Free Photography Blog Handbook
Free Photoshelter Photography Blog Handbook. A must-read for all blogging photographers.
EOS E1 plug-in and new courses at the Bangkok Photo School
Canon conversion software for Final Cut Pro and new Bangkok Photo School courses announced.
My X-Rite ColorChecker Passport Review
A review of X-Rite’s Color-Checker Passport and Lightroom plug-in.
Embedding Lightroom galleries into WordPress
How to get your Lightroom images into a WordPress blog.
Tips to speed-up Lightroom
I have a backlog of hints, tips, stories and random urls to post that I haven’t yet got around to sharing with you so look out for more of these in the coming week. One of the most useful of these is for Lightroom users who may occasionally be biting the edge of their laptops [...]
Photoshelter: Embedding Galleries
Embedding slideshows from Photoshelter and the Kumbh Mela Photo Tour 2010
Lightroom: Gavin’s Greyscale Gradient V2.0
For those of you who found the Lightroom Greyscale/Grayscale gradient to be a useful tool when running Lightroom on a laptop, here’s version 2.0. Thanks to Sean Phillips for noting that the graphic needed a way to identify the end of the scale, hopefully this mirror-image graphic does that. Here are the instructions for installing [...]
Lightroom and Laptop? You need Gavin’s Greyscale Gradient
–UPDATE– Version 2 of the Lightroom Greyscale Gradient, which allows you to see the ends of the scale more easily, can be found here. –UPDATE– If you’re using Lightroom on a standard monitor then you will obviously be carefully calibrating your display every week. However, although you may also be creating a profile on your [...]
Canon Professional Network: Review of 24-70mm f/2.8 L lens
I’m currently in the UK, my first opportunity to catch up with family and friends for almost a year. It’s great to see familiar faces and I’m enjoying the opportunity to reflect on my first year living as an expat in Bangkok. It’s been a productive year, a largely successful year and with many more [...]
Adobe Lightroom 2.3 Released
Adobe have released Lightroom version 2.3. The upgrade includes several bug fixes including a memory leak that could cause Lightroom to seize up when processing files with local adjustments, which I think I’ve experienced, and rids the software of the bug that produced artifacts when processing EOS 5D II sRAW files. It also rectifies the [...]
EXIF data plugin for Word Press courtesy of a very nice man.
Christopher Ward is a very nice man. A very nice man indeed. When Matt Brandon and I were grumbling about having to type EXIF data into WordPress, Chris leapt in like the helpful, geeky Canadian that he his and offered a solution. In case you’re wondering what on earth I’m talking about, WordPress is the [...]
Canon release 5D MKII firmware fix for black dot glitch
Owners of shiny new Canon 5D MKIIs (Tewfic, David, Matt, Barry, Andrew et al, you know who you are) will want to download the fix for the camera’s black dot glitch. The Firmware update also fixes the vertical banding problem found when shooting sRAW. Canon EOS 5D MKII Firmware Download
Getting that syncing feeling
I can’t resist a gadget or a nifty technical solution. If it beeps and has lots of buttons then I’m pretty much already sold. A hefty, technical manual is a bonus although clearly, as a man, the very last thing I would ever do is read it. If it syncs information across multiple applications and [...]
Independent User Review: Canon EOS 5D MKII
My good friend and fellow professional photographer Barry Mann is the proud new owner of a Canon EOS 5D MKII and has kindly given his first impressions of the new camera. Barry runs a commercial and low-level aerial photography business in the UK and is also an accomplished travel photographer in his spare time (check [...]
Photographer’s back-up strategy
Murphy’s Law states “If it can go wrong, it will“. Gough’s Law adds that “If it can go wrong, it will, and at the worst possible time“. I shan’t labour the necessity of back-ups because most photographers are probably already acutely aware of the need to have some redundancy built-in to their workflow. However, if [...]
Tutorial: Adding GPS geodata to your image files with Lightroom and HoudahGeo
Geodata is location specific information that can help identify exactly where your images were taken. It is becoming increasingly important as image libraries and image buyers seek to identify specific locations and the inclusion of accurate geodata can enhance the perceived value of your images. Especially important to travel photographers who shoot in a variety [...]
Digital Railroad to shut up shop
I’m sorry to hear the news that Digital Railroad looks set to close. I first heard about Digital Railroad in New York in 2005 and was fortunate to meet with founder Evan Nisselson briefly before he gave a promotional talk at the Apple Store there. He struck me as a guy who would lead the [...]
Why do photographers need a web site?
Following on from the introduction to Mitchell Kanashkevich’s new blog (below), Andrew Gibson has written a list of 11 reasons every photographer needs a website or blog. Andrew will be following up this article with more information about web sites that will be useful reading to any photographers who would like to create an online [...]
Lightroom 2.1 brings performance improvements
Adobe have released version 2.1 of Lightroom and with it come a number of enhancements. As well as support for several new cameras, including the Canon 100D (Rebel XS) and Canon 50D and a few bug fixes there are claimed improvements in performance in the Library and Develop modules. Adobe claim to have fixed memory [...]
