Lightroom Keywording
Part 1: Lightroom Catalogs, One or Many? Part 2: Lightroom Collections So you’ve loaded all your photos into your catalog(s), created some collections, and are now ready to take the next big step in organizing your photos and being able to access them when you need to. That step is easily the most work, the first …
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Lightroom Collections
In the last post we talked about merging catalogs into one single master so we could use Lightroom’s organizational tools. If you’ve decided to put all your images into one place, the next step is figuring out how to find time. While I’m speaking in terms of Adobe Lightroom 3, many of these principles apply …
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Lightroom Catalogs, One or Many?
Remember back in the day when you’d shoot a roll of film, have it developed, maybe put some of the photos into an album, and then dump your negatives into a giant box or drawer full of other photo store envelopes loaded with negatives? Did you ever go back to try to find a single …
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Balmacarra Neutral Density Filter Test
Today I experienced one of those forehead slapping moments when I finally realized the value of neutral density filters as the images hit my LCD. On some level I’d always understood how they affected the ways certain elements could be photographed in the middle of the day, bud I’d never fully appreciated how dramatic the …
Read More →How Redundant Are You?
In 2006 I burned two months worth of photos to disc in a photo lab in Bangkok. It was a modern shop with technology that probably outstrips what I would have found at most places in North America. When I returned home, I put the discs in a safe place and downloaded all the images …
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My Pack: Costa Rica
As has become a bit of a custom, and because people have been asking, here’s what I’m packing while in Costa Rica for 2 and a half months. Bag one is an Arc’teryx Cierzo 35 L daypack. The bag is fairly light, expands to hold a fair bit, and still compresses down when only partially …
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Gorillapod SLR-Zoom
Several people have asked how the Gorillapod worked out on my recent trip to Chile and Peru, and my answer is that it performed great… in exactly the way I expected it to. I shoot a Nikon D300. The metal chassis on this camera means that it’s a bit on the heavy side. Add to …
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My Pack: South America
One of the biggest things a traveller worries about is their pack. A common question on the travel forums is “Which pack should I buy?” and with good reason. Sometimes it seems that there are so many options to choose from and no easy way to decide what is best for you. It helps to see what others are using, so keep reading to see what I’m currently packing when I hit the road for more than a couple of weeks.
Read More →Stuff I Like: Bullet SPACE® PEN
Once upon a time, there existed a National Aeronautics and Space Administration that desired a pen that could perform in the vacuum of space. More than a billion dollars later, Paul C. Fisher developed the SPACE® PEN. What did the Russians do? They used a pencil.
While certainly worth a chuckle, the preceding anecdote falls a little short of the truth. This does nothing to detract from how great the Fisher Bullet SPACE® PEN is for the modern traveller. With the cap over the tip, this little pen slips easily into a pocket, but when the cap is removed and slid onto the back, it becomes a full sized writing tool. That alone would be enough for me to carry one of these around on a regular basis, but it’s the technology that really sold me on it.
Read More →A Weekend on the Juan de Fuca
The following trip report is intended as a brief account of our experience in doing the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail over the Canada Day weekend in 2007. When researching the trip online the only accounts we found involved spending more nights on the trail than we had available so I offer this for those …
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