An excellent article on keywording, which is something I struggle with in my lightroom organizational scheme.
http://rwongphoto.com/fieldreport/2007/09/photo-keywording-strategy.html
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Oct 312007
Oct 312007
Event photographers know ‘em. Fashion Photographers know ‘em.
In the world of off camera lighting they are pretty much ubiquitous.
*Everyone uses pockewizards* And until recently there wasn’t much alternative. If you wanted to fire your flashes off camera you either used a)sync cords b)optical wireless or c)pocketwizards.
Sync cords and optical wireless both have significant drawbacks. Basically if you needed to place a light wherever you need it, and have it fire regardsless of circumstances (ambient light, no line of sight for optical wireless) you needed pockewizards.
then earlier this year Elinchrom released their version of pockewizards called “Skyports”. They have a version that integrates directly with their own strobes, and one “universal” which work with any strobe.
The kicker is that they are only about 1/2 the price of the ‘wizards.
Enter RadioPoppers: (http://www.radiopopper.com/)
Still in the “vaporware” stage, their claim to fame is to bring TTL to RF transmitters. In other words a pocketwizard that preserves your flashes TTL capabilities – pretty awesome, huh? Of course they are still expensive, about the same price as the Skyports (still cheaper than ‘wizards) Now if that was it, it would still be a great entrance into the off-camera-flash-trigger world, but the radiopopper folks didn’t stop there…
They just announced that they are stripping the TTL capability of the poppers, and releasing them as a “Jr” version (don’t worry they are still keeping the TTL models) for a whopping $25 per trigger.
If these are even remotely as good as ‘wizards it will blow the whole market wide open.
This is definitely going to be an interesting year for “Strobist” folks. I’m going to wait and see how it pans out, while I suffer along with sync cables for the time being 
Oct 282007
I’ve added a new tab to my site, for galleries of current and ongoing projects. If you are an RSS reader, head over to http://www.f1point0.com and check it out!
Oct 272007
It’s been gross and rainy for the past couple of days, which gave me the opportunity to try an experiment I’ve been toying with for a while…
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Oct 252007
Nooooooo…..
Apparently a fire at the plant that should have supplied Pentax’s Li-Ion batteries has halted production, delaying the much anticipated camera release announcement from November to February.
http://news.zdnet.com/2110-9584_22-6215062.html
This is a critical blow for the already shaky Pentax (after the Hoya merger), and means they will miss the Holiday sales, as well as lose the “momentum” gained from the K10d.
It is really such a shame, and a terrible setback for a company that was aiming to do a major rebound this year. I hope they can recover enough to stay competitive against the new releases from the rest of the “big 5″
ISO is the new Megapixel.
What I mean is that when researching cameras, one cannot read more than a paragraph or two before coming across a discussion/analysis/nitpick of said cameras high-iso/noise performance. More and more it is becoming the standard by which digital cameras are judged.
And this is not a bad thing in and of itself – Low noise is a pretty much universally desired characteristic – since one can always *add* noise/grain to a clean image, but it’s much harder to get rid of it once it’s there. Ergo, clean images are better.
The problem is people get obsessed with it!
Oct 222007
Digital Photography School has just posted a fantastic collection of flickr greasemonkey scripts by Martin Grommel.
If you are a flickr user at all (even just a browser), these will improve your user experience no end. I particularly like #1, #3 and #9
And if you aren’t using firefox with greasemonkey – what’s wrong with you? go get it! now!
(for the uninitiated, greasemonkey is a firefox extension that lets you run client-side scripts that customize the appearance and whatnot of webpages that you view as well as other stuff. Probably the single most useful firefox extension out there)
Oct 202007
I have always wanted a rangefinder.
More specifically I have always wanted a small, unobtrusive, quiet, and quick camera to carry around all the time for street photography and whatever other “shots of the moment” I can come across.
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Oct 182007
found this in my daily photography links… the site of John Harrington, the guy who (literally) wrote the book on business practices for photographers.
His site, Assignment Construct gives snapshots of various photographic assignments, and he goes into great detail about the approaches, techniques, challenges and results of each one.
An invaluable learning tool for anyone dabbling in any kind of assignment based photography!
Oct 182007
Oct 162007
Chris Shepherd over at shepherdpics.com has written a great, multi-part article on matting and framing your prints.
Check it out HERE, he pretty much covers everything you could want to know from equipment to materials to techniques.
Oct 162007
I was reading THIS ARTICLE over at The Online Photographer, and it made me curious – I wonder how many photographers keep revisiting old photos, updating and re-processing them.
I know I do – I love going back to an old image with “fresh eyes”. Often I will see exactly what it needs, or even just something I want to tweak. With lightroom, this process becomes super-easy, as I just go into the history panel, save the current settings as a snapshot and then tweak away to my hearts content. If I am not happy with the outcome I know I can instantly revert back to the previous settings.
Try it – you might find an unpolished photographic gem among your old shots!
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