Almost 5 years ago I wrote an article on the pros and cons of using RAW versus JPEG and why I was shooting in RAW (see RAW vs JPEG: Is Shooting RAW Format For Me?). These days the argument of using RAW versus JPEG is well… not an argument at all. Most photographers realize that shooting in RAW provides a great number of benefits and many if not all the reasons to avoid using RAW have been nullified thanks to a
An interesting encounter on Twitter got me thinking about the subject of permanence in relation to digital photography. Humorously @pogue (aka David Pogue) was noting the grammatical error in Outdoor Photographer referencing the “sense of permanency” of digital photography in books. David Pogue, a New York Times technology writer and Internet celebrity, while making light of this grammatical faux pas go
I will concede that I am overly paranoid about backing up my digital photography and it has paid off. This week I’ve been dealing with a very unpleasant experience of having a drive fail on me. See The Best of Times, The Worst of Times The drive in question that failed is my working “production” drive where I store all my files from recent photo-shoots and my Lightroom libraries. I was able to exper
The past week has been full of adventures of sort. I regretably got very sick and have been knocked out by a bad cold. I’m still fighting it off and hope that you can avoid it. The past week has passed me by like the years passing by Rip van Winkle. It seems like only yesterday that I laid down not feeling so hot. Regrettably when I did get up I ended up dealing with a catastrophic hard drive failure and am sti
I’m a bit overdue in my review of Digital Railroad and PhotoShelter… so overdue in fact my review will cover how each of these services died rather than what they offered photographers. Both PhotoShelter Collection and Digital Railroad aimed at bucking the trends of the traditional photo stock market giving more to photographers on each sale. Unfortunately for both of these companies they were not positio
Given some comments I’ve read with in my Lightroom 2 review “Adobe Lightroom 2.0 – First Impressions That Impress” and across the web I thought it would be a good idea to share some Lightroom 2 optimization tips I’ve recently found. Hopefully this information and the respective web sites this information was found on will prove to be helpful for those that have made the plunge with their
This weekend has been well for lack of a better term miserable. I’ve burned 90% of my weekend trying to figure out what has been causing some very odd behavior on my computer, as noted in my previous post Beware OS X 10.5.3 Bug That Destroys Adobe PSD Files. So what could I possibly be doing that has taken up so much of my time this weekend sorting through this mess? First based on the corruption and disappeara
This past week was an exceptionally busy week for me, but with in the cracks of free time in my schedule I found some great articles. The following are a mixture of articles from some of my favorite web sites and magazines. Enjoy! Green Photographic Papers – Graf Nature Photography Mark Graf discusses an interesting article buy Dr. Joe Zammit-Lucia on Green-In-Print, a guide to environmentally friendly choices