Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category

Doing It For Free

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

  "If they didn't pay me, I'd do this for free." - Harry Cabluck Have you ever had a job in your life where you felt like that? Have you ever invested your time and energy into a career where you literally couldn’t wait to get up in the morning? Few people have ...

Canon Powershot S90 Evaluation

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

S90 Information: August 19, 2009 Canon USA Press Powershot line press release: http://www.usa.canon.com/templatedata/pressrelease/20090819_powershot.html August 19, 2009 Canon UK S90 press release: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0908/09081907canons90.asp#press Canon USA S90 site: http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=223&modelid=19210 DP Review S90 brief hands on: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0908/09081906canons90handson.asp   Evaluation Context:    Overlanding / Expedition use   Purpose of this evaluation: Provide initial impressions and testing results of the S90 compared to other ...

Photos Posted: May, June & July 2008

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Photos for May, June & July 2008 are now posted at: http://www.hackneys.com/gallery/v/travel/ .

Photo Gadget of the Week

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Photo gadget of the week is Steph's Gorilla Pod made by Joby http://www.joby.com/ It enables support/mounting of our pocket cameras and Steph's Canon 30D or 40D with a short lens just about anywhere. It is a great device and it has come in very handy on numerous occasions. Highly recommended.  

DG 080

Monday, July 14th, 2008

  Prior to departing for South America I collected a set of GPS waypoints from prior overlanders. They included service locations, fuel stops, points of interest and, most importantly, camp sites.   We like to find our own places, make our own discoveries and generally have our own adventure rather than follow ...

Digital Photography Meta Data Overview

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Introduction Winston Churchill’s immortal description of 1939 Russia as “A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” is equally true of the current state of digital photography meta data. Most casual digital photographers never come face to face with meta data. They take their photos, they upload them to a ...

Breeze Browser Pro EXIF/XMP-IPTC Bug and Workaround

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Problem/Bug: BBP not populating EXIF comment/description from IPTC Description Scope: Problem/bug affects all BBP users who need to replicate IPTC description to EXIF description for JPG images. (This issue may affect other image types as well, I only tested JPG.) Impact is across all images used with any tool or environment, ...

Meta Data Audit

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Introduction Digital photographers are often faced with the challenge of missing, corrupted or disappearing meta data in their workflow. As a photo moves down the workflow, meta data can disappear or be corrupted. This missing or corrupted meta data may not be detected for weeks, months or years after the fact, often ...

Lightroom Edit Capture Time XMP vs. EXIF

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Scope: - Lightroom (LR) 1.4.1 and 2 Beta - Any file that is edited using Metadata:Edit Capture Time (Note: detail info below may be helpful to those seeking to understand date/time problems/issues with LR and other tools) Background: LR allows editing/offsetting of image capture time via the “Metadata:Edit Capture Time” menu option. Changing ...

Best New Photo Gear

Friday, March 28th, 2008

For this trip I left my trusty Manfrotto carbon fiber tripod at home. I wanted to get a tripod that was better designed for low shots, but I wanted to stay within the Manfrotto family so I could continue to use the quick release clamp system. I ended up with Manfrotto 055XProB legs, which ...