Entries from February 2008

Black and White Conversions

Date February 25, 2008

Sometimes, when taking pictures in poor light, and using high ISOs, the best thing to do is convert to black and white. It gives the effect of grainy film. I’ve got some side-by-sides here.

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How Badly…

Date February 19, 2008

How badly can MS Word 2007 mess up a blog post? I just found this interesting item in Word 2007 that allows you to publish to a blog. This could be interesting, and allow me to do more writing offline (flights, etc). I have tried Microsoft LiveWriter a while ago. It seemed interesting, [...]

Metadata Templates for Bridge/Photoshop

Date February 11, 2008

Every once in a while, I need to batch add copyright notices, or similar disclaimers to images. Not that I’m that good at photography I need to copyright them, but I feel the need is still there. Adobe Bridge has the ability to append/replace metadata in images (EXIF for JPEGs for example) with [...]

NADA 2008

Date February 11, 2008

This year, I got roped into taking part in NADA 2008. While the prospect of doing yet another conference was not so appealing, the prospect of getting to a new city was interesting. This year, NADA is hosted in San Francisco, so the potential of seeing the Golden Gate Bridge was pretty cool, [...]

New Toy…

Date February 4, 2008

A new toy to help me with one of my projects for this year. I’ll have some pictures up shortly.