Digital Photo Storage While Traveling

April 24, 2011

If you shoot digitally in RAW format, the amount of memory taken by your pictures can quickly add up with today’s high resolution cameras. The RAW files on my full-frame Canon 5D II (21MP) take up about 30 megabytes of memory each which means that a normal day’s worth of shooting for me (a few [...]

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Printing Costs for the HP Designjet Z3200

April 16, 2011

Since acquiring my HP printer over a year ago, I’ve made hundreds of prints and gone through multiple rolls of paper. This gives me a pretty big data set on which to compute my actual printing costs and the numbers work out to approximately $1.76 per square foot. This cost can be broken down into [...]

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Stitching with Tilt Shift Lenses to Create High Resolution Images

March 7, 2011

With digital SLRs it has become very easy to combine or stitch multiple pictures together to create high resolution images. For example, the picture below shows a composite image of the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco stitched together from three source images. The three individual source files were taken with my Canon 5D mk [...]

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Christmas Rat Photograph in BrownTrout Calendar

December 29, 2010

I just found out that my photograph of my pet rat Salty was used for the 2011 rat calendar published by BrownTrout. My wife discovered this by accident as she was looking for a rat calendar and noticed that Mr. December looked awfully familiar. I didn’t know about this use of the picture because it [...]

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My Photography and Computer Equipment

December 24, 2010

Cameras Currently I’m using Canon 5D Mark II bodies. The 5D is a full-frame digital camera with 21MP sensor. It’s a great travel camera as it has fantastic image quality but a relatively small body (at least compared to the professional 1D bodies). The only drawback I see is the relatively poor autofocus performance. Lenses [...]

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Hasselblad H4D Review

July 11, 2010

Recently, I attended a Hasselblad workshop which focused on their H-system of digital medium format cameras. During the workshop we were given access to the newest H4D cameras and a comprehensive set of lenses. Two of the workshop organizers, Oliver Klink and Stephen Johnson, were nature photographers who personally shot with the Hasselblad. We also [...]

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HP Z3200 connection problems

July 9, 2010

For a while, I’ve started to notice that my HP Z3200 would have connection problems with my computer (Mac Pro hooked up via USB). For example, after a period of non-use, I would not be able to use the HP printer utility to access the paper calibration menu. This printer control panel item would simply [...]

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Happy Cow

June 19, 2010

This previous weekend, I was at Point Reyes shooting as part of a Hasselblad workshop where I was able to use the new H4D camera. This camera is literally a beast weighing 5 to 10 lbs, depending on the lens you have mounted, and accepts a variety of digital backs ranging from 40-60 MP. (fyi [...]

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Hong Kong Attractions

May 15, 2010

I have been to Hong Kong several times and each visit has been a wonderful experience. One of my favorite things to do is to simply get lost in the city and walk around and explore without any plan at all (Hong Kong is very safe). There are many unique little stores, restaurants, temples, and [...]

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Lightroom 3 Lens Correction

April 27, 2010

On Adobe’s blog, they just posted that Lightroom 3 and Adobe camera raw are going to have lens correction. I repeat, LR3 and camera raw is going to get lens correction. This is going to be a huge benefit for my workflow process. Up to this point, I’ve been using another raw converter, DxO Optics [...]

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