OK, doing a little more apres-ski photography this afternoon and this odd scene came up. The real accomplishment of the weekend, though, was a thorough revamping of my website using the LRB Portfolio plugin for Lightroom. It has a few limitations — I wouldn’t want to do a huge site on it, and there’s a [...]
Since a painful arm injury three months ago, I’ve discovered the joys of Windows Speech Recognition—a built in program in Microsoft’s Vista operating system. My arm still hasn’t healed—the hazards of a lifetime of keyboard work—but even when it does I will probably continue to dictate to the computer. It’s wonderful to run the computer [...]
I’ve been wanting to try my hand at a panoramic photograph for a while, but was under the impression — mistaken, it seems — that the process is complicated. It’s not, at least in my ancient copy of Photoshop Elements 2.0. The shot above was stitched together in about 17 seconds from three handheld photos [...]
Working with Lightroom for the last couple of days has been quite an inspiration. Unlike the ungainly Photoshop, Lightroom is actually designed with photographers in mind and is practically as easy to use as Google Picasa. The great thing is that Lightroom offers localized adjustments without going through all of the pain of creating layer [...]
After a couple days of hard thinking, I’ve decided to keep the Pentax K20D and the 16-50/2.8 zoom. The autofocus, after some practice, actually isn’t as bad as I first thought (though it’s a lot slower than Canon). But overall I love the camera, for its handling, quality feel, and great images. I also spent [...]
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