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We are a small company with big ideas. Our innovative products were designed out of necessity by Ferrell McCollough, professional photographer and owner of our company. Starting out as a nature photographer, Ferrell often faced the common challenge of the elements when shooting outdoors. Dissatisfied with the current products on the market, he set out to create his own solutions. FM Photography was born from these solutions and is going strong after 5 years in business.
Over those five years, Ferrell’s photography and our products have evolved into the success they are today.
Please browse through our product line and check out Ferrell’s Blog site at
wwwbeforethecoffee.com - a MUST SEE!
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Check out ShutterBug Magazine’s September, 2008 article written about Ferrell and his HDR knowledge and techniques. It includes several great pics to demonstrate this amazing treatment.
There is a link below this introduction to continue the article.
Great Stuff!
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The Long Ranger; With HDR Photography, What You Can See Is Now What You Can Get
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Barry Tanenbaum, September, 2008
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In the early days of digital imaging, we were promised much. Suppliers, manufacturers, photo writers, and early-adopter photographers talked about how digital would allow us do more with photographs. We’d be able to see them instantly, send them quickly, and, most important to the serious-minded among us, control them creatively. Digital cameras and the digital process would allow us to do things we could never do before like change the ISO in mid-shoot. We heard that we’d be able to capture images that were once impossible.
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Ferrell created this HDR image of the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC, from seven images at 1 EV spacing. The perspective is due to his use of a 10.5mm fisheye lens. “I needed seven images to capture the details of the towers in the bright sun and the ceiling of the shaded gazebo.”
All Photos © 2008, Ferrell McCollough, All Rights Reserved
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Introducing...
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Ferrell’s new book is about the new and exciting techniques in hdr photography.
Learn how to get started with hdr and progress into expert status with this excellent how to manual loaded with more pictures than pages making it an excellent coffee table book as well.
Learn the latest technique in hdr that Ferrell has pioneered and calls “Flash Merging”.
“Complete Guide to HDR Digital Photography” was released on May 8, 2008!
You can order at Amazon.com or get a personalized and signed copy from us for $20.00 + shipping!
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Learn more on Ferrell’s Blogsite, www.beforethecoffee.com . He has added several highly detailed HDR Tutorials including pics from the book and some of his latest work. There is also a link to several of his best pics on Flickr.
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It’s an exciting time for me as the culmination of 2 years of HDR field testing and processing is released in my new book: “Complete Guide to HDR Digital Photography”. The book is written for photographers who want to learn HDR and then progress to advanced techniques in the field and computer processing. Categories of scenes are explained to help the photographer recognize when a single image will suffice verses the need for an expanded image set to capture an extremely high dynamic range.
Many HDR topics are explained in detail including camera setup, HDR software comparison, advanced image analysis, post-processing HDR and single-image tone mapping. Sections of the book also include HDR for architecture and panorama photography. The HDR book also includes a newly introduced technique of using flash with HDR, called Flash Merging.
“Complete Guide to HDR Digital Photography” also includes 5 contributing HDR artists. The artists are internationally recognized for their work in HDR and can be seen on the Flickr photo site. They include the international traveler Trey Ratcliff, Asmundur Thorkelsson from Iceland, Valerio Pandolfi from Italy, John Adams from Florida, and Domingo Leiva from Spain.
For those that are interested, Flash Merging is done with a single camera strobe used off camera. I use the Nikon SB800 and move around the scene taking exposures with the strobe held in a different position. The image set is then blended using “Exposure Blending” in Photomatix. Of course the book goes into all the details on Flash Merging but you can at least start experimenting with Photomatix. You are welcome to use my coupon code for a 15% discount on the Photomatix site, “beforethecoffee”
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Check This Out !!! Straight from the Editor’s Mouth....
Just thought you might like to know that your book is #1 on BookScan, which is the database that keeps track of all books sold in the US. Your book is outselling every other photography book in the country right now!!!
Woohoo!!!!!!!
:)
Haley Pritchard
Photography Books, Editor
Lark Books
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Ferrell made the cover AND January pic of the 2008 NIKON WORLD Calendar. Just one of his most recent accomplishments. Congratulations!!!
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