Joel from Fetigraphy Platinum working with the models:

Jett De Lighte modelling for Citizen Reign Latex Couture

If you have access to a copy of Studio Brides (vol24) check out our photos being used full page for Cyan Reign (featuring Violet Vex) on pg95 and also for Cyan again on pg92 this time with Holly modelling a black wedding gown.

Don’t forget about our Christmas day photography special that’s on, where you can get over 50% off a family portrait on Christmas day while all your family are together. Call me on 0410504757 or use the contact page on this site to email me.

$200 for a  1/2 hr shoot 3high res files provided and an 6x9in print – North-side Brisbane & Redcliffe

$250 for a 1/2 hr shoot 3high res files provided and an 6x9in print – South-side Brisbane (limits apply)

Very limited bookings available so get in quickly to secure your time with us now.

So many of our friends are starting to get used to using Google+ to share content they find while doing searches so here at Mark Greenmantle Photography we’re taking the focus off the cameras for the night to get some of that work done too.

It’s not something I have quite got my head around just yet, as I really think in a much more visual way and while I try to get into the social networking mind space I usually find interesting stuff about photography online and totally lose track of my networking while I learn about something I can use in shoots. There’s good reason my wife Violet is creative director at Greenmantle Studios!! hehe

That said, I’ve installed plug ins on this site that SHOULD allow you to log in here and comment using either your facebook credentials OR now using your G+ account. It’s all run using APIs on both the Facebook servers and Google servers and other than entering my name email date of birth and blood sample of my first born, it seems pretty safe to use. There’s no freaky stuff going on I swear! Our business page is here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/107808593874684013817/   It’s not the prettiest URL and we hope that Google will soon update the business pages management but that is us – so go and add us there and say hello. I will be posting more images there again soon. The soon to come rollout of G+ logos on this site means you can recommend any page you see it on to Google Plus with one click. Plug ins to make that happen have been installed but nothing is showing as yet. If you want to do me a huge favor, please feel free to post a link to http://www.greenmantle.biz/ from your Google+ accounts and from Twitter.

Now then, for the budding shooters who watch this space, some TECH PRON for you (yes that was a deliberate typo – it is a PG rated site mkay) – I harp on all the time about monitor calibration and how damn important it is that your screen is showing you the right colours. This is especially important when doing photographic retouching!  Well, Dell have currently at under $700, for a 27inch monitor with an ultra wide gamut showing 99% AdobeRGB / IPS / 2560×1440 pixel resolution!  Now I use an older 24in Dell ultrasharp as my main monitor and it’s been VERY stable for colour – only a slight shift over four months between calibrations (it DOES have power filtered through a UPS), but the new monitors are bigger, better and cheaper. At that rate you could buy six of these for the price of one Eizo of almost the same size…. makes you think doesn’t it!  Do yourself a favour, ditch the gamer screen that makes your images far too bright to match to prints, get one of these and a Color Spyder Pro and use the savings on high quality glass for your camera. The monitors are available here: http://accessories.ap.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=au&cs=aubsd1&l=en&s=bsd&sku=210-31399&redirect=1

add it to your xmas wish list kids!

Keep your eyes peeled for copies of the current Queensland Brides Magazine, you’ll see our shot of Violet in blue for Cyan Reign on page 173.  More images to be published soon in Studio Brides and we’ll let you know other publications as they go to press.

Violet Vex models for Cyan Reign in Queensland Brides Photo by Mark Greenmantle

Violet was published in four magazines this last month, including the aforementioned two publications, but also in Tattoo Downunder and we’re told also in a hot rod magazine we have yet to see. If you get to see either of the first two magazines and then look at the tattoo and hot rod mags, you can be sure to notice that we took quite some time seamlessly retouching out her gorgeous ink for the bridal work. It’s just another service we can offer to clients here.

For the photographers out there watching our work, take a look at image files you may have passed over through 2005 – 2008 for reasons of low light image noise rejection and if shot in RAW format at the time, push them through the current version of Adobe Lightroom again now. Here is an image that was one of about 30 shots taken with lightning from a storm in December 2005. At the time I was only using RAW Shooter Pro by Pixmantec which later became Adobe Lightroom. RAW Shooter Pro did not provide the best noise reduction algorithms and I had all but forgotten about the other files in this chase that had been rejected. Last week I pulled the folder open anew in the current Lightroom version and was very happy to see just how many more files yielded excellent print candidates.