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I hope that everyone is now shooting with straight horizons and buildings that are not falling over! If not, have a look at last week’s tip on keeping straight lines straight. Today, a tip on how to hold your camera for better photos. The LCD screen on today’s digital cameras provides some great advantages over …
Not too long ago I was travelling down University Avenue in Toronto when I saw a group of young girls organizing themselves for a photograph. The last girl in the group set up the camera and ran over to her friends then they all waited for the camera to do its thing. When the flash …
From PC Magazine: Whenever you start your computer, you are faced with a few moments of thumb twiddling while Windows XP boots and prompts you to log on. Although you should expect to wait for a few moments, sometimes Windows XP seems to boot rather slowly. In fact, you may notice that over a period …
Last time I finished up my three part series on night photography. This week I am discussing keeping straight lines straight. When shooting, it is important to be sure to keep straight lines straight. Trees that lean one direction, horizon’s that fall off to one side and buildings that seem to fall over are all …
From Wired START: Sure, you could fill your video iPod with episodes of Knight Rider from iTunes for $2 a pop. Or you could save some cash – and your soul – and fill it with files you convert from your DVD collection using freely available software. Problem is, you’d have to break the law. …
I’m sure you’ve all heard about the new Google Page Creator Beta. When I heard about it a few days ago, I went to sign up for an account, and as is usually the case, with their beta releases, they had stopped allowing new sign-ups. I went again today, and was able to login with …
I have been discussing night photography in the past few tips, including helpful equipment and shooting techniques for great night shots. I will finish up the series today with some tips about when to shoot, using flash, a technique called dragging the shutter, and 2nd curtain sync. Using flash for night photography can be helpful, …
I recently received an email from Jim Lawler, the programmer behind PurgeIE: I am the author of PurgeIE which you reviewed for one of your newsletter articles. Please take a look at “DelinvFile” and consider mentioning it in your “Tips…” section. Although I recently converted “DelinvFile to a commercial version, the basic functionality is available …
Gmail Skins is a Firefox extension that lets you change the look of your Gmail inbox (amongst some other things). It adds the following features: Change the colour/skin of your inbox Insert smileys/emoticons and images in to your emails Make the navigation (Inbox, Starred, Sent Mail, etc) horizontal Fix the navigation in place so that …
From Digital Media Thoughts: Answer me this my fellow digital photographers: when you come back from shooting a bunch of photos with your camera, do you keep them all? Or do you delete some of them? I’m not talking about the blurry ones, or the ones that are too dark to be rescued. I’m asking …