Monthly Archives: February 2008

ACR calibration for Lightroom – Part 3

Since this is the most popular topic on my blog (I get the most hits on this subject) – I have decided to add a new entry instead of updating my old entries with my latest finding. Here are the results of my repeating my ACR calibration with the new script (See references). You can

Backups!

We all know how critical it is to backup “stuff”. Here is how i do it: I have 3 external disks – 2 of them are hacked network storages (ximeta netdisks – 250GB) and one Firewire disk (500GB).

Our obsession with “Manual” options….

I was recently listening to a podcast in which the person spoke about using “Manual” exposure for almost everything. This reminded me about my first car – it had a stick shift. Back in the day, that was the only kind you got anyways. I initially struggled with it – eventually getting good at it.

Not an another damn review…

There is never a better time to do photography! Nikon in the recent PMA, announced a Tilt/Shift lens. They released this despite the fact that there will be very very few consumers who may want such a lens.  Who ever said US of A is sinking into recession? There is this weird set of people

HDR from single RAW image

As a follow-up to my post in the Nikonians forum from a while ago, i had someone write to me about how i did this. So, i put together a small tutorial on doing just this.

A thing or two about cheap eBay triggers….

Until now, i have been using the excellent Nikon CLS system to trigger my flash. It is not only reliable, but also accurate and is pretty much fool proof (I can shoot with Aperture priority or Manual and iTTL adjusts flash output to balance exposure accordingly). On my recent studio experience however, i had to