I’ve been reading The Strobist for a bit now, and realized that I’d just missed last year’s Lighting 101. Apparently he’s running a second course this year (aptly named Lighting 102). I picked myself up a few goodies. All but one of the items was from eBay.

The Nikon SB-800 [...]

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I’ve been renting a Nikon 105mm VR Macro lens from ZipLens, and got to take a trip to Dallas Arboretum last weekend. This is one of the shots with the lense. I have this one as my desktop at the moment. I quite like it. Very nice bright orange-yellow. There [...]

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Managed to get out over the weekend to the Dallas zoo. Quite busy due to Radio Disney putting on a bit of a show, but I managed to get some pictures taken. This is one of the lioness at the zoo. I have more in my [1].

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I’ve not had a chance to watch all of them, but I watched a segment called “Photowalking“, with a San Francisco photographer. It’s great to see the work, and how he does things. My only criticism of it would be Robert Scoble not having a microphone on himself. Questions from behind the [...]

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A few weeks ago, we went to San Antonio Zoo for a day trip. I have finally had a chance to go through, and upload some of the images from the trip. This is one of my favourite images. There are more here.

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I have been curious about building “the ultimate Linux Desktop” for a while, but one of the requirements would be support for my Nikon D70s. As I shoot in RAW format, and that is usually propitiatory per camera manufacturer (Nikon is NEF), some special software is required, so I googled for “Linux Nikon RAW”, [...]

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I’ve been contemplating playing with a little food photography recently, just some small little projects. I used to enjoy watching my uncle work. He’s had a large amount of work published in a variety of books. It was inspiring watching his creativity. So for some headstarts, I’ve been looking at some [...]

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Been wondering how to do this as I’m terrible at over exposing parts, and not others. This little walk-through shows you how to fix parts of an image, and includes a perfect example that fits quite well into how I seem to always screw up images.

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I really do. I quite like my D70s. It’s taking a little getting used to, lots more buttons, and the size is bigger than my N65, but now it feels right at home in my hand, the grip feels great. I only have a little trouble getting to some of the buttons, [...]

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Arrived today is my new Nikon D70s. Lots of pictures, and fun coming soon.

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