While Photoshop is one of the the industry standards for photo editing, it can also be quite costly. With Photoshop CS5 running you about $700 (and CS5 Extended costing as much as $1000), it can be a difficult purchase to have to make. Of course, if you are a student or educator of some sort, Adobe will cut you some serious deals, with Photoshop CS5 Extended only costing $200. Even if you’re not qualified for that discount but you know someone who is, have them buy it for you with their discount. However if $200 is still too steep a price for you, one of my favorite tech websites did a little write up on some free alternatives, for both Mac & PC. Unplgged is a great site for all things tech, and while there is generally more mac related content, you can count on some really interesting articles regarding photography/cameras. Check out the 10 Free Alternatives Here
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Random Tip #2
It’s always better to error by focusing too close instead of too far. This is because the depth-of-field works in a way where 1/3 of the depth is in front of the exact point of focus and 2/3 is behind said point. Except in the case where you have your lens focused to the closest focusing distance, in which case 1/2 the depth is in front and 1/2 is behind the point of focus.
iPhone about to be most popular camera on Flickr
This here chart shows the most popular cameras used by Flickr members. I’m guessing that spike about 1/3 of the way in is when Verizon started service.
New Canon 7D firmware 1.2.5
– Fixed a rare phenomenon in which there were rare cases where movie files taken could not be opened when repeatedly shooting movies with specific CF cards.
– Fixed a rare phenomenon in which there were cases where “Err 02″ appeared when repeatedly shooting still images with specific CF cards.
– Fixed a phenomenon that occurred when using high-capacity (32 GB or greater) CF cards: If either a CF card with only a little available space remaining or the battery was removed and then reinserted into the camera, and then the user attempted to start shooting movies immediately, shooting would stop.
– Improved the writing/reading speeds when using UDMA 7-compatible CF cards.
– Fixed a phenomenon that occurred when custom function C.Fn 4-1 was set to assign IS start to the AF stop button on the lens: When used with lenses that do not have an AF stop button, the IS function would not work.
– Corrected some mistakes in the menu screens displayed in Arabic and Portuguese. (This applies to models in overseas markets. The models for the Japanese market do not display those languages.)
Photographers killed in action
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Camera Setup of Choice
Defgrip comes through yet again with a dope article on 10 photographers’ camera setups of choice and why. Check it out, it’s pretty sweet and gives good insight into gear, and has a few interesting ideas as well.
2,130 photo time lapse
On my most recent solo excursion to New York, I decided to shoot a time lapse of the drive. I set the camera up on a tripod in the passengers seat, used a fisheye lens, set the intravelometer to shoot once every ten seconds. I was worried that the battery would run out, but alas it did not. Kudos to the LP-E4 battery for the 1DIII.
Scanning/Processing tutorials
I wrote up, rather hastily, a tutorial for scanning film and a walkthrough for processing/editing said film. If anyone really cares to, give me some feedback. I know I should add some screen grabs and stuff… It would be much easier to do a video walkthrough, but I myself don’t have the patience for watching those things. How about you? Should I just do video tutorials? Responses greatly appreciated.
Brian Barnhart
My dude Brian updated his photo website– he’s got a lot of clean stuff there, check it out.
Push It A Stop 