Photographs, Photographers and Photography

Time to update.
Canon has released firmware 1.1.1 for the 5D.
Download is free and installation instructions are included.
Here are the changes:

Here’s the installation in progress:

For me the significant feature is that high capacity 8gB and 16gB cards are now supported. I’m not rushing out to buy these but it’s nice to know I can use […]

Some neat editing.

Panasonic LX-1, 28mm, 1/1000, f/3.6, IS 100
Snapped in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The editor of this little comedy had even gone to the trouble of trying to match the paint color, and while I may not agree with the result, it is every bit as tedious to be constantly reminded of the purported […]

A modern cathedral of commerce.
It may not be quite in the league of the scissors arches at Wells Cathedral in Somerset, but the attention to detail in the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco and the elegant execution holds its own in the world of modern architecture. For whatever reason, these snaps seem to work nicely […]

Did they get anything right in 2.0?
Here, courtesy of Apple’s Software Update utiity, are the ‘enhancements’ (in geek that means ‘bug fixes’) to Aperture 2.1.

With so many mistake corrections, you have to wonder what else is lurking out there. And no mention of whether they have fixed the main Aperture problems - the fact […]

Some very original new work.
I first wrote of Vince Laforet when complimenting his superb photograph of the welder atop one of the Chrysler Building’s gargoyles.

From the April 2008 issue of Condé Nast’s Portfolio. Picture by Vince Laforet.
Click on this link to be directed to his photographs for a piece in Condé Nast Portfolio addressing changes […]

Attempted theft of your images.
My nephew called the other day to say that one of the snaps he had taken on the estate here - a neat one of the zinfandel grapes near harvest - had been used for profit. Though he had released the picture under a Creative Commons license, he had omitted […]