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Worldwide Photo Walking
Posted by on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 in - leave a comment
Group photo walking is becoming a fairly popular event and Scott Kelby has decided to organize a photo walk all around the world on the morning of August 23rd. • It just so happens that I'll be in Vancouver that weekend and will be joining World Vision Photographer David duChemin for this 2 hour …
Photo Management Workflow
Posted by on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 in - 1 comment
JPGs, DNGs, CR2s, PSDs all make up a quickly growing collection of digital photos. With every week that goes by, my photo collection increases and photo management is becoming an issue. • I am not big on keywords; Maybe a couple here and there but usually very few. This has required me to keep a …
Expose Right
Posted by on Saturday, August 18, 2007 in
Maximizing S/N Ratio in Digital Photography — The Luminous Landscape. • “ • A 12 bit image is capable of recording 4,096 (2^12) discrete tonal values. One would think that therefore each F/Stop of the 5 stop range would be able to record some 850 (4096 / 5) of these steps. But, alas, this is …
JPG vs RAW Advantages
Posted by on Monday, August 6, 2007 in - leave a comment
When available, I shoot RAW instead of JPG. It's something I just feel I should be doing but when asked, I can't really explain why or convince someone that the extra post processing work is worth it. • I have started watching "From Camera to Print", a 6 and a half hour video with fine art …
The Photographer's Right
Posted by on Monday, May 14, 2007 in - leave a comment
I like to take photos but sometimes I wonder if I should or shouldn't be taking a photo of a particular subject. It's a debatable question but something I think about. Especially when traveling. • I'm not a lawyer but I have attempted to understand what is fair and what should be avoided. As far …
Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography
Posted by on Friday, January 5, 2007 in
I found this paragraph from Stephen Johnson's new book interesting. • “ • The very high resolution 1-gigabyte panoramics could not even be opened in Photoshop when we started to make them. On my second panoramic outing in late 1995, I stumbled onto a width limit in Photoshop; it wouldn't open …
Shooting The Moon
Posted by on Friday, October 13, 2006 in
One of the first things I wanted to do after buying my first SLR camera was to get a decent photo of the moon. This past week (10 months later), I had a chance to borrow a friends 300mm lens and give it a try. • Setup on a tripod, mirror lockup and a shutter release cable produced a small …
Support for the Digital Negative
Posted by on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 in
It only takes a few cameras to start using the Digital Negative (DNG) Raw format for other companies to follow. • “ • March 8, 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that Hasselblad and Leica Camera AG are among the first camera manufacturers to commit to support the …
JPG vs RAW vs TIFF
Posted by on Monday, June 21, 2004 in
Every digital camera that I know of saves images as .JPG files but some (usually the larger more expensive) models also support uncompressed file formats like RAW or TIF. Are they really that much better then a JPG saved at a large resolution with a good compression ratio? • World traveler Ken …