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front-focussing ? back-focussing ? how about doh-focussing ?

Really, this obsession with MTF charts is undoubtedly unhealthy for the wallet but it can also be so all-consuming it confuses solving the most obvious of problems. After…

aperture 1.5.1 hack

It’s update time, which means hacking the minimum requirements again. More details on how to actually change the numbers are in the Aperture 1.5 post and comments, but…

aperture 1.5 chroma blur: pros and cons

Aperture seems to have a pretty good set of defaults in the main – it certainly doesn’t get in my way for simple things, but recently I’d been…

aperture 1.5 colour tool

I am completely obsessed with the colour tool in the latest point release of {Aperture}, but it’s got to the point where I’m not sure if I like…

aperture 1.5 hack

It seems as though the minimum system requirements are still in force in {Aperture} 1.5, which means that although 1.25GHz PowerBooks are supported, my dual 867GHz MDD isn’t,…

photography techniques (mostly flash)

I’ve not done much flash work as I never really liked the look it gave the subject when I first tried it, but that was on film (20+…

why not to delete blurred photos

Being a total {Aperture} convert, I’ve been amusing (?) myself over the summer trying to get 18,000 or so photos into something like a useable state, but being…

four free aperture themes

Update 07nov06: Note that the download here is only for Aperture versions up to (and including) 1.1.2 The location of the themes is different for Aperture 1.5, so…

aperture iptc autocomplete

If you are using {Aperture} and are going through a large collection of older images it’s very nice being able to add IPTC Copyright entries during import. The…

minimalist gallery

After far too long leaving my gallery languishing, it’s now been reborn in a very bare fashion: using (at the moment) {Lightroom} to caption and edit, and the…

infrared basketball

Whilst I’m in a positively frenzied posting mood, I’ve ended up emailing this link to more than one person which is the usual indicator of “should have blogged…

Adobe RGB: are you sure you know what you’re doing ?

In the {Canon} EOS {350D} manual there is a comment next to the colour space menu option description that states: “This setting is not recommended if you do…

AIRTIGHT – PostcardViewer Download

AIRTIGHT – PostcardViewer Download: http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/postcardviewer/ I meant to mention this a while ago when I was looking at various galleries and it’s a great non-linear way of presenting…

Olympus OM mount lenses on a Canon EOS 350D

I’ve had my old OM10 and a selection of lenses (Zuiko 28mm, 50mm and 135mm; Sirius 500m; Vivitar 2x teleconvertor) gathering dust for far too long now: I’ve…

Lightroom roundup

I’m sure it’s not possible to own a Mac, shoot in RAW format and not have heard of {Adobe}’s {Lightroom} software by now, and there’s no way I’m…