Comments for Rob Van Petten https://www.robvanpetten.com Mon, 12 Dec 2022 20:09:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Comment on Beauty by Rick Horan https://www.robvanpetten.com/2014/01/13/beauty/#comment-4479 Sun, 09 Apr 2017 21:20:31 +0000 http://www.robvanpetten.com/?p=1757#comment-4479 Wonderful work!

]]> Comment on Seeing the Light.co by admin https://www.robvanpetten.com/2015/10/13/seeing-the-light-co/#comment-2164 Thu, 19 Nov 2015 06:34:47 +0000 http://www.robvanpetten.com/?p=2293#comment-2164 In reply to Rajnish.

Yes I did have a chance to check it out and talk to the originators of the company. Quite a novel little camera. There are a number of very ingenious features about this camera that are going to be fun to use. Then big seller for me was the terrific image quality. These are big 52mb files that look great. I’ll be writing more about this very soon. Nice to hear from you Rajnish.

]]> Comment on Seeing the Light.co by Rajnish https://www.robvanpetten.com/2015/10/13/seeing-the-light-co/#comment-2163 Thu, 19 Nov 2015 05:53:26 +0000 http://www.robvanpetten.com/?p=2293#comment-2163 Amazing.

Did you check this out?

]]> Comment on Seeing the Light.co by admin https://www.robvanpetten.com/2015/10/13/seeing-the-light-co/#comment-2153 Thu, 15 Oct 2015 11:45:33 +0000 http://www.robvanpetten.com/?p=2293#comment-2153 Hi Gary – I’m glad to hear I still have some credibility. This is a revolutionary design. The true test will be how the photo shooting public supports this as a design concept. I think we have already seen the tidal shift in accepting mobile device cameras as the popular mode of picture taking. Now we have a very high quality version of a convenient and current mode camera. The image quality to me is the key. The 52mb RAW, Tif and jpeg options and the image quality I saw was impressive.

The explanation of the lens treatment I got from Rajiv Laroia was that an additional step of refinement has been applied to these lenses which renders them much higher resolution than the standard cell phone treatment for a minimal amount of cost.

When I get an L16 in my hands and test it under real life conditions, I’ll make my evaluation. But from what I saw, I think it’s an ingenious design and for me – It’s all about the image quality.

Nice to hear from you Gary.

]]> Comment on Seeing the Light.co by Gary Strader https://www.robvanpetten.com/2015/10/13/seeing-the-light-co/#comment-2152 Thu, 15 Oct 2015 03:04:32 +0000 http://www.robvanpetten.com/?p=2293#comment-2152 Rob, I am flammoxed! I am thinking I just need to go ahead and sell my Nikon Gear, lights and all, and just pick up this camera, and go from there.

I would have laughed at this if it came to me in an email from someone I did not know, but coming from you it has credibility and this sounds like the reinvention of the camera.

Gary

]]> Comment on In Print by admin https://www.robvanpetten.com/2014/01/13/in-print/#comment-2148 Tue, 22 Sep 2015 11:28:33 +0000 http://www.robvanpetten.com/?p=1755#comment-2148 Thank you Andre.

]]> Comment on In Print by Andre https://www.robvanpetten.com/2014/01/13/in-print/#comment-2147 Tue, 22 Sep 2015 01:01:08 +0000 http://www.robvanpetten.com/?p=1755#comment-2147 Great shots/ prints!

]]> Comment on Welcome to the New And Improved… by Cathy Hayt https://www.robvanpetten.com/2015/07/25/welcome-to-the-new-and-improved/#comment-2145 Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:18:03 +0000 http://www.robvanpetten.com/?p=2090#comment-2145 In reply to admin.

You’re fortunate to have access to talented, professional drone flyers. I’ve been crashing my practice device with abandon. (That was NOT my drone that crashed at the US Open.) It is hard to be patient when I want to see from above NOW. If this doesn’t work out, maybe I can train some hawks…

]]> Comment on Welcome to the New And Improved… by admin https://www.robvanpetten.com/2015/07/25/welcome-to-the-new-and-improved/#comment-2144 Mon, 24 Aug 2015 13:15:09 +0000 http://www.robvanpetten.com/?p=2090#comment-2144 Yes the sky is wide open. (Did Tom Petty say that?) It’s very exciting to have eyes that fly. There is also a lot of skill involved in flying and controlling drones. It’s a specialty all it’s own. I tried 3 different types myself and decided to take advantage of an offer from 2 pros. In the video I showed you the drones are operated by Jerry Bogossian and Michael Farias who work through Look Book Media Studio. They do drone shooting for a variety of purposes and wanted to apply their skills to fashion shooting. That’s how we teamed up. Jerry’s wife Carine is a photographer/producer and works with me on fashion related projects. We had a good amount of pre-production discussion of shots and scouted the area very carefully. Insurance was the biggest consideration by the location owners. But it did work flawlessly thanks to the skill and experience of these two droner operators. We shot wifi to an iPad so it was pretty easy to direct to shots. Kind of like balancing plates in the air. They are a little noisy and create a fair amount of turbulence so that’s a consideration in close shots. Good luck with this and love to see what you shoot. I have a great arial shot of the location which I may be able to post here. Let me try to find it.

]]> Comment on Welcome to the New And Improved… by Cathy Hayt https://www.robvanpetten.com/2015/07/25/welcome-to-the-new-and-improved/#comment-2143 Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:30:13 +0000 http://www.robvanpetten.com/?p=2090#comment-2143 In reply to admin.

Got very excited imagining all the possibilities….. only to read about the restrictions around airports. (The neighborhood I want to shoot is within 2 miles of a very small airport.) Spoke with a film student this weekend who told me that one can clear drone flights with the airport. Yay!

Planning on ordering a “practice drone” today – as I did not grow up with an xbox controller in my hands. So glad you suggested this. It would have never occurred to me. (Loving the new blog so far!)

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