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Archives for January, 2006

Friday Photo – Jan. 13

Aagh! Friday the 13th has found me without anything processed for a Friday Photo! So I’m cheating again and using another Banff photo I had lying around, sorry. I’ll try to put something new together next week… Athabasca Falls

Nikon to reduce film business

I suppose this was probably inevitable, sooner or later. Nikon has announced that they’re seriously curtailing their film-based camera business, cutting their film body production back to just the new F6 and the entry-level manual FG10, dropping all but a handful of their manual-focus lenses, and stopping production of things like their large format lenses. [...]

Lightroom

Yesterday, Adobe announced Lightroom, a “professional photographic workflow tool” similar to Apple’s Aperture. It won’t be released for some time, I think, but they released a Mac-only beta when they announced it yesterday. Far more experienced and qualified photographers than myself have weighed in on it, but I thought I’d give my impressions from playing [...]

I knew this was coming

…and just like that, my Power Mac was rendered completely obsolete. Such is life with Apple Computer, I guess. *sigh*

Friday Photo – Jan. 6

There are so many technical things wrong with this photo, I don’t even know where to begin. A better photographer than myself would have just pitched it, I suppose. But there are a lot of things about it that I like, and I’m not likely to get out there any time soon to try again, [...]

Inchworm

It’s not Friday yet, but there are clearly not enough flower pictures on the front page. So here’s one. Inchworm