Green People

My wife took our FujiFilm F30 point and shoot to work the other day. The staff was having an ethnic lunch so everyone dressed up (it cost us $60 for a German dirndl from a costume shop) and brought food from the ancestral homeland. Anyway Marion took some photos but was disappointed when she got [...]

sRGB. RGB Adobe, CYMK, Lab and Whiskey

Confused about the colour gamut? Who would have guessed that one of the best explanations I’ve run across so far comes from a book (delivered this morning from Amazon.com) on black and white photography. Mastering Digital Black and White by Amadou Diallo is terrific. Although a bit dated (it was published in 2007 after all) [...]

10 Great Tips to Getting Attention From the Flickr Groups

Thomas Hawk has a great blog commentary on how to get attention from the folks who view images on Flickr the photo sharing site. Here’s the link:
 
http://thomashawk.com/2008/07/top-10-tips-for-getting-attention-on.html

sRGB in Raw

I got asked (another) question I didn’t know for sure what the correct answer is during a class today in Waterloo. (Great class by the way. Thanks everyone for the positive feedback on the evaluation forms.) Anyway I got asked can you change the colour space after you’ve shot it in RAW format. The answer [...]

Why are some shooters better?

Here’s a great website that features a couple of pretty wonderful photographers.
Bobbi and Mike (Cute Alert: Not only do these two have cute names but their photos are cute too. Remember folks, this isn’t reality. It’s photography and especially wedding and portrait photography at its best.) are a couple of pretty good photographers and a [...]

I’m on SmugMug

I finally got tired of trying to get Flickr to work the way I wanted. Ever since Yahoo bought the photo-sharing site I’ve had problems (probably self-inflicted) setting it up the way I wanted it to look. I tried again to set up a new site but the conflict with the existing site just drove [...]

BIG Printers

I’m considering buying a large-format printer. Don’t know yet whether I’ve got the guts to buy a printer that will print on 17″ wide paper or limit (Can you hear the thinking going on here? As I’d be limiting myself if I went smaller.) got one that printed on 13″ media. The two contenders are [...]

Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition 2008

 

What a great day on Sunday to walkabout the Toronto Outdoor Art show. Lots of really good photography on display. Everything from one guys fabulous panorama of downtown Toronto (taken with a D3 and stitched together to lots of 4×5 work and even some pinhole camera work (which was very good). The pretty [...]

Which camera should I buy?

Some people buy DSLR cameras that are way too complex for them. It isn’t that they couldn’t learn the camera if they so desired. It’s more that they don’t want to. Having sufficient funds to buy a professional quality cameras doesn’t necessarily include having sufficient interest or desire to learn how to run the darn [...]

Don’t give up

We had a great class last night. There were about 10 people. The class was on the Nikon D-300. It became clear to me that most folks there knew their cameras and had picked the D-300 because it is a professional camera. There are no automatic modes on the D-300. In other words, you can’t [...]