As I’ve mentioned in the past (and as anyone who’s lost files knows) it’s essential to have reliable backup systems: fundamentally you need to have copies of any file you care about, and be able to find them when you need them! On each of my photography workshops and expeditions …
On our recent Antarctica workshop we ended up making many panoramic images based on turning our cameras to vertical orientation and shooting a single row of overlapping images. These ranged from simple 3-frame sequences in search of higher resolution, to gigapixel monstrosities taken with medium-format cameras. Usually photographers were mainly …
I’m not writing here about physical “things” (although sensible names there are important too!). I’m referring to the names we give objects in our digital image processing tools. Not so much the names of image files, but rather things like software presets/templates, actions, layers, etc. My fundamental guideline: Names should …
Christmas morning approach to Risøyhamn EOS 7D, ISO 1600, 24-105mm @ 55mm (A2_029710) 68° 58’33” N, 15° 42’16” E As you may by now know, I spent 5 weeks at the end of 2009 aboard a Hurtigruten ship, travelling up and down the Norwegian coast. At regular intervals during this …
When critiquing images for my photography students, one of the details I often pick up on is when an image is tilted, even by a fraction of a degree. While most of them realise that it’s mainly a matter of practice (I’ve overheard comments in the classroom about “[expletive] landscape …
If you’ve followed along with the recommendations of earlier articles in this thread, you will have identified “sets” containing your data files. Grouping them together makes it easier to manage the files on your system, and by extension makes it easier to manage your backups. I’ll get back to sets …
Another post for the photographers amongst you who are curious about my processes. This time it’s about how I use GPS data to geo-tag my photos with exact GPS coordinates. Choosing my first book20° 36’41” N, 102° 1’58” EEOS 40D, 50mm/1.8 (A2_003826) By attaching location information to your photos, you …
