Mike Johnston has a four-minute video about Magnum street photographer Bruce Gilden on his site. I must have seen this before because I remember much of it but somehow I didn’t pay enough attention to what he is doing. But thanks to Mike’s little postscript, I watched amazed. Like Mike, there is no way I [...]
In PowerShell V2 CTP3 (and possibly earlier CTPs but I didn’t try it), you can add a Custom menu to the PowerShell ISE that will run your own commands. Thanks to the object model that PowerShell ISE exposes, those commands can even modify the text files open in the editor.
One of the first things I [...]
I have been playing with PowerShell a lot since V2 CTP3 was posted and will write about setting up custom menus in the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (PowerShell ISE). Before I get to that, though, I wanted to say something about the profiles.
In particular: $profile and what you get back from its default ToString() method.
On [...]
Believe it or not, I made use of the 5D Mark II’s face-detection autofocus mode last night. We invited our next-door neighbor over for dinner and after I had been taking some pictures at the candle-lit table, she decided that someone should take a picture of me. I knew she wouldn’t be able to get [...]
The snow fell all night. It was light snow, and it was dry and powdery with wind. I guess we got an additional two or three inches overnight and it has been snowing most of the afternoon. This time, though, it’s the more normal big dendritic snow that I am used to. It seems that’s [...]
I don’t like one of the big advantages of DNG–carrying the XMP metadata in the DNG file rather than as a "sidecar" .xmp file that sits alongside the CR2 (or NEF or TIFF or JPEG or whatever format you work with).
I don’t deny that it is more robust: no problems when copying files from one [...]
Since we were not able to get the car out the neighborhood, we walked to Crossroads Mall today to pick up a few groceries. Dawn said that I should show her these pictures in July and she will think they’re pretty. Right now, they’re just depressing.
We woke up to a beautiful morning with some low fog over the lake and the sun shining through it as it rose over the mountains. Don’t forget that you can click on the photo above to see a larger size or other photos in the gallery. Late in the afternoon we decided to try [...]
The snow that we thought would come yesterday made it here today. We ended up with six-and-a-half inches and the temperature was down to 24 degrees Fahrenheit by the time the snow stopped. The forecast doesn’t call for us to get above freezing for days.
Strange weather indeed for the normally mild Puget Sound. Rest of [...]
The skies threatened, and so did the weathermen, but we seem to be in a snow shadow here in Bellevue so all we got were cloudy skies and a bit of snow that was still hanging around after Sunday night.
Lightroom 2.2 is out. What a relief to be able to go back to my normal workflow and not have to run through the DNG Converter first.
I have always had problems taking sharp pictures of the Cascade mountains from our neighborhood. The autofocus always seem to miss just a bit and the viewfinder on my previous cameras was never big enough to let me effectively focus manually.
But Live View changes all that.
I just set my 70-200L f4 to manual focus, engaged [...]
The first snow of the winter has started to fall. Forecasts call for cold weather like we haven’t seen in years for the next several days. Should be fun.
Wondering how to make use of the microadjustment feature of your new Canon 5D Mark II or Nikon D700? Michael Tapes has put together the LensAlign. I have used his WhiBal for years and, based on the reviews from Michael Reichmann and the guys at Imaging Resource, it looks like a solid, accurate tool. There [...]
I love this camera. I don’t hear that much on the online forums and that speaks volumes to me about the state of high-end DSLRs. For several years, Canon would release new cameras that were not only leaps and bounds ahead of anything else you could buy, but were significant improvements over the models they [...]