Category Archives: Photography

Geotagging Pictures

Panoramio, Flickr and Smugmug also offer the ability to put pictures on maps. Robogeo allows you to upload pictures directly to Flikcr and geocode photos with Google Earth. jAlbum has skins that support geotagged photos for your own web sites. … Continue reading

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John Nack on Adobe: New digital photography guides from Adobe

Interesting set of papers from Adobe.  Link to John Nack on Adobe: New digital photography guides from Adobe

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Talking about Download details: SyncToy v1.0

 A new version of the SyncToy is available for download, minor changes from build 49 to 64, not documented unfortunately. The most apparent change is the addition of documentation on how to schedule the synchronization of folder pairs. If you … Continue reading

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Talking about ImageQuery

 This is a very cool tool to query your images based on the EXIF and IPCT data. From the web site: ImageQuery searches for JPG images based on meta data. Meta data meansadditional information beside the picture itself that is … Continue reading

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The Life of Plants

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Follow up on “Stupid Errors”

This topic got a good discussion going on DPReview, one of my favorite photography sites. You might want to check it out. A great "advanced user" tip comes from Petteri, to which goes the credit for this: (1) If you … Continue reading

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Stupid Errors You Can Avoid

I wanted to write on this for a long time. It seems like mastering the art of photography is very difficult to do. So I wanted to highlight some of the things that we all can do to be better … Continue reading

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Talking about Camera Raw 3.1 update – Photoshop Elements for Windows – Downloads

A new updated Camera Raw plugin is available from the Adobe web site. It now supports the Canon XT and few other cameras, but not a lot of extra new features. From the web site: Support for the following cameras … Continue reading

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Talking about Canon: EOS 20D firmware v2.0.0

From DPreview comes the news of a new firmware for my beloved 20D. The jump is to v2.0.0 from 1.something before. Good practice in these cases is to let it set for a few days, read the comments from others … Continue reading

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Pixmantec RawShooter Essentials 1.1.2 Released

A new version of the already excellent RAW conversion utility was just released. Check it out at http://www.pixmantec.com/products/rawshooter.html New features in this version (from the web site): – Improved mapping WB to Kelvin scale – Ability to change background brightness … Continue reading

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