Okay, so I am a bit of a software snob. I can’t help it. I come from the “right before computers were cool” generation. My first experience with a computer was looking up the Dewey Decimal system on the library computer in High School. Then after flirting with a few PCs in the public lab while writing a few last minute papers for English Lit I moved on to my first Mac in the art lab. After that, there was only one true love in my life. The Apple! … [Read more...]
Review: Young At Heart
October 27, 2008 By 1 Comment
While preparing dinner at my kitchen counter the other day, I saw a commercial for an Eagles concert at the local Hard Rock indian casino. I immediately conjured a visual of what they looked like back in the seventies, when I was in high school and listened to their music. (which I still do, and which my kids grew up listening to on my car radio set to classic rock and NPR.) I glanced up from my chopping block fully expecting to see long hair and an attitude, and there on the TV screen … [Read more...]
The Big Mean Folder Machine
October 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment
It seems that I spend half my life trying to manage the myriad of files and folders I create as I work through versions and edits of websites, images, content. It is something I have learned to do always, everytime, even if I am facing a deadline. Neglecting to organize fiies means that even an hour later I may not be able to figure which was the version we liked the best or be able to reinstall the latst version of a website after a catastrophe. The Big Mean Folder Machine by publicspace.net … [Read more...]
Complete Guide To The Nikon D300 By Thom Hogan
September 22, 2008 By 1 Comment
On User Manuals, Digital Books, Travel, The Importance of eBooks and The Foresight of Thom Hogan I like physical books. By that I mean I like a book I can hold in my hand, feel the texture, and maybe even revel in the smell of the paper and the ink. I like to consume well-done images that inspire or instruct. I like books that open themselves flat and allow me to look at them without having to hold down both sides of the tight binding of a signature in the book without being … [Read more...]
ImageWell
February 28, 2008 By 4 Comments
Free is good for about anything! A well-made, extremely usable, and still free application is incredible! Check out Xtralean's website and navigate to IMAGEWELL. First of all it's available in fifteen different languages and…but what does it do, you ask? … [Read more...]
Green Volcano’s Photon
February 7, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Green Volcano has announced Photon 1.0.2, a digital image viewing and sorting application for Mac OS X. Photon has an intuitive interface based upon a stacks analogy to allow the user to quickly scan through large sets of high-resolution images. Photon can load images either from a hard disk or from a memory card. … [Read more...]
Rawker: Keeping It Simple.
January 21, 2008 By Leave a Comment
A friend recently received his new Nikon D300 camera, and as soon as he had a battery charged he went out picture taking and shot his images in the RAW format as was his usual practice. He stopped off in his travels at a another friend’s house to show off his new camera and to share some of the test pictures. Not satisfied with the small view on the camera back he sought to transfer the images to his friend's Mac computer. … [Read more...]
Managing Your Photographic Workflow with Photoshop Lightroom
January 1, 2008 By 1 Comment
Rocky Nook was founded in 2006 in Santa Barbara, California, and is closely associated with dpunkt.verlag in Germany. Rocky Nook is associated with, and releases books, through O'Reilly Media Company, hence the distribution through the O'Reilly address. Rocky Nook specializes in books on digital photography, imaging, and workflow. Their stated goal is "to support creativity, and improve the quality and efficiency of photographic work". The writers chosen by Rocky Nook are … [Read more...]
Elgato Systems’ EyeTV Hybrid
December 28, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I like to watch TV in bed at night. Sometimes I like to record what I am watching, but this involves getting out of bed, putting a tape in the recorder and getting back in bed. Usually I have to open a new tape by somehow ripping off the cellophane that has been adhered to the tape pack by static electricity (a force often stronger than I am), and by the time I have the tape in the recorder I've missed the first few minutes of what I wanted to record anyway. … [Read more...]
The HDRI Handbook: High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers and CG Artists by Christian Bloch
December 5, 2007 By 1 Comment
Film has never been able to capture the dynamic range of reality, and trying to achieve that result has been the goal of photographers and chemists, and then later lens and film designers, since the early beginnings of the photographic process. But digital imaging has brought us to the possibility of producing images that contain a higher dynamic range than is possible with any type of film. With digital imaging and the proper techniques it is now possible to produce a dynamic range in an … [Read more...]
