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Disney Trip

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On our trip I took two cameras. The Canon S95 and 50D with a 50mm 1.8 prime lens. The following are a few pictures I took. Don’t worry I’ll spare you the entire trip. … Read entire article »

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Canon S95 Macro

Pictures taken with the Canon S95 and edited in Aperture 3. Most of the settings were the automatically generated by the camera in program mode with the exception of one. The (TV) Time Value picture. The Shutter was set to 1/1600 but, all other settings were auto. Although I did work some magic in Aperture 3 with each picture, I must say this is one nice point and shoot camera. By the way, the pictures here are high resolution and work well as desktop backgrounds.   … Read entire article »

Display calibration

“Why do my prints look different from my computer screen?” “After I’m done editing my pictures on my computer, my prints always turn out too dark!” Screen or Display Calibration is often over-looked when we use our computers to edit pictures. What looks great in iPhoto or Aperture doesn’t always mean your prints will be as good looking. This is because most of us never take the time to calibrate our monitors or screens. In fairness, the bright, rich colors you get by the default setting do look good, but they’re not realistic when it comes to using those setting to edit digital photography. In OSX, an often over-looked tool to correct this is found in System … Read entire article »

Lion Black and White Aperture 3 Preset

Both Images are 1920×1080 and can be saved as Desktop backgrounds. Download Lion Black and White Download Lion Black and White Aperture 3 Preset. To install this preset open Aperture 3 and select the adjustments tab. In the Presets drop down menu, select “edit Presets”. From her you will see a new window that has a small gear icon in the lower left corner. Clicking on this will give you the option needed to import this preset. … Read entire article »

Removing Metadata with iPhoto 11

Like with iPhoto 9 and earlier, one of the easiest ways to remove unwanted Metadata from your JEPG’s was to use the mail feature within iPhoto. The trick was to make sure that “actual size” was selected  and simply drag the picture to the desktop after Mail prepared it. You could then close the Mail window leaving the picture you want  (minus the metadata) on your desktop. See my “How to remove JPEG metadata in apple osx” post for more. However, with iPhoto 11 by default  the pictures you select to mail are now mailed from iPhoto 11 itself and not Mail. To fix this so the above trick still works, you’ll need to go … Read entire article »

Cool trick for disabling AGC on the Canon 7D

Video by onelonedork. To see more check out his youtube channel here. www.youtube.com/user/onelonedork What he’s done is load a MP3 player with a 19k tone ( witch is basically inaudible ) and has it run the length of the video. The mixer is used to mix evenly one of the Left or right stereo channels with the other being his lapel mic. Scene the camera’s AGC will be the only one that can hear the 19k tone the other channel sound nice and clean as the camera adjusts the Automatic Gain Control to a set level. Nice. … Read entire article »

Lunar Eclipse at Winter Solstice

Well it’s just after 12:30am 12/21/2010 here in Austin, Tx and what should be an awesome, once-in-a-life-time event is getting crashed by some heavy cloud cover. At least where Im at. Hopefully the clouds will move on soon. I’ll post more as the morning goes on. 2:24am Looks like tonight is a bust, to many clouds. At least there’s another in 2014 but unfortunately the next Lunar Eclipse at Winter Solstice is another 84 years out. Congratulations to anyone who got photo’s of the Eclipse tonight. … Read entire article »

Aperture Values Explained

Excellent video explaining Aperture values. Check it out. … Read entire article »

Macro Extension Tube Kit from Fotodiox

  Recently I ordered a Macro Extension Kit from Fotodiox. The five piece Kit is made up of 3 extension rings and 2 mounts. This is an inexpensive kit that can greatly improve your existing Canon lens macro capability, but not with out some braw backs. The main drawback, this kit is non powered. So IS and auto focus are out of the picture (pun intended). You do not have the ability to control your aperture with this kit as well. Also this kit will throw your camera off balance. It is awkward as a hand held accessory add-on. However, with a coast of $11, the price on this kit easily helps me ignore those detriments. So … Read entire article »

Long Exposure Photography

Here’s a new one from the median facing south on Hwy 360 at the Bridge. RAW, taken with a Canon 50D using the Canon 10-22 lens at 10mm. Time 10sec, ISO 200 aperture 3.5 and exposure +2 ev. post editing done with Aperture 3. Black and White taken from the same spot but using 22mm of the same lens. ISO was still at 200 and time was also at 10sec but the aperture was at f/10. 0 ev I’ve also included the 360 B&W.AdjustmentPresets for this one. … Read entire article »

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