Bert Monroy Exhibit
Posted by on Monday, January 26, 2009 in - leave a comment
Last week Bert Monroy opened an exhibit that will run for about 3 months at the Hearst Art Gallery in Moraga, California January 17 - April 5, 2009. His work that is entirely created with the tools inside of Photoshop and Illustrator are highly detailed at amazing resolutions. • Today, Scott …
Cropped and Full Frame Sensor Confusion
Posted by on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 in - leave a comment
What does it mean by "the reach of crop" and extending your focal length? I may simply have no idea what I'm talking about but the entire idea of comparing a Full Frame sensor to a cropped APS-C sized sensor by talking about extending zoom confuses me. This comparison is usually at the top of the …
Photo Walking
Posted by on Monday, January 19, 2009 in - leave a comment
Over the holidays and after a few discussions, I have decided to completely rework how I manage my photos and took on the task of moving my entire archive into a new directory structure. As I continue to clean up and organize my 2008 Lightroom library, I came across these additional photos of the …
Online Image Editing
Posted by on Friday, January 16, 2009 in - 1 comment
I think some of the tools in these online image editors actually work better then the ones in Photoshop CS4 (example: live preview of the gradient tool). Between Photoshop Express, and the following two additional online editors, any common task could probably be done free inside a browser window …
Opening a RAW file from a New Camera in an old version of Photoshop
Posted by on Thursday, January 15, 2009 in - leave a comment
With every new camera that is released, a new RAW file is created that requires updated software support. As a result, companies like Adobe must continue to update Lightroom, Photoshop etc to provide the ability to open these images. That means, if you do not upgrade, you will not be able to open …
7 Things
Posted by on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - leave a comment
There is a chain-like blog posting happening and although everyone admits that it's kind of lame, we are still all participating. Patrick Finch past it on to John Slater (Creative Director at Mozilla), who sent it to Steven Garrity (Creative Director at silverorange), who sent it to me. • The …
How to rename the volume on a dLink DNS-323 NAS
Posted by on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 in - 1 comment
It has been years since I originally setup my DNS-323 NAS and the volume_1 and volume_2 label has always been transparent to me. With a recent format, it became incredibly frustrating that every result on Google claims that the share volume name can not be changed. • Although true, here is a … read more »
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Lens Usage Statistics
Posted by on Sunday, January 4, 2009 in - 2 comments
From a 13,500 photo sample of my 2008 Lightroom Library, I have used these lenses: • Canon 17-40L f4 - 5,751 photos • Canon 70-200L f4 IS - 4,692 photos • Canon 50mm f1.8 - 1,484 photos • Canon 100mm f2.8 - 212 photos • the rest were taken with pocket point and shoot cameras • And from …