Digital Workflow E-book updated
‘Digital Workflow for the Working Photographer’ has been completely updated to take account of the changes in the most recent versions of Aperture 3 and Lightrrom 3, and considerably expanded. Although this e-book is not intended as a definitive guide to all the features of Aperture and Lightroom I have now included much greater detail [...]
Lightroom 3 Announced
Adobe has announced that Lightroom3 is now available. I have been working off and on with the Beta version which offered soe improvements over the version 2 Lightrrom and thee have now been rolled out into the new product. Major improvements seem to be: Speed improvements all arond but particularly on import and thumbnail scrolling [...]
Aperture 3 update
Since returning from the Winter Olympics I have gradually been getting up-to-date with some issues that have been on the back burner. Not the least is the update to my Workflow e-book to take account of Apple’s latest version of it’s flagship image processing and management tool Apple Aperture. (A further update will be issued [...]
Cropping can make a sale
I was recently asked for images of Pronghorn Antelope running in a herd. A couple of years ago I had led a field trip to Colorado, principally to photograph the wild horses, but we did manage to get some decent Pronghorn images as well. One of the main problems , with all the wildlife in [...]
Making a ‘signature’ brush to digitally sign your images
I am regularly asked how to easily make a signature brush or a watermark for images. To some extent the answer depends on what software you are using to output the images and what the image purpose is to be. If you are using Apple’s Aperture or Adobe’s Lightroom you can opt to have a [...]
It’s almost over – for now!
I’ve almost reached the end of my first Olympic’s as a Photo Manager and it comes as something of a relief. I think we got most things right, and those we didn’t get right the first time round we changed to make it better for the photographers the next time. I’ve mentioned it before but [...]
Nikon announces dates to bring Snow Leopard compatibility for software
Nikon has at last (and far later than they should) announced dates to update some software packages to provide full compatibility with Mac OS 10.6 – Snow Leopard: Capture NX2 – End of December 2009 Camera Control Pro 2 – End of November 2009 Transfer – End of January 2010 ViewNX – End of January [...]
Veolia Wildlife Photographer of Year
Results are now out for the 2009 edition of the British Natural History Museum’s wildlife photographer of the year competition sponsored by Veolia. This is the world’s top competition for nature and wildlife photographers and has been won in the past by some of the top names in the field. To view a selection of [...]
Nikon D3 with movie mode – Nikon announces the D3s
Nikon has today announced the launch of the D3s. The new version of the top of the line D3 boasts a Movie mode with HD quality (1280 x 720) pixel at 24 fps The roving freelance can now shoot both stills and news clips with the same camera and have access to the full range [...]
Nikon upgrades offer compatability with Snow Leopard
Nikon has announced that it has a series of upgrades for several of it’s imaging software packages. Click on the links below to upgrade your software. The upgrade includes not only compatibility with Snow Leopard (OS 10.6) but also offers support for the D300S Capture NX and Capture NX2: A compatible version is now available [...]
Another new member of staff
Another puppy has joined the crew creating mayhem in the Llewellyn office. Pip is our newest Springer Spaniel, now nine weeks old and has already found the cable to Jean’s Macbook irresistable and has chewed right through it!
Mac Snow Leopard Issues
I’ve been using Mac OS10.6, Snow Leopard, for a little over a week now and have encountered few problems. Areas that have required attention have been: Print drivers – Although Snow Leopard is supposed to automatically update drivers on any installed printers this has not been happening on existing drivers. Updating the divers for my [...]
Blue-eyed Snake
Here in British Columbia we don’t have a wide variety of snake species, and the Gulf Islands where I live are almost entirely dominated by a single species the Garter Snake and an occasional glimse of the rare Sharp-tailed Snake. Although Garter Snakes come in a wide variety of colours their eyes are not normally [...]
Macro Spiders
As autumn approaches gardens are full of a wide variety of spiders feeding on the last glut of flying insects, making fascinating macro subjects. Small apertures are required to render sufficient depth of field often requiring supplemental flash to provide sufficient light on even the brightest of days – the closer your lens to the [...]
Nikon DSLR upgrades and replacement lenses
D300s DSLR Nikon has announced a major upgrade to it’s D300 DSLR, now designated the D300s. The upgraded body has the 12.3 megapixel sensor but retains it’s former DX format, Shooting speed has been increased to 7 frames per second with the standard battery pack making this body even more attractive as a backup or [...]
Beware of joining Picture Stock
I recently received an email inviting me to join a photo agency called Picture Stock. Wary of the wording in this ‘invitation’ I decided, out of curiosity to take a look. The email described this invitation as a ‘phenomenal business opportunity’ offering not only to handle my image collection, but also indicating I could get [...]
Correction, manipulation or just cheating?
With the tools available to todays digital photographers it is incredibly easy to alter the content of a photo in ways that render it not just more esthetically pleasing, but to alter the meaning of the photo as well. Today we hear yet another case where an unscrupulous photographer has passed off images that have [...]
Photomechanic final release version 4.6.1
As reported in the last blog post Camerabits has now released the final version of Photomechanic 4.6.1. Licensed users eligible for a free upgrade can download from http://www.camerabits.com/site/downloads.html or through the update function from withing Photomechanic. Photomechnic is also available as a 30 day trial from the Cmera Bits web site for new users.
Photomechanic latest release
My favourite image browser, sorter and captioning program Photomechanic by www.camerabits.com has been released as 4.6.1 Beta version 8 This fixes a number of bugs that were present in the earlier versions the most notable for Mac users being: Fixed an issue where performing multiple sequential Ingests to the same destination folder would open the [...]
Images for free
” We are a charity organization and I am sure you would like to support us” “I only want to put the image on my web site, not going to publish it” ” I can’t pay you but I’ll give you a credit which will drive LOADS of traffic to your web site” “If you [...]
Nevada Images
New images are now available through the on-line database from the Hover Dam, showing the extremely low water levels in Lake Mead (while Las Vegas continues to expand requiring ever more water and power) Also added are a few climbing photos from Red Rock Canyon although the day these were takes it was extremely cold, [...]
E-Book: Digital Workflow for the Working Photographer
After several launch date changes I have finally managed to publish mt first E-book, Digital Workflow for the Working Photographer. This E-book describes in detail the various steps that each of my images undergoes on it’s journey from a RAW file to the finished image, prepared for it’s ultimate use. It is not intended as [...]
Photomechanic 4.6 now available
As many of you know much of my workflow centres around use of Photomechanic (www.camerabits.com) A new upgrade was launched today, although I have been using the beta version for the last couple of weeks. Major changes include: Live Ingest. Embed GPS coordinates in photos. New Upload templates such as Secure FTP, Amazon S3, ExposureManager, [...]
Lightpainting
This weekend sees a break from sports shooting. After a very successful one-on-one workshop on Friday the night sky was very dark, cloudless and a myriad of bright stars. Inspired by the work of sports photographer Dave Black and his use of a technique called lightpainting I decided to give this a go myself and, [...]