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ADCSee The DAM

I have been a PC user for quite a long time and have tried a massive amount of software out there to manage, archive, watermark, edit, manipulate my photos. I event make my slideshows using ACDSee.
Almost all the major photo editing software out there have their PC and Mac version, except for one: ACDSee.
I discovered ACDSee using the free version and could not use anything else. ACDSee is light weight and fast to load. It manages your digital photos very easily and the interface is friendly.

I since the upgraded to the Pro version and it was by far my best purchase on the Net.

Notice that while advanced photo editing software as LR, CS family or Aperture … are very powerful for photo editing, ADCSee is very capable of “standard” jobs.

ACDSe also come with a very powerful set of photo editing tools as well.

I can watermark, resize or rotate a whole folder with thousands of photos in one go. I was very surprised that ACDSee can open new digital raw format from new d-DLR while other advanced software need updates and upgrades.

The beauty is that it doesn’t require a lot of computer power so you can still do something else while ACDSee does its stuffs.

When I switched to Mac two years ago, the only thing that make me look back sometimes was the lack of ACDSee Mac version.

Guess what ? ADCSee just released the Mac version of their primary photo editing and digital asset management (DAM) software. It is now available for both platforms PC and Mac and I can’t be any happier.

Check out  a FREE Trial of ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 NOW, You’ll love it and will wonder how you could manage without it !


ACDSee Photo Manager 2009

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Haley Roach – Chic & Glams Underground

I “discovered” Haley during the Miss Top Model Finals and I must say that I immediately noticed her in the crowd of models.

Haley has a special look and style that make her stand out from the competition. She is fun and easy going.

Once again I drag a model out to  the cold, I think this shoot was the coldest in the series, but Haley played the game and I’d say that it’s worth it as the images speak fro themselves.

Check this space back, more to come, especially the video of the shoot on Nomad TV.

Model: Haley Roach

MUA: Melissa Mullard

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Tamsin. The Model Mayhem II

As mentioned in a previous post, Tamsin is the featured model for today’s article.

This session was from last Saturday, the day before Miss Top Model.

I have been so busy these last days that I couldn’t maintain my Model session and editing within 3 days as per my normal timing. I hope Tamsin would,’t mind too much.

We had quite a good time shooting together in the ANU areas, Tamsin, Vincent, my brother and I.  I will be posing the behind the scence video (video by Vincent) on the Nomad Photography TV soon.

Enjoy the photos and stay tuned for the next episode featuring Tamsin.

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Amanda Choong reloaded.

I’ve been quite busy shooting, day and night, and had barely time to edit the photos from the shoot with Amanda (from this post).

Amanda is a young UNI student who seriously desires to get involved in the modeling industry.

I’m very happy the way she gets involved and followed my direction during the shoot. She’s still young and yet very talented, no doubt she’ll get her look into the fashion industry.

Next model to feature this wall will be Tamsin Starick (reloaded from this post).

Here come the photos.
Model: Amanda Choong
MUA: Kirsten Pawlicki

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Soph Ea, the liberal Geisha

I met Soph-Ea through a friend, who is a friend of a friend who has a friend on FaceBook who knows her …

It’s a circle of photographers and models and it’s very normal that we end up having a shoot together.

Soph-Ea took a 2,5 hours drive, from Ingleburn, down to Canberra for this shoot. Wow. That’s a real model :).

We had a good time and the shoot took place … in the backyard of the 104.7 radio station.

A special thank to Ashleigh from the radio who let us use a really nice and big dead tree for the shoot.

PS: Soph-Ea did her own make up and the outfit is hand made by her sister.

Good job Soph-Ea

Here come some images.

Stay tuned as the video of the shoot will be released shortly.

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Tamsin. The Model Mayhem

I had a shoot this afternoon with Tamsin and I must say that I was blown away by the model.

As I always do, I met Tamsin during the week for a meet and greet chat about the shoot and what I had in mind.

Tamsin appeared as a very reserved young lady, almost shy, but willing to do her best for the shoot.

Well, I knew a bit about Tamsin before meeting her and knew what she was capable of but I’d say that I was blown away at the photo shoot.

I am a full time flash shooter and use several flashguns intensively. With Tamsin, I didn’t need the light. She was the light.

The session started a bit in a mess with the flashguns not getting in sync with the radio poppers and also, once again, it was an outdoor shot and it was freezing.

Hummm… It took me a while to set the lights up, while Tamsin was standing in a light business suit (that was the theme of the shoot, by the way) and I had to warm up the session before the model got frozen.

Anyway, here are a few images of the afternoon shoot (more to come soon).

Model: Tamsin Starick

MUA: Kirsten Pawlicki

Photo by Thierry
Photo by Thierry

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