Flash the Heineken Cup
Just returned from an assignment today, so this one’s fresh off my camera, the flash units having barely cooled down. I was hired to take some pictures of...
Year: 2011
Hidden iPhoto keyboard commands to edit layouts!
This is just to make small discovery public (I didn’t find this anywhere else). When creating books in iPhoto, you can fine tune and edit layouts by using...
Even lenses may need a shave!
Why would you wilfully ruin the warranty of a lens? Well, if you’re mad into panoramic photography, that’s just the thing to do. I’ve stuck fo...
Small repro shoot
On the weekend I got asked by a good friend if I could help digitising some large format artworks. I knew the rough basics of reproduction photography, so I jum...
Fisheye vs. wide angle lenses for shooting spherical panoramas
Here’s a post which is designed to save me a couple of emails per month, so please bear with me. I often get asked (usually by people who saw my panoramic...
PANTONE is a nice company
I’d like to quickly report a great customer service experience. About 4 years ago, I got myself a PANTONE huey to colour-calibrate my monitors. This is pa...
Would you like some fish?
Here’s another weee trick that I came up with a couple of years back (but I’m sure other people must have discovered this too). I stated earlier tha...
Panorama video tutorials (5)
Here’s part 5 (but there’ll be at least one more soon) of my little panoramic photography tutorial series. I’m showing two techniques how to e...
Pssst, don’t tell anyone!
Here’s a trick that I heard about a couple of years back and that I use every now and then. Have you ever had a nice “keeper” image but that w...
Panorama video tutorials (4)
Here’s part 4 of my little panoramic photography tutorial series. This time around we are dealing with the images shot from the tripod, so we need a coupl...