Some time ago I was at Nikon Service centre in Montreal, waiting to fix my old FE2 film camera. In the waiting hall there were various prints, promoting Nikon cameras. Another guy was waiting his turn, holding his Nikon D300. Having nothing else to do, we were both looking at the images on the wall, [...]
Here’s another confusing topic. Old landscape favourites Neutral Density filters. These are filters that allow you to reduce the amount of light on the entire image (Full ND) or only a portion (ND Grads). So far, so good. ALl photographers refer to exposure in terms of f-stops. This is pretty much a standard way of [...]
Another old time favourite confusion. DPI and PPI. Totally different items that have been used to refer to the same thing so often, that they have become synonyms. DPI means Dots Per Inch. It’s related to the capacity of the printer. The more the better, but has nothing to do whatsoever with the image size [...]
I’ll try and post some simple hints that helped me make sense of a lot of non-standardized information that relates to the technical aspects of photography. I don’t know why simple things are made over-complicated by referring to them in different ways, using different terms etc. I recently saw on a photo forum a user [...]
Just in case anyone is visiting this website/blog using Google Chrome… please stop. Chrome is the only browser that does not support colour management and instead choses to apply his own personal “artistic vision”.This mainly involves crazy saturation and contrast. For all its good uses, Chrome is worthless for looking at images so use any [...]
With all the hype around overpriced luxurious aluminium gadgets/toys (yes, I bought an Ipad 2 but more on that later), I find it refreshing to see some products that do what they claim, without forcing you to break the bank. I was looking for a simple office printer to replace my all-in-one, and my mainly [...]
As I said in previous posts, I finally challenged myself to go on a photo trip for a week and use only film. For someone who started on digital domain, it’s a significant change. I am still on location, so I have no ideea how the images turned out, but I wanted to write about [...]
I just realized that I spent over 35 hours of shooting at around 0 Celsius and did not have to worry about battery life. Incredible. I still have horror memories from Florence where at a mere 5 degrees, the canon battery would die after a series of long exposures. Had to keep two extra batteries [...]
Just when you think you finally understand what’s going on with all this stuff that’s supposed to help you with your work, it manages to surprise you yet again! So, lesson for today: Web templates created in Lightroom are not saved with the catalog. Everything else seems to be, but the web templates are located [...]
