Category: digitalphotography
Adobe Photoshop Express
While many other sites have been reporting this, I appreciated the concise and specific coverage of the Adobe Photoshop Express beta launch at ars technica.
Photoshop Express looks to offer basic and intermediate level manipulation of images via a flash enabled web interface with immediate support of Facebook, Photobucket, and Picasa. And they have stated that flickr integration is coming. All for the lovely price of free
As a flickr user, I’m not going to be putting a great deal of effort into looking at this in the near-term, but I will be taking a close look at it after it integrates with flickr.
Posted: 03.27.2008Stingy Photographic Tips
One of the things I have been messing with is my photography. Digital photography is an interesting process when compared with film photography. The digital photography provides unparalleled flexibility compared to it’s predecessor. With digital, I can shoot and have a pic on my comp in a few minutes for manipulation. Cropping and post-processing operations are also a hell of a lot easier.
But there in lies the rub. There are so many frickin’ options with digital photography that it’s easy to get lost or not know where to start. I shoot a Nikon D70, it’s not the latest thing on the block but it does a good job at providing pics with a good amount of flexibility. But where does one go with that? Many of the blogs I view have specific looks with owners that guard their post-processing secrets. It reminds me of some of the cooking shows that my wife and I watch. They’ll tell ya what meat they are using, the temperature, and maybe even the cooking process, but trying to get some of the spice combinations they use is next to impossible.
I’m all for experimentation, but I’d honestly love to see some of the blogs I frequent share some specifics on how they post-process their pics.
Posted: 03.18.2008Nikkor 50mm/1.8d Lens
The past few weeks have been very busy for me. Between work, visiting Omaha for the United States Junior Chamber Mid-Year convention, and being sick, I haven’t had much of an opportunity to either visit other sites or update DigiFiend. The schedule crunch continues as I am off to the Boston/New England area for two weeks with my wife to catch a New England Patriots game and watch the leaves change.
Knowing that I would be in a prime photographic spot for a couple of weeks, I decided to go ahead and purchase the Nikkor 50mm/1.8d lens for my Nikon D70 that I had my eye on for a while. The lens has better color saturation, sharpness, and is a great low light lens. It’s been an ajustment going from an 18mm-70mm zoom to a 50mm fixed focal length, but initial pictures I’ve taken with the lens are promising. The above shot was taken indoors with no flash, and yet is incredibly sharp at f2.8.
I’m really looking forward to seeing what this lens can do.
Posted: 10.03.2007Nikon D70 and EXIF Data
One of the first thing I learned about standards is that they usually are anything but. While standards do generally allow things to work better than without them, there always seems to be a caveat or catch involved.
I found this out while deciding to clean up my photo posts on Digifiend earlier today. I like the idea of posting some details about photographs, things like location, shutter speed, f-stop, focal length, and yes ISO. Well as it turns out, somewhere along my merry editing process, the EXIF data for ISO gets wiped off my photos. Nikon sticks this the ISO information in a backwater section of the EXIF data called “Makers Notes” and it doesn’t seem to survive the processing process at least according to Opanda and Exiftool.
Not a huge deal, but there always seems to be a catch.
Posted: 04.12.2007