Canon Anounce EOS 5D Mark III
- At March 02, 2012
- By John
- In Camera, Gear
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5D Mark-III revealed by Canon
Well the long wait is over and the much anticipated announcement of the Canon EOS 5D Mark III hit the press and web this morning. The rumour mill has been abound and plentiful in recent weeks, in anticipation of the big announcement from Canon, and specs for the 5DII’s replacement have been quoted anywhere from 18 to 36 mp. Now all is revealed.
Read More»Free Lightroom 4 Beta Video
- At January 12, 2012
- By John
- In Instruction, Lightroom, Lightroom 4, Lightroom News, Video
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If you thought yesterdays post of Lightroom 4 beta resources wasn’t enough to get you started, well here’s another one for you. It’s another video, or rather a collection of videos over at the well known online training library at Lynda.com. I’m not a member or subscriber but this video is 1 hour 50 minutes of a Lightroom 4 Beta Overview from Chris Orwig and it’s free.
It’s split into many short segments each covering a specific top of LR4 beta so is a very useful resource. I haven’t watched it all yet but found the section soft proofing and books very useful. You can find the videos listed here.
Lightroom 4 Public Beta – Online Resources
- At January 11, 2012
- By John
- In Lightroom, Lightroom 4, Lightroom News, Review, Software
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It’s been just over 24 hours since the release of Lightroom 4 Beta and already there are a multitude of reviews, resources, discussions, tips and video’s online already. If you are an existing Lightroom user and haven’t downloaded your FREE copy of LR4 beta, you can do so now from Adobe web site here.
Read More»Lightroom 4 Beta Available for Download.
- At January 10, 2012
- By John
- In Lightroom, Lightroom 4, Lightroom News
- 0
Adobe Release Lightroom 4 Beta
Well it’s here, Adobe have today released the beta version of Lightroom 4 Beta and it’s available to download from their web site here. I haven’t had much of a chance to play with it so far, but the big new features seem to be Video support (which is not really of much interest to me, but no doubt very commercial), GPS support, new shadow and highlight controls, additional local adjustment controls and the much requested soft-proofing. Adobe’s summary of the new Lightroom headline features is as follows:
Read More»Antarctica 2011 Trip Review
- At January 09, 2012
- By John
- In Antarctica, Clothing, Workshop
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This is a blog I started quite some time ago, but for some unknown reason or other it got put on a back burner and I never got around to finishing it, until now. It’s been quite a while since my trip to Antarctica and I’ve been wanting to write about some aspects of this amazing trip. I read Andy Bigg’s (one of the workshop instructors) excellent article entitled Antarctica – What Worked and What Didn’t the equally excellent Antarctica Debrief by professional photographer and fellow workshop attendee Josh Holko. It’s very much something along these lines that I wish to pervey, so this is my take on the trip in deference to the two already very well written blogs.
Read More»Lightroom 4 Beta Soon?
- At January 01, 2012
- By John
- In Lightroom, Lightroom News, Photography, Software
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Lightroom 4 Beta to be released soon?
I was recently on a Photo workshop with a well known Lightroom 4 beta tester who also writes books on a particular aspect of Lightroom. He let slip his new revised book on Lightroom 4 is set to be delivered to his publisher in February 2012 and that we should seeing a Beta version of Lightroom 4 released very soon. He also intimated that there may be a few surprises in store especially with the Lightroom user interface, but he was pretty tight-lipped about exactly what those surprises would be.
Read More»Voyage to Antarctica
- At November 30, 2011
- By John
- In Antarctica, Location, Travel
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Later today I board my cruise ship the Ocean Nova, to begin my 10 day trip around the Antarctic Peninsular, hopefully the trip of a life time. Antarctica is a place that has long fascinated me from first hearing the amazing feats of Ernest Shackleton in my teens, then later in my first post university job where I worked with a guy who had just spent 18 months working on the British Antarctic survey, and who’s slides I found simple amazing. Now I’m about to embark on my own Antarctic adventure as part of a 73 strong photographic party. The journey down to Ushuaia on the southern most tip of Argentina, was rather long and arduous, 37 hours from door to door, 3 flights, cramped seats and a lot of waiting around in airports, but you can’t help be impressed by this ever growing tourist destination nestled into the southern tip of the Andes Mountains of Tierra del Fuego province.
Read More»Why Aren’t Extended Timer Facilities Built-in to my DSLR?
- At October 19, 2011
- By John
- In Accessory, Gadget, Gear, Gear Review
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On the weekend whilst photographing the limestone pavement on top of Malham cove in the Yorkshire Dales I lost my remote timer switch. It was dangling from my camera and got tangled up in my tripod legs as I was moving my tripod; one of the legs closed, snapped the timer cord out of the socket on the side of the camera which then disappeared down one of the deep grykes in the limestone pavement, never to be seen again. Thankfully it wasn’t an original (and very expensive) Canon TC-80N3 remote timer; my original TC-80N3 bit the dust last year when I managed to dangle it in salt water on a Scottish beach, this latest disaster was a only a considerably cheaper eBay clone.
Read More»Digital Landscape Photography by John & Barbara Gerlach
- At October 16, 2011
- By John
- In Book, Review
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Book Review
I used to buy quite a lot of photography books, too many according to my wife, but not so many these days. My recent acquisitions are mostly coffee table books from photographers I really admire and aspire to. It’s been a while since I bought anything to do with technique. That’s not to say I think I have perfected my techniques, far from it indeed, it’s just that most books in this category are firmly pitched at the novice or endless photo manipulation in Photoshop. I’m pleased to say
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