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Sime is the administrator of the DPS Forums and lead blogger in our Cameras and Gear Blog. Visit his blog and site to view more of his writing and work at gtvone.com.
Have you ever had a memory card fail on you? You’ve spent some time photographing an occassion, you’ve done your best and you’re excited about getting the images onto your screen and checking them out. You plug in your memory card and import your photos only to find half of them corrupt! or, even worse [...]
500GB of it to be precise! the good folk over at ioSafe have landed a 500GB ioSafe Solo on my desk and we’ve decided to give it to one of you! (How nice are we) But let’s tell you about the drive first! This isn’t just any regular external hard disk drive, it’s “special” – [...]
These days there are many good options available for RAW conversion software. Photoshop has Adobe Camera Raw, Adobe also has Lightroom and Apple’s offering of Aperture being a few popular choices. However the professional photographers software of choice for many years has been Capture One which is made by PhaseOne who you may recognise from [...]
In this post Sime asks Ste’ to review Photo Mechanic by Camera Bits .
I’m not a professional photo journalist, however, I do tend to hang around with a number of them and I know for a fact that most of them rabbit on about their work flow and how it can be a real nightmare [...]
I’d like to start this press release with a spot of controversy!
Following the release yesterday of the new Nikon D300s dSLR camera and a couple of lenses (you can download Nikon’s podcast on the releases here) I was chatting on twitter last night to a few mates and suddenly I came out with this gem [...]
Just when you thought that no more could be done with the humble photograph, I’ve gone and found another website that turns your photographs into pieces of hand drawn art! The difference being, that these are being done by a real person. I’ve seen the paintings that this young woman has produced for myself and [...]
Close your eyes…. The phone rings, it’s the editor for the largest news paper in your area, he’s calling because he’s heard you’re a gun for hire and that you’re very good with your camera and a long lens. He know’s his stuff, he’s seen your work on flickr and he wants YOU to fill [...]
Fluid Mask 3 is designed for photographers, image editors, graphic designers and all those who take digital image editing seriously.
In a streamlined interface and workflow, Fluid Mask 3 instantly shows key edges in the image and provides comprehensive easy to use tools that work with difficult-to-see edges and tricky areas like trees & lattices.It is [...]
A little while back I reviewed the “Ray Flash” A very cool “hook on the front of your flash, ring flash” A lot of people commented that it was expensive and so on… Well, here’s an alternative model, the Orbis Ring Flash Attachment, for Use with Existing Flash / Strobe,
It’s only $10.00 cheaper but hey, [...]
The topic of GPS in relation to tagging photos is one that seems to be coming up a lot these days. “Is it worth it” “Is it beneficial” “Why would you?” Then there’s the whole privacy thing “Why would I want someone knowing where I take my photos” some people even going as far as [...]