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  May 2008
  • A handy brush
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  April 2008
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  March 2008
  • Latest Canon 5D firmware
  • Secular thinking
  • The Transamerica pyramid
  • Aperture 2.1
  • Vince Laforet again
  • Adobe - shame on you
  • Municipal Logic
  • The Panasonic LX-1 revisited
  • A face in the window
  • As the chaps at Monty Python once put it ….
  • How not to design a user interface
  • Point gun at foot, aim, fire
  • The real capacity of storage cards
  • Two years with the Canon 5D
  • About the snap: Marion Campbell
  • Innovation is not invention
  • An awesome gadget
  • Notes on Tosca
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  • Making an external drive bootable
  • Enhanced searching for this blog
  • A great picture of a great man
  • Apple TV revisited
  • A bank has an original idea
  • Mac Book - another hard disk upgrade
  February 2008
  • Raphael and advertising
  • Lightroom soft proofing and printing
  • HP Designjet printer head cleaning and repair
  • Paint Job
  • Lightroom on an older Mac
  • Migrating to Lightroom from Aperture
  • A cheap remote for the Canon 5D
  • Aperture 2.0 - Part III
  • A slice of LIFE - by Peter Solmssen
  • Ludwig Schricker - Photographer
  • Aperture 2.0 - Part II
  • Winston and Vermeer
  • News and Standard!
  • Aperture 2.0 - Part I
  • Sharp and unsharp
  • About the snap: Balloon seller
  • Make a big enough mistake ….
  • Early Penn
  • Leitz Trinovid binoculars
  • AppleTV as a photography device
  • Edward Quinn - Photographer
  • A welcome winter visitor
  January 2008
  • Sigma DP1 finally due?
  • Competition is back!
  • Big Brother, your camera and you
  • Is Aperture dead?
  • GAF 500 is back!
  • Frescos and photography
  • Favorite posts of 2007
  December 2007
  • Goodbye 2007
  • Picture frames
  • Christmas carols
  • Christmas Carols
  • 2007 Best (and Worst) of the Year awards
  • Canon 5D - time to wait
  • Canon’s big guns
  • A palliative
  • Q & A
  • History repeats itself
  • Matt Stuart
  • Canon 400mm f/5.6 ‘L’ lens - Part II
  • Canon 400mm f/5.6 ‘L’ lens - Part I
  • Medium Format digital
  November 2007
  • Sigma DP1 - how not to communicate
  • You can take the boy ….
  • Happy Thanksgiving to one and all.
  • Colors and shapes
  • About the Snap: General Motors Building
  • About the Snap: Madison Avenue
  • Wall Street
  • Mac Book enhanced
  October 2007
  • Autumn
  • Don’t let Leopard bite you in the ….
  • Leigh Sheldon
  • Arounder Magazine
  • The Cocktail Hour
  • Mass storage
  • After the harvest
  • Autumn
  • Civilisation
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  • The Nikon D3 being built
  • Failure rates and fraud
  • Black Swans and photography
  • Rosie the Riveter
  September 2007
  • Marketing and choice
  • Pool
  • Rates of change
  • Vince Laforet
  • How much is too much?
  • Ways of Seeing
  • Better HTML Export
  • Dark frames = bright pictures
  • About the snap: Green
  • Live View
  • A fine British photographer
  • A good message needs few words
  • A Lightroom user’s experience
  • Better sound
  • Small is chic
  • Aperture and Lightroom
  • Keeping cool
  • MacBook as a desktop computer
  August 2007
  • Aperture and video cards
  • Sad moment
  • The ultimate travel kit
  • Screen calibration
  • Meet my new Aperture computer
  • Total heaviosity
  • Well, it’s about time!
  • Backing up the MacBook
  • MacBook upgrades for Aperture
  • The new MacBook
  • Photojournalism is dead
  July 2007
  • Norman Parkinson
  • Guy Bourdin
  • They still don’t get it
  • This site is now iPhone optimized
  • David Seymour
  • iPhone - Part IV
  • Full frame DSLR from Sony?
  • iPhone - Part III
  • iPhone - Part II
  • iPhone - Part I
  • Teaser
  • About the Snap: Lovers
  June 2007
  • Keld and I
  • Leica M8 redux
  • Canon 20mm - some further thoughts
  • About the Snap: Holocaust memorial
  • Picture Styles in the Canon 5D
  • Robert Doisneau
  • The Tuileries garden
  • About the Snap: Beached whales
  • Aperture file export to your ISP
  • How does it look on my iPhone?
  • Aperture now has enhanced RAW capabilities
  • Taste and discretion
  • New iMacs coming
  • Horst P. Horst
  • George Hoyningen-Huene
  • About the Snap: Wrapped Heads
  • About the Snap: Sunday paper
  • Pushing it
  • Publishing with Blurb - Part II
  • A touch of the surreal
  • Software I use
  • The woeful state of consumer digital cameras
  • Canon 5D sensor dust
  • Ilse Bing
  • Canon’s 20mm f/2.8 lens
  • HP - reality check needed
  • Canon and collimation
  • About the Snap: Bermuda
  • Trust but verify
  • Street rods
  • Medium format digital starter camera - $10k
  • How to clear a cocktail party
  May 2007
  • Google goes QTVR
  • Publishing with Blurb - Part I
  • Canon 5D - can you say speed?
  • Happy Memorial Day
  • Beating the burn
  • Death
  • More desaturation
  • What to do with $2,500?
  • Botox Bride
  • Point-and-shoot and Hank Carter
  • About the snap: Rocker
  • A Wii lesson for camera makers
  • Beaton in the Sixties
  • Vision
  • The problem with P&S cameras
  • About the Snap: Bergie’s
  • My photography books on the web
  • Cataloging books
  • About the Snap: Keep Left
  • Jacques-Henri Lartigue
  • Desaturation in Aperture
  • About the Snap: Hewitts
  • Aperture - just add speed
  • Mirror slap in the 5D revisited
  • Spot the film user
  • André Kertész
  • Winston Hofler - Photographer
  • About the Snap: St. James’s Park
  • Mirror slap in the Canon 5D
  • Shake a Leg
  April 2007
  • How times change
  • About the snap: Terns at Oceano Dunes
  • Morning Paper 2
  • California sky
  • Finally over $100
  • Morning Paper 1
  • Balloons
  • Go where the money is
  • Walker Evans: Signs
  • About the Snap: The Painter
  • Saul Leiter
  • A good laugh
  • About the Snap: Max
  • About the Snap: Perry’s
  • You probably do not need a 5D
  • Canon 5D in use
  • Thomas Eakins
  • Bob Carlos Clarke
  • Beating the system
  • Afternoon Sun
  • High viewpoint
  • Do not do this for a living
  • The show is on!
  March 2007
  • My show at Castoro Cellars
  • Ghetto Mac?
  • Listmania
  • Keeping it clean and making the loupe functional
  • Window view, more Mono
  • One color, not Club Mono
  • More monochrome
  • Black and White is dead
  • Getting ready for the show
  • The power of RAW
  • Wither now
  • Slide shows are back
  • Formula One - Bravo Honda!
  • Canon EOS 5D Macho model
  • 250 ASA
  • Why Lightroom is a good thing
  • Another unnecessary solution
  • Pentax 645 Digital feels heat from Canon
  • Mounting hell
  • Solutions looking for problems
  • Sigma DP1 - update
  • High contrast scenes
  • Music box photography is back
  • Olympus gets IS right
  • The biggest loss in the demise of the LP ….
  February 2007
  • HP DesignJet 90 ink use
  • Apple’s Pages revisited
  • A good snort
  • Printer profiles and root canals
  • Time for a Canon 5D upgrade
  • That Canon wonder lens again
  • Annie Leibovitz
  • Stills and movies
  • Cheap and good
  • The Canon 85mm f/1.8 lens in the studio
  • Meet the new Kodak
  • Great pictures! You must have an expensive camera.
  • Shockproof Olympus
  • On a roll….
  • Management by dreams
  January 2007
  • The rebate game
  • Lorraine Daley
  • No more cheating?
  • I wish Apple designed cameras
  • In the dark
  • Predictions for 2007
  • Happy New Year
  December 2006
  • Goodbye 2006
  • Shadows
  • On the BART
  • Merry Christmas
  • 2006 Best (and Worst) of the Year awards
  • Early birds
  • Photoshop CS3
  • Full aperture
  • One hundred yards - Part V
  • The Gutenberg effect
  • Second fifteen
  • Zealotry
  • No more Great Photographers?
  • Paranoia
  • Free Canon 5D
  • One hundred yards - Part IV
  • Bigger and faster
  • The (wife’s) new iMac
  November 2006
  • A tale of two lenses
  • HP ink costs
  • The Christmas snap
  • A fool and his money….
  • One hundred yards - Part III
  • Aperture for monochrome pictures - Part II
  • The Leica M8 debacle
  • Giving Thanks
  • Kitsch
  • Cheaper and cheaper
  • Framing Really Big Prints
  • One hundred yards - Part II
  • For your Christmas stocking
  • Vibration Reduction
  • Remote strobe trigger
  • Digital Camera RAW Support Update 1.0.1
  • Aperture for monochrome pictures - Part I
  • Volkswagen: A Week at the Factory
  • Sigma DP1 - a true Leica replacement?
  • More censorship from Leica
  • One hundred yards - Part I
  • Leica’s Watergate
  • Leica M8 quality control
  • Finally you can use Panasonic LX-1 RAW with Aperture
  • Balls
  • Film or Digital
  • Digital schmigital
  • Withdrawal symptoms
  • Late sun
  • Just a snap
  • A Doggy portfolio
  • Aperture 1.5.1
  • Working at widescreen
  • Grain
  October 2006
  • Fun at the Apple store
  • Kodak sensors
  • Ralph Gibson - Deus ex Machina
  • The Teds
  • Chavez Ravine, 1949
  • Mounting Really Big Prints
  • Aspect ratios
  • Studio Flash
  • Pages for books
  • Stuff
  • Leica - Witness to a Century
  • Print the facts, forget the rumors
  • Take 55
  • A part of me is no more
  • Did he, or didn’t he?
  • Keeping it simple
  • Cameras and loyalty
  • Margaret Bourke-White - early work
  • Two rocks
  • Five stars
  • Richard Gere - Photographer
  • Canon lens quirk
  • Ugly sells
  • Skrebneski - Portraits
  • Tailor the Adjustments HUD in Aperture 1.5
  • HP DesignJet Z photo printer
  • Fourteen minutes and thirty-three seconds
  • Aperture 1.5 - Part V
  • Aperture 1.5 - Part IV
  September 2006
  • Aperture 1.5 - Part III
  • Aperture 1.5 - Part II
  • Cameras and boat anchors
  • Someone at Sigma is thinking
  • Aperture 1.5 - Part I
  • Well done Epson
  • Label drinkers
  • Now film really is dead
  • How to run a photo business
  • Samsung rises
  • Political photography
  • Never underestimate the consumer’s taste
  • Ergonomics and cameras
  • Vanities
  • Multi-media rocks!
  • Cheap sound recording for your computer
  • Aperture 2.0
  • Sanity check - Leica M8
  • My darkroom
  • Cheap pretentiousness
  • Sound memories
  • The photo gallery of the future
  • Quicktime movie enhancements
  • More lies from CBS
  • The B&H AV catalog arrrives
  • A fine HDR tutorial
  • Always carry …. a sound recorder?
  • Keld rediscovered
  • The best $140 you will ever spend
  • Digital tampering
  • Slideshows with music
  August 2006
  • Enhanced QTVR interactive features
  • Aperture 2.0? My wish list.
  • Joseph Sudek
  • Canon 5D sensor dust revisited
  • Canon EOS 400D
  • QTVR on the big screen
  • Costly excess
  • A Blast from the Past
  • QTVR on the TV screen
  • Surrounded
  • A predictable disappointment
  • Adding sound to QTVR panoramas - Part III
  • More hype
  • Adding sound to QTVR panoramas - Part II
  • More on single image tone mapping
  • QTVR panoramas on my web site
  • Another sound panorama
  • Strong foregrounds make for strong panoramas
  • Thrill to the sights and sounds of racing Porsches
  • Change or die
  • Adding sound to QTVR panoramas - Part I
  • Be sceptical
  • Single image tone mapping
  • Saving one’s rear
  • Adjusting the QTVR image
  • Getting rid of zenith and nadir ‘holes’
  • Quality VR photography
  • Candid Virtual Reality
  • Payola and conflicts of interest
  • Nikkor 10.5mm Fisheye
  • There’s one born every minute
  • Abroad with the New York Times
  • A career self portraitist
  • Fuji and Kodak - birds of a feather
  • Good advice from Frans Lanting
  July 2006
  • Senility is a nasty thing
  • Test your Photo IQ
  • A (QTVR) brush with the law
  • Finally, a QTVR HDR real life panorama
  • QuickTime + High Dynamic Range photography
  • Free Ruler
  • King Pano head and PTMac - Part III
  • More disinformation
  • I like Leicas as much as the next man….
  • King Pano head and PTMac - Part II
  • Two excellent new Aperture tutorials
  • King Pano head - Part I
  • From self-publicity central
  • Problems with peppers
  • Some more thoughts on ImageAlign
  • We are just scratching storage densities
  • The trouble with Flickr
  • Finally, a good HDR image
  • ImageWell
  • When all else fails, change your logo
  • This just in from Reuters
  • Diane Arbus - fake.
  • Fast landscape
  • Cropping is just a tool
  • Hyper-wide candids
  • Slim Aarons and rich people
  • Safari rocks!
  • At the beach with Eugene Boudin
  • A plug-in for filmies
  • Canon EOS 5D firmware update
  • Some outdoor HDR experiments
  • July 4, 2006
  • Photomatix HDR
  • A first HDR experiment
  • High Dynamic Range photography
  • Redwoods redux
  June 2006
  • So you thought f/1.4 was fast?
  • Jack Dykinga - nature photographer
  • Time to consult your user base, Apple
  • A great Quick Release tripod attachment
  • Downtown Manhattan
  • Simple lines and colors
  • Kodachrome
  • Street Photographs - Juan Buhler
  • It’s the software, stupid
  • Aperture version 1.1.2
  • Digital Leica - not!
  • Another hosing for the taxpayer
  • Light spotted at end of Rochester tunnel?
  • Virtual Reality comes to town
  • Twenty photographs
  • Ten predictions for the next twelve months
  • One year later
  • In search of Edward Hopper
  • Into the sun
  • The new face of journalism
  • Fishy snapshots
  • The digital Leica M
  • Self, self, self
  • Canon 15mm Fisheye lens - Part III
  • More competition
  • Web sites for photographs
  • Canon 15mm Fisheye lens - Part II
  • A RAW mess
  • Canon 15mm Fisheye lens - Part I
  • Juan Buhler - the best street photographer.
  May 2006
  • Facades
  • In the studio
  • Canon 200mm f/2.8 ‘L’ lens
  • Looking at pictures
  • The Leicaflex SL
  • The Leica DP - Part VI
  • Miles Storey’s Mute photoblog
  • In the flower garden
  • Shutter lag
  • Tut, tut, Apple
  • Pentax does it right
  • Not really luck
  • Recapturing the Leica spirit
  • Controls and confrontation
  • The most fun I ever had taking pictures
  • Fun with the B&H catalog
  • A real workout
  • Backing-up on the go
  • The designer as star
  • Dismemberment needed
  • The Leica DP - Part V
  • Still movies
  • The Leica DP - Part IV
  • The Leica DP - Part III
  April 2006
  • The Leica DP - Part II
  • The Leica DP - Part I
  • Competition lives
  • Digital waste
  • Apple’s Aperture - now just $130
  • Early photographic vision
  • Boxers
  • Stamp out sensor dust
  • Nothing changes
  • A simple precaution
  • Happy Birthday Apple Computer!
  March 2006
  • Wither digital?
  • Your nearest and dearest
  • New EOS 5D firmware
  • And now for some pictures
  • Global interest
  • Apple’s Aperture - Part IV
  • Apple’s Aperture - Part III
  • Apple’s Aperture - Part II
  • Apple’s Aperture - Part I
  • Harry Callahan
  • Elton John’s collection
  • Walker Evans
  • HP DesignJet 90 - Part IV
  • HP Designjet 90 - Part III
  • HP DesignJet 90 - Part II
  • HP DesignJet 90 - Part I
  • Gary Winogrand
  • Long thoughts
  • Canon’s EOS Capture
  • Robert Capa
  • Noise
  • Tony Ray Jones
  • Breaking up
  • Robert Frank
  • Choices
  • A ten year digital device
  • Tony Snowdon
  • A break in the storm
  • Paul Strand
  • After the Purge
  • Elliott Erwitt
  • Bill Brandt
  • A Gorgeous Bit o’ Bottle
  February 2006
  • Fixing distortions
  • Image processing
  • Excuse me while I examine my Portlait setting through the Glid
  • Joe’s NYC
  • Digital Dust
  • The Man, The Image and The World
  • Monochrome flashback
  • Hearst’s Castle
  • Brassai
  • Taking Rube Goldberg for a spin
  • Worlds in a Small Room
  • Daniel Gomes
  • Steam, Steel and Stars
  • Wetzlar goes to Tokyo
  • On speed
  • Anything but digital
  • Eliot Porter
  • Limekiln
  • Fix that flap
  • Cecily
  • Upstrap in action
  • Messing about
  • Quality is subjective
  • Some prints yield a fond goodbye to medium format
  • That first ‘roll’
  • Pandora’s Box
  • Erwin Blumenfeld
  January 2006
  • Putting my money….
  • At the movies
  • Hurry. It’s almost over.
  • Stumbling about.
  • Cameras and aesthetic design
  • 2005 - taking stock.
  • Will the last person leaving Rochester please put the lights out?
  December 2005
  • Delgate the drudge of routine printing
  October 2005
  • Irving again
  August 2005
  • Best and Worst
  • At the printers
  July 2005
  • Pseuds Corner
  • There’s nothing quite like mounting.
  • Storage is cheap - and I don’t mean hard copies
  • The Photographer-Mule migrates up-market.
  • Good Photographs and Car Accidents
  • Forget Technique
  • More large format adventures
  • Is it enough if you just enjoy it?
  • An exchange of shared values
  • Anonymous writes
  • Stop wasting Time - Part II
  • Stop wasting Time - Part I
  • Quality Time with Ansel
  • If all else fails, Make Mine Monochrome.
  • Really Large Prints
  • Film is Dead
  • Crop it Good
  • Photoblogging
  • Expose yourself
  • A sense of purpose
  • Degas - Photographer
  June 2005
  • Books by the foot
  • Take fewer pictures
  • Does equipment matter?
  • The Greatest Photographic Portrait
  • Rot
  • Losing my (large format) virginity.
  • Going Big
  • Improve your ink jet prints
  • About One
  • Throw away your lens cap and case
  • Publish or be damned
  • Where should the money go?
  • Photography is not a group activity
  • About Cartier-Bresson
  • On Leica cameras
  • Memory, nostalgia and family albums

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