Wednesday, June 23, 2010

New Equipment - By Zacuto

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Yesterday we recently added a new item to our rental list of equipment for in-studio or location. The new Zacuto Z-Finder with Gorilla plate. With new upcoming cameras with built in HD video capability from Canon and Nikon, photographers have been slowly moving into the video realm with little to no additional investment. However, for those who already own a capable HDSLR camera, viewing/capturing video footage off the LCD screen is difficult to focus when you broad daylight or when the depth of field is thin. So that's where the Zacuto Z-Finder fits in, helping videographers critically focus when the subject/camera moves.
If you are interested in taking video with your HDSLR and want to take the Z-Finder for a spin, you can now rent it here at TYE Studios.
You will see and capture HDSLR video in a way never thought possible.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Favorite Place

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Earlier this week, USPS had delivered to us a surprise envelope from Google.com. As the letter stated, "Between December 1 and February 28, Tye Studios was one of the most popular local business on Google", and because of this, we are now recognized as a "Favorite Place on Google".

In the coming weeks, we will be updating our google.com/favoriteplaces, and you can follow us by using your smartphone camera and scanning the QR code on the image provided above.

We thank all those who have visited our website and given us this recognition with Google.com.

Fine Art Weekend

PhotobucketLast weekend was Fine Art at it's best. Two days of instruction, critique and photoshop, and one full day of shooting instudio and outside in the summer heat in our very own nature preserve. We had head instructor/commercial photographer, Peter Langone lead the group, along with commercial photographer, Marcus King for our post production portion of the workshop. The results of the class were amazing to say the least, and we look forward to future workshops with the two instructors in the coming months.

For more info on our upcoming classes, please refer to our workshops section on our website @ www.tyestudios.com.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Summer 2010

With Memorial Weekend over, the official start of Summer 2010 is here. We at TYE Studios had the honor and privilege to have one of the original "HEAVY METAL" bands, IRON MAIDEN, come to our studio on Sunday and shoot their latest upcoming album cover and tour images. Most of the images were shot on a massive green screen backdrop in Studio A, and on top of 3 stages that we constructed earlier that morning.

The photographer flew in from the U.K. last Friday, to photograph the band. John McMurtrie is a music, stage, and tour photographer who has shot some legendary bands/artists in his career. On his comp card you will see photos he has taken of Ozzy Osbourne, Slash, Green Day, Dave Grohl, Linkin Park, Metallica, Tom Morello and more, for covers of today's top music magazines. For more info on John and his work, please visit his website at: www.picturedesk.co.uk.

Below is 1 of 8 sketched drawings of Iron Maiden's images that will be used on their cover/tour. We look forward to their latest album and want to thank John, his production team, and of course, IRON MAIDEN, for visiting TYE Studios.

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