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Cliff Mautner, Wedding Photographer, and Nikon Legend Behind the Lens joins host Scott Sheppard to share tips and anecdotes of his 27 years as a professional photographer, transition into his new Haddonfield studio, and some details of his upcoming events and training classes. Cliff talks about recently completing an exciting project for "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" along with fellow photographer Susan Stripling which will be airing soon on ABC.

Cliff has instructed various seminars and workshops the past few years and recently announced the dates for his Spring ‘09 sessions - Lighting and Skillset Bootcamp. - April 21-23, 2009 held in his Haddonfield, NJ studio. He will also be hosting many sessions at the upcoming WPPI Wedding & Portrait Photographers International, where he is also judging the print competition and participating in the "Plus" conferences.

Cliff and Scott discuss the latest Nikon news and more importantly shares his vision and passion for his work. Cliff explains how important the comaraderie aspect is among his students and fellow wedding photographers.

To stay up to date on Cliff’s latest visit his website at: http://www.cmphotography.com and his blog at: http://cliffmautner.typepad.com/

The McNamara Report on Inside Digital Photo with Michael J. McNamara
This week’s topic: Editorial Photos - Fact? Fiction? or Fantasy?

Mike joins us in celebrating the 3 year anniversay of the "McNamara Report" Blog first on Popphoto.com and now available at: http://www.mcnamarareport.com. Mike and Scott discuss some key issues in editorial and journalistic photography today. Most photographers rely on the wonders of Photoshop to edit their images so they are aesthetically pleasing, but at what point does editing a photograph change the overall story or instance. If we accept that lines of reality or truth in imagery are crossed daily, how do we judge where that line is drawn. Mike explores examples in a range of photo genres.

Listen in on the McNamara Report segment or get more photo insights and analysis on a variety of topics from Mike McNamara at: http://www.mcnamarareport.com

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Diederik van Heyningan, Manager & Photographer, Lightworkx Studio joins host Scott Sheppard for a lively discussion on their commercial studio work based in Christchurch, New Zealand. Diederik discusses some of the challenges but also some of the amazing opportunities and variety of work they have mastered based in a fairly remote location on the South Island. Diederik explains they were one of the first digital production studios and have won numerous color awards for their work. Lightworkx is a studio and also do their post-production work in-house. Diederik shares some tips about how they were able to use a locally developed color proofing system called "AbsoluteProof" that has, in his opinion, solved their color management and contract/remote proofing problems.

For more information about Lightworkx and their work visit: http://www.lightworkx.com or to check out their proofing solution, AbsoluteProof, visit http://www.absolute-proof.com/

The McNamara Report on Inside Digital Photo with Michael J. McNamara
This week’s topic: Another RAW camera format? How are we going to handle it?

It happened again, just when most photographers had been lulled into thinking we had seen the last new RAW file format. But noooo! Nikon surprised us by giving birth to a new one called .NRW that’s found exclusively in the high-level COOLPIX P6000 (This hot $500 compact boasts a 13.5MP CCD, 28-112mm f/2.7-5.9 stabilized zoom lens, built-in GPS, and up to ISO 6400.)Unfortunately, the Nikon engineers forgot something when they created this new RAW format—and it’s called Mac compatibility! Guess we should have seen that coming with a file extension called .NRW (Nikon Raw Windows).
So while photographers with PC’s running Microsoft Vista (and nothing prior to Vista) will be able to open and adjust .NRW files, the rest of the world is out of luck—unless popular RAW workflow programs like Apple’s Aperture, Adobe RAW converter, and Adobe’s Lightroom come to the rescue as they have in the past.

Read more insights and analysis from Mike McNamara on: http://www.mcnamarareport.com

Oliver Breitenbach, CEO, Boinx Software joins Inside Digital Photo for an update on their latest release of FotoMagico 2.5, the digital storytelling applications built for photographers. Oliver explains that at it’s most basic level is to create slideshows, but in the hands of creatives, wedding photographers, and journalists FotoMagico quickly generates very compelling short clips that incorporate your images, high-end transitions, synchronizes them to audio, and other effects which can be exported in a range of formats from web video to high definition Blu-ray format. Winner of multiple Apple Design Awards, FotoMagico currently runs only on Apple Mac OS leveraging the best development tools available on the platform that deliver an intuitive drag-n-drop interface.

For more information and to download a demo version today visit: http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/

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