Alex Robinson

So no new photos this time, I’ll post some snaps from my west coast trip last weekend sooner or later. In the mean time I’ve had the opportunity to do some test prints on the new Fujifilm Pearl paper and I have to say I’m very impressed. This came about by chance as I was going to catch up with a friend who has just started work at a different lab and they’d only just got some of the paper in and loaded it into a magazine. At the moment they only have it in 12″ rolls and it’s a bit more expensive than standard matte/gloss but is really worth the extra dollars. Finish-wise, it’s similar to the Kodak metallic paper, maybe slightly less “metallic” though. Colours look much the same as normal gloss but certain tones really pop out and anything metallic in photographs looks amazing. I’m sure blue skies and water will look amazing too.

On another interesting note, I’ve just bought a copy of a very cool little program called PTLens which is a useful little tool for doing lens distortion and perspective corrections. It delivers a much more accurate result than Photoshop’s lens correction tool and is calibrated for each camera/lens/focal length. What’s more, it can be launched as an external editor in Lightroom thus eliminating the need to keep Photoshop open at the same time. For a very reasonable $25 USD it’s a worthy purchase for anyone requiring lens corrections.

As for other things, I’m shooting a wedding later today and have a car shoot and some calendars to do tomorrow, should be good.

And for those of you who’ve found my website though the Selwyn libraries bookmark, thanks for visiting! If you’re interested in purchasing a print they’re $150 for a 12×18″ print on glossy paper or $170 on pearl paper. I can also supply them professionally matted and framed in a black, wooden frame with a white mat for an extra $164. (All prices NZD)