Just recently I found two Photoshop tips on the Cambridge in Colour website which are the absolute best tips I've seen in ages. I shall summarise here.
( This may not be interesting unless you like Photoshop. )

It has not been a good few weeks for delivering images.
( Tale of woe; summary, the computer is probably broken. )

It's fair to say I'm not really a wedding photographer. I've officially done photos for three weddings in the last couple of years or so and each time it's a bundle of stress. However, this weekend was something special; I was duly honoured to add wedding four with the joining of my good friend Kate with her partner Kathryn. Here's an advance ( Read more... )

Chiefly a reminder for myself this one... but maybe useful to other people as well: A tool to hot-swap eSATA drives.
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I had the chance to compare a 50D and a demo 5D Mk II side by side last night. I'm now a convert to full-frame.
( No, really. )

Canon have released two new cameras, the EOS 50D and the EOS 5D Mk II, which is fortuitous because this is feeling very much like an upgrade year. My 30D is two years old now and could use some replacement. The issue becomes which one to buy.
( Some discussion follows )

Late last night (early this morning) I fixed the PC. Mercifully, the expiry of the power supply doesn't seem to have hit any other components; cue one hurried harddisk backup ( Read more... )

I'm sure it's not been a year since I replaced the power supply on the computer. And yet I come home this evening to find the computer will not turn on at all ( Read more... )

Following on from my previous post, I've been trying some more elaborate edits than my usual, while also bringing my computer to its knees. I wanted to try and move some of the studio shots into other locations and one particular picture of Ethel Hallow really worked for the concept:


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This is how far behind I am on the journal - I'm now going to talk about a shoot I did just over a month ago. However, let me whisk you back in time to a Tuesday at MWM StudioHalf the day was planned in with Ethel Hallow, while the other half bounced through a few potential models before illness and prior engagements stopped fighting me and ( Read more... )