Why didn’t anyone tell me…

I was actually writing this up for the photo mailing list at work, but thought it might be interesting to others here. I have the 18-200 f/4.blah DX VR Nikkor, and while it’s a great one-lens-all-day lens, the images themselves are disappointing to me, requiring a trip through PTLens (or lensfix) to correct out the [...]

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WordPress needed a little dumbing down but now I can blog from the phone. Now nobody is safe!

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As you can see, I use Aperture quite a bit. As with anything you use on a regular basis, you learn its ins and outs and start thinking about how you’d like it to be better. “Vacuuming” the database made Aperture many orders of magnitude faster. I was honestly shocked when I realized how slow [...]

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One of my photography related hobbies is the creation of panoramas. These are composed of many normal pictures rolled into one flattened picture, which can then be turned into something else like a QTVR or whatever you want. But when you take 7 pictures as RAW and then convert and stitch them into their largest [...]

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I’m doing more negative tagging within Aperture, this time it’s for my pre-digital days. The quality varies greatly from project to project, some being bad JPG scans of prints for which I have no negatives, some being medium format scans from a Nikon CoolScan 8000 (which I highly suggest), some being 35mm scans from either [...]

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I should preface this with my opinion so people can see why I’m doing this. I think the iPhone is an incredible device. I wanted a video iPod and my older phone broke. What better way to combine batteries? I picked up the iPhone and in many ways it’s changed how I think of mobile [...]

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The iPhone isn’t perfect. It’s convenient in some ways. It’s shiny. It’s got that “new device” feel still. Things are responsive and smooth. But there are a couple things the plain old iPod still has over it.  I have edited this post, having finally found the iPhone manual online and discovered you can squeeze the [...]

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Yesterday I had to drive to work – a somewhat occasional occurrance. First of all I had to spend $55 on gas, which was new to me. As my friend pointed out, when was the last time I filled up? My estimate was more than 3 weeks ago. My daily commute is less than 10 [...]

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So I finally got the tagging completed, the rating completed, and the database of 32,000 some finished images (after I pulled out all the QTVR source files and duplicates) is ready to do something with it. What to do, what to do. The first thing that came to mind was to post these things online. [...]

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