Category Archives: Photography

Captain Obvious Looks at Lenses

2006-12-23 – 10:09

There are a lot of camera lenses out there! For those with a specific type of specialized photographic interest, like taking ultra-sharp pictures of bugs and flowers, and who have an unlimited budget, it’s pretty easy to pick lenses because any of the major manufacturers certainly have something designed especially for them.
On the other hand, […]

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Sharp is as sharp does

2006-12-06 – 17:18

Of course my subject here is pretty cute, but I’m disappointed by either the focus or the lack of sharpness. I hadn’t used my 50mm 1.8 lens in a while and so this was just playing a little bit with it. In addition to forgetting to set a reasonable white balance for these difficult and […]

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Aperture

2006-11-22 – 14:02

There are plenty of reviews of Aperture around the web already, but I’ve commented on Aperture, Lightroom Beta, and six-color channel mixing in the past, so I’ll just add my two cents: Aperture 1.5 is really, really easy to jump right in and use. It has 6-color adjustments, one of the cool Lightroom Beta features […]

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Hunting with a video camera

2006-09-11 – 07:13

Bow season has started here in Georgia. I don’t have a bow, but did get the opportunity to spend a few hours up in a deer stand with a nice digital camcorder sporting a long lens for those close-up shots.
The good news: it was a really pleasant morning to be sitting outside while the day […]

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Seashore Open Source Image Editor

2006-01-28 – 09:58

Thanks to a post on the DPReview Forums, I’ve got a link to an Open Source image editor for Mac OS X. According to their website, Seashore is substantially based on the GIMP, but clearly doesn’t include all of the GIMP’s features. What it does offer is very smooth user interaction, something the GIMP just […]

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