Monthly Archives: November 2007

Lightroom and Capture NX

Capture NX is THE best RAW editor for Nikon DSLRs period. It however, does not offer any DAM capabilities – which is where Lightroom comes in. LR is not great for this, but is the best out there for the time being. You can configure NX to be an external editor, and injest images to

Thoughts for the week…

A few weeks ago, i posted an image that i took recently to a forum and it got some pretty interesting feedback. It seems that people are generally divided when it comes to use of Photoshop for post-processing. These are probably the same people that shot film, and gave their film to a lab for

New Photoblog

Let me tell  you something. Its not easy to blog, let alone – setup a site to do it as well. Being a geek that i am – i have done it – many times now. I have a new photoblog – here.  The idea was to present one image at a time, in bigger

Dynamic range vs. Exposure latitude

I was listening to Kayce Baker’s interview and found it very useful and informative about the topic above. I thought i would elaborate more: Latitude is the #stops that a given image has – typically about 3 in slide film, about 7 in negative film and about 5-8 in Digital SLRs. The fact that negative

Thoughts for the week…

I think it was Issac Newton, who said that he is a pebble in the beach. I think i am more like a grain of sand in the beach when it comes to photography. The reason i bring this up, is that there are a bazillion photographers out there – either doing photography as a

Microstock experience…

Based on my own rejections from Shutterstock and a good friend’s (and a good photographer too) experience – i must confess that selling images  using micro stock does not work for all kinds of photographers. I “photoshop” all my images. I dont consider “photoshopping” bad at all – These microstock photography sites – dislike photoshopped