It’s esoteric but I want to preserve this information. If you use sidecar (XMP) files in Lightroom, DNG files do not have a sidecar file as the metadata is stored directly in the DNG. This […]
Category Archives: Photography
Adobe Subscriptions…
My recollections about revenue recognition rules and how they may have contributed to Adobe’s decision to switch to a subscription model.
“Turn Around”
Turn around.
Change your spot. Change your lens. Get down low. Lie on your stomach. Roll onto your back. Hold the camera up high. Climb up on something. Tilt the camera. Change the angle. Go longer. Go wider. Look down. Look up. Take a picture of the photographers.
Turn around.
In the Land of the Jedi
F-16 Fighting Falcon, with afterburner, 4 December 2018388th FW, based at Hill AF Base, Nevada So I’m on my way to Stovepipe Wells, in Timbisha, for a repeat of November 2017’s Visionary Death Valley Workshop. […]
RAW vs DNG
Among the things I often find myself writing about in online photo fora is the question of whether or not you should be leaving your photos in a native RAW format or converting to DNG. […]
Pure White Backgrounds, Part 2
Front yard tulip, 2018-04-08. This is my first field attempt with the real gear. I shot this on a heavily overcast, slightly drippy day in my front yard. Here’s the setup: Elinchrom Quadra Hybrid and […]
Bald Eagles of the Pacific Northwest Workshop: 26-30 December, 2018
Juvenile eagles fuss over precedence. 2017-12-27 Immediately after family Christmas, I packed myself and my photo gear up and wandered off to join Aaron Baggenstos’ Bald Eagles of the Pacific Northwest workshop. I’ve been out […]
Pure White Backgrounds
Nikon D810 with Sigma 180mm f/2.8 macro; 0.4 sec, f/29, ISO 200, +2 EV, lighting described in main text, no crop There’s a school of nature photography exemplified by Meet Your Neighbors that is natural […]
Printing 2 of X: Renaming (a lot of) Color Profiles on the Mac
With paper comes profiles. With sample packs of paper come LOTS of profiles. Profiles which invariably have unpleasant names, like “HFAPhoto_CanPro1000_PK_HahnemuehlePhotoSilkBaryta310” which neither rolls trippingly off the tongue nor makes it easy to pick “Hahnemuehle […]
Printing 1 of X: Testing (and Testing (and Testing (and Testing…)))
In which our Hero (ahem) seeks out the work of earlier giants, absorbs mentorship, tries and fails, learns that obvious things are obvious even to him (after failing), and muses on the proper order of […]