February 9th, 2010
I downloaded a trial copy of Apple’s Aperture 3 today. After playing around with it for a few minutes, I gave up because it’s damn slow! I don’t really have an amazing computer, so i guess that’s the reason for the poor performance. At least in Adobe Lightroom I can actually work at a reasonable speed. I guess I’ll be sticking to Lightroom until I buy a new Mac. Actually I’ll probably just always stick to Lightroom anyway because I like the way that it works and the way the interface is laid out. Aperture is all very ‘iPhoto-ish’ to me, and I have never enjoyed iPhoto.
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December 15th, 2009
I was going through my Lightroom catalog and stumbled across this photo. It was shot at a temple somewhere in Cambodia. I don’t remember the name of it. Actually, I don’t think I ever knew the name of it. It’s always cool to browse through the archives and discover images that I didn’t really take note of during my initial run-through.
That’s all folks! I like to make pictures, not words…
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September 8th, 2009
Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!
Why does Lightroom’s Post-Crop Vignette tool have to look crappy compared to the Lens Correction tool. The Post-Crop tool looks like the equivalent of going into Photoshop, painting with black over top of the image, and then varying the opacity. Vignetting by way of the Lens Correction tool in the ‘Vignettes’ panel is much more pleasing in my opinion. Rather than sticking some black over your image, it seems to affect the exposure level instead. This look is more akin to using Levels/Curves in PS, and then masking out the appropriate areas.
Why can’t we have the wonderful look of the Lens Correction tool, with the flexibility of the Post-Crop Vignetting tool?
Okay that’s the end of my rant. Peace!
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July 21st, 2009
Here are some free 1920×1200 wallpapers to throw on your desktop!
The pictures are from my recent adventure to Cambodia. Click on thumbnail to load full version of pic!
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May 27th, 2009
Some pictures from a shoot with Kind Words From Bad People. It took place down at Iona Beach on a wet and miserable, but sadly typical Vancouver day. We all toughed it out and ended up having some fun too–well at least I enjoyed it.
I used a speedlight on a stand with shoot-through umbrella on 1/2 power i think, triggered with Pocketwizard Plus II’s. I own a Canon 430exII, but I may have used a friend’s Nikon SB-800 in these shots because I remember having problems with my flash.
In term of post-processing, I created a black/white/red theme in order to keep in line with the kind of look that the band wanted. I did my take on the classic b+w with coloured accent thingy. The fact that they each wore something red makes it work better, and really helped in keeping it thematically consistent. I also used the logo they sent me and made it follow the whole b+w with red accent idea.
Well, enough blabbering…
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