My Muse

Ella decided to pose for me today. Got some nice shots of her.

Beauty is where you see it

Here are a couple of photos I have recently taken. Was wndering through a field of weeds and found this one that caught my attention. Not sure if I’m going to add it to the website or not…. Any thoughts?

Time for shooting

I have to admit, I haven’t found any time recently to go and shoot much of anything. Hell, I haven’t even packed a camera with me. Younwouldnthink with the concept of daily practice that I tweeted about a while ago, tht it would get out shooting more….. Nope not a chance. And once again I find an excellent article to give me a good swift kick in the ass to get out there more.

http://zite.to/oDSbCY

Hope you enjoy it and it inspires you to get out and shoot.

Camera Shortages?

The disaster in Japan is an incredible tragedy and our hearts go out to the people of Japan. Been reading about how the devastation in one part of the country is impacting the entire country. Even heard rumours that the Honda production facility here in Canada is down to half production due to parts shortages from Japan.

Here is an interesting article from USA Today about how the disaster in Japan is impacting the camera and camera accesory market here in North America.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-04-27-camera-shortages_n.htm

Will the smartphone camera kill the camera?

Funny, I remember posting here qte awhile ago about how smartphone cameras were increasing in popularity and were becoming used more than DSLRs. Rolling Stone magazine posted an article showing popularity of cameras on Flickr and guess whatus climbing up the rankings fast? The dreaded iphone. Have a read here: http://bit.ly/jW4GgN

iPad Connection kit woes

well, I went out and bought the camera connection kit, thinking it would be a help. Plugged in both the 1D MkIII and the 20D with a cable and all the photos on them showed up perfectly. In fact I was pleased to see all my RAW files in thumbnails. That surprised me since everything I read said that I could transfer RAW files but couldn’t view them in the photo app. So I rushed and bought PiRAWnha in order to adjust my RAW files on the iPad and save them as jpeg. Plugging in a SD card from my wife’s camera was no issue either. The only issue I’m having is one that everyone says I shouldn’t have…… Viewing photos and video on a thumb drive. I add mov files and jpegs and it seems that my lovely iPad won’t see any of them, specially if the jpeg has been edited and all the exif data is gone. Jpegs right from the camera transferred over to the thumb drive no issue, can see them all. and this after formatting the thumb drive FAT32 and creating a DCIM folder as everyone on the net says I should.
Anyone got any other bright ideas???

Update

Happy New Year! Hope you had a great holiday, made your resolutions and have did your best to try and keep them so far.
I had a great Christmas spending it with family up north. Just finishing processing all the holiday photos I took. If I find anything really good I’ll post it up and let you know.

MK

Ottawa Inline Skate Festival

Had alot of fun shooting the OTtawa Inline Skate Festival with the new 1DMkIII.  Performed flawlessly and the images turned out really well. THe autofocus performed terrific considering it was my first time really using AI Servo mode .  Put a couple of the better images in the Sports section

Upgrades

Well, after doing some serious work on my desktop I finally plunged in a upgraded from Adobe CS2 to CS4.  The computer was getting slow and needed a serious cleaning and surgery done to the registry. It now feels almost brand new. As for CS4, I’m really looking forward to it with some new adjustments in camera RAW and Bridge seems really nice to improve workflow. Lots of playing in post now.

And just to top things off, I finally pulled the trigger and picked up a Canon 1D Mark III camera body. Have only shot a couple dozen photos through it more to play with settings more than anything; but damn, is the autofocus fast!  I’m also looing forward to playing with this new toy, just need some time to shoot. I was waffling between the 1Ds and and 1D, and overall I think this will be a good choice. I don’t need 5000+ pixel photos that are 25 – 35 Mb in Raw PER PHOTO! and besides how bigdo you really want your nose to be on a 22 inch monitor?  The 1D MkIII is giving me approx 13 Mb RAw files and still 50 MB+  per tiff file.  More than adequate for most printing.

Looking forward to playing around with both, now just to find the time!

Lilacs

Have a look in flowers, as I was out working with the macro lense again.