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Montreal

  Personal Work Montreal     One of the enjoyable, but important, tasks as a photographer is personal work. For an enthusiast, this may be your primary photographic activity. As a professional, this is the often-overlooked task, of self-assignment. It’s critical for developing skills and for stepping away from the grind and pressures in a [...]

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Storage

……Now where did I put that…..?.. I’ve recently finished upgrading the external storage on my system and I thought I would share some of the experience and things I’ve learned. Now I am running on a PC, but I think you’ll find something useful in here, even if you are on a Mac. I have [...]

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Take a Tablet and Call me in the morning

Now, if you’re like me, you’ve heard of tablets and how handy they are to use with photoshop. If you’re also like me, you’ve been doing just fine with a mouse and involved in too many other things to learn a new technology unless it’s critical. When I was at Imaging USA in Florida earlier [...]

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How white are your whites?

How white are your whites? One the biggest challenges of photography is understanding just good the Mark I eyeball is at dealing with light. The human eye is capable to dealing with light at a level well beyond any camera in existence, particularly with dynamic range and colour temperature, or white balance. Colour temperature makes [...]

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More Interesting Non-Photo Photo Gear

Well, just after I posted my past entry I needed to order another pair of boots, as I’ve worn the last ones out. This will be my third pair, and this one carried me from the Scottish highlands to the jungles of the Yucatan peninsula and just about everything in between. I love these boots, [...]

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Finally – Gloves for shooters

If you’re like me and you shot outdoors, at some point the weather will turn cold. I’m pretty good in cold weather, but eventually I need to wear gloves. When you’re trying to shoot, this creates problems, primarily that you need to remove the gloves to do almost anything. Reaching into a pocket, changing a [...]

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