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This comes from David Kennedy’s Ontario in Photos blog: The fall is one of my favorite seasons to photograph Ontario’s landscape, particularly that thoese few weeks when the leaves have turned colour… Two years ago, though, the colours were very dramatic with bright reds and yellows and this period seem to last a few weeks… …
I read about this in the September issue of TechNet Magazine: Dealing with physical media can be a real drag. Since switching to Windows Vista and losing direct compatibility with the Microsoft Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel, I have been looking for a replacement to mount CD and DVD images… One tool I’ve found that does …
Use a wide or ultra wide angle lens to add some extra spark to an otherwise dull image. Using the widest lens or setting you have, move in close to your subject. You will notice that the perspective is distorted as the subject gets further away from you. Some subjects that this works very well …
The other day Chris was telling me about an image preview tool that he uses called FastStone Image Viewer. It is free software that can either be installed or run as a standalone executable. You can use the software to view, resize, and touch up photos, as well as do things like make a slide …
When I was younger, still in high school, I spent a lot of time learning photography, not unlike today. I read all the books I could, I talked to the guys in the local camera shops and most importantly, I shot a lot. However, back then my choices were all film based which was expensive. …
I heard about this on Download Squad. I haven’t tried it myself, but it sounds interesting. While it can’t bring back the quality to a heavily compressed JPEG image, JPEG Enhancer can smooth out the artifacts and make a much nicer-looking image as a result. It’s so easy to use, it’s ridiculous; simply open a …
This weeks tip is a very simple one. Watch your elevations. Simply, if your subject sits at a higher elevation than the camera, place the subject in the top half of the frame. If the subject sits below the camera, place it in the lower half of the frame. Following this simple guideline can help …
I have mentioned in previous tips that I do much of my shooting in the early morning. This is for a variety of reasons, better light than midday, less or no people traffic to interfere with my photos and of course life is busy and shooting in the morning doesn’t interfere with other things leaving …
I saw this at Canoe: Summertime – a great time to take lots of pictures. And with the price of memory cards ar an all-time low everyone gets shutter happy, including yours truly. Now, we don’t want to keep all these works of art to ourselves – we want to share them. We could choose …
I read about this in the August issue of Microsoft Technet magazine: Every IT pro I know has at least one or two multi-boot machines. Today, those systems usually include an instance of Windows Vista® or Windows Server® 2008, formerly code-named “Longhorn.” If you are running a multi-boot system with one of these operating systems, …