Category Archives: Weekly Poll
Feathered Friday…
A happy feathered Friday to all! Permit me to explain…recently the subject of egrets became a popular tangent in a photo forum that I actively participate in, and after some fun dialog, I shared a few shots from work I had done in the past in capturing these amazing animals. They really are quite beautiful, and on a whim I went through two shoots that had a lot of egret shots and quick processed theb into an Adobe Photo Gallery. Since I don’t believe I’ve shared these shots previously, here are some shots for your fine friday! (If you click … Continue reading
It’s All About ME!
Anyone know the Toby Keith song where he sings to his woman that most of the time it’s about her, but every once and a while he wants it to be about him? Well, today that is the theme for the blog – ME. Rest assured though, there is a relation to photography though… First off, thanks to the 27 people who participated in the last poll on whether the economic downturn was shaping their photo purchases. The results were pretty even: The new poll is now up and on the side panel, so for the RSS readers, be sure … Continue reading
Camera Profiles
So, today I had the day off work, and was catching up on a few things. I read through most of my piled up photo magazines, caught up on some NAPP tutorials, and some overdue email replies to various asundry things. One of the tutorials I watched was from Matt Kloskowski on installing camera profiles for ACR in both LR and CS3/CS4. It’s pretty cool stuff. Basically, Adobe has worked with various camera vendors to get the ACR to approximate the same colors that are shown in the vendor proprietary software (Digital Photo Professional for Canon and Capture NX for … Continue reading
New Podcast is Up!
That’s right, for two successive weeks now since our move, I’ve been able to find the time to record an audio podcast. Todays show had everything to do with the absolutely horrendus performance by the Broncos last night on MNF – their season turned to the toilet rather quickly. What ever happened to the fundamentals? Oh, sorry, this is a photo blog, not a football one! Okay, here’s the latest and greatest from CB. First and foremost, CB Episode #55 went up today. I took about twenty minutes to talk about off-camera lighting. I looked at the radio transmitters availabe, … Continue reading
Be careful with Adobe updates!
I was just in the NAPP forums (a great place to learn by the way), and learned about the ACR update. Since I already am good on the gear compatibility side, I went to the readme.txt file to see if there were any other updates to the programs that I should be aware of (Podpress has made me very cautious about updating too soon…) Turns out there are some LR issues with a few tools and with XMP sidecar files versus database entries. If this is all gibberish to you, then don’t worry you are probably fine. For the more … Continue reading
Photo Galleries Galore
I’ve been playing around with the SImpleviewer Flash concept a little lately. In looking at how others are implementing it on their blogs, I was thinking that CB could use a dedicated photo gallery to share and exhibit some photos. Well, as a temporary release, I’ve put a few together using the Auto-viewer format. It has naturally been customized a little, but is up and viewable right now! Check out the images I’ve included here: CB Photo Galleries They are mostly images of colors and textures thus far with a few other test images thrown in to determine sizing. Hopefully … Continue reading
The Weekender – Web stuff and some thoughts on CS4
The last few days have been insanely busy with work and home obligations, so out of necessity I have not had time to devote to content for the blog. My apologies for abandoning the readership temporarily, and without warning. I’ll endeavor to give advance notice before that happens again. So, with that out of the way, I thought today it might be useful to get a wrap-up of what I have been seeing and reading around the forums, blogs, and internet that’s photography-related. Jeff Revell, who has become quite well-known for his photowalking blog made a few interesting posts recently. … Continue reading
Friday Frenzy
Just a quick wrap up here for the week as the day is getting late, and I’ve got miles to go before I sleep. Um…yeah, okay, that came from a poem somewhere but I forget who wrote it or the title, so no credit line on that. As we all know by now (unless you are in a cave somewhere in the Congo), Canon has released the 5D Mark II and the specs were posted here a few days ago. Forums and the blogosphere have poked and prodded at just about everything they can until the camera itself comes to … Continue reading
