Quick Monitor Calibration

A well calibrated monitor is essential when processing your photos so you can ensure they look their best.
I use a Huey Pro but if you don’t want to buy additional equipment, here’s a quick way to make sure your brightness and contrast look right.
Photo Friday have produced a neat page to test and calibrate your [...]

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Flickr and Links

This post is a bit of a rant that’s been building for a while but bear with me! Especially if you use Flickr.
I’ve long thought it strange that whenever you add a link in Flickr, either as part of your profile within a caption for one of your images, they rewrite it to add in [...]

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Importing DNG and Importing Light

See what I did there? No… well read on. You will…
Firstly, there’s a great write up over on the X= blog about why you should import and convert your photos to Adobe’s DNG format. Definitely worth a read.
Secondly, apologies for it being a little quite round here of late. I’ve been working on a new [...]

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Need some inspiration?

Are you the sort of person that buys those glossy photo magazines as a way of getting inspiration for your own shots and setups?
In the current economy this can be expensive (unless you stand around the bookshop and read them there!). Thankfully Photojojo has come to the rescue with a list of their top 10 [...]

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Happy Birthday DPS!

The Digital Photography School site is three years old this month. In addition, they’ve also just posted their 1,000th article.
To celebrate they’ve posted the top 10 articles ranked by views. The top ten are:

10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits
Long Exposure Photography: 15 Stunning Examples
How to Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography
15 Stunning Images Using [...]

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Digital Photography Glossary

Confused between DPI, LPI and PPI? Unsure whether you use Raster or Vector images? Or just wanting to know the different between RGB and CMYK?
If so, the then Digital Photography School has just posted a glossary or key jargon often encountered when dealing with digital photography. Follow the link below for the full list.
Digital Photography [...]

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Feed Issues

Apologies if your feed for my site has been going a little hay-wire of late. It appears that the move to Wordpress caused some issues.
I’ve now implemented the FeedBurner Wordpress plug-in, FeedSmith, so I’m hoping things will settle down a bit.
If you’re still having problems with the feeds, then feel free to contact me and [...]

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A Few Changes

I’ve not posted much of late as I’ve been busy converting my entire site from Movable Type to Wordpress.
Thankfully this is all done now and things should be roughly the same. I have taken the opportunity to add in some minor tweaks (such as moving the menu to just under the banner) but hopefully you [...]

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Not so wild life

Dave, a friend of mine has just launched a great new photo site to showcase one of the more popular subjects he likes to focus on – farm animals.
From just a quick review of his Flickr photostream this passion is obvious, however with the launch of notsowildlife.com he’s collected all his (really rather good) shots [...]

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DP Review Challenges

Well I missed this – but apparently DP Review has launched a photographic challenges site.
Although still in beta, the site lists various mini-challenges for people to try and then vote on to highlight the best shots. No prizes as far as I can see (other than the adoration of your peers) but a nicely designed [...]

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