.  None of the new features improve my pipeline.

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Final Training Update

March 11, 2013

OK.  Final blog post relating to the availability of the training.  The next training related post will be links to the URL / Website where I’ll be hosting the videos. UPDATE: I got the correct Mac Mini and then installed updates and Adobe Master Collection.  I had to wrestle with a few private vendors and [...]

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Old School HDR via Original 5D

February 15, 2013

Some of you who are close to me know my D3 died just as I was trying to finish up the HDR for Real Estate series.  Under 200K actuations… dead.  Rated for 300,000 is the D3, but they don’t warranty that. So. I had an adaptor for G series lenses and attached it to a [...]

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New workflow using multiple speedlites to be covered

February 15, 2013

Those who know me know I work with camera, tripod and on camera speedlight (used for specific problems). This weekend (February 16th and 17th), I’ll be recording me on camera showing a new workflow using multiple speedlites.  These videos will of course be provided to anyone that signed up for my HDR for Real Estate [...]

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Update to training release 2.0

February 15, 2013

PROBLEM: I was just days away from releasing HDR for Real Estate Photography 2.0 when my MacPro died (discussed earlier).  I opted to just finish off the series on a Mac Mini given how far the specs have come.  That would have been done by today had I not had the WORST experience with Amazon.com [...]

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Failed MacPro causes delay to HDR training release

February 4, 2013

I’ve recorded all segments of the video training series.  I even had 80% of the recordings edited and was a day away from rendering the video to H.264 for final uploading and launching the training.  Then on Friday February 1st my MacPro of 5yrs would not reboot after the house got hit with a power [...]

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2013 is here and so shall HDR Video Training 2.0

January 8, 2013

I first put together a series of videos in 2010 that offered a glimpse at my HDR post production workflow.  Since then I have changed my post pipeline in a few ways, both in LightRoom 4 given the new sliders and in Photoshop as well. Finally those will be revealed.  This month! (To be clear, [...]

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Nikon D600 with additional shutter release cable for Promote Control

October 2, 2012

I’ll be brief.  This is a follow-up video from the prior showing how slow the D600 was responding to using only the USB connction via the Promote Control. I bought the promote control branded shutter release cable that is used with the D600 and the good news is now things are far faster.  This is [...]

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Nikon D600 and Promote Control for HDR

September 20, 2012

I got my Nikon D600 today (more to come on the camera once I have tested it against my D3). Below is just a quick video showing that the Nikon D600 is working with the Promote Control.  However, using USB only as a connection is very slow, so I have the Promote Control shutter release [...]

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