Protect your digital photos

I always back up my photos. I use two external hard disks for that and I also back them up into DVDs. You may think they are enough. But in life who knows?
Swiss Picture Bank is an online service that promises to back up your photos for 30 years for 3 cents per picture. It [...]

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Clean your sensor

I got a dirty sensor. I must confess. My beloved Nikon d70 delivers images with horrible dust specks especially visible in skies and now I find myself spotting and cloning them out in Photoshop more often than ever…
To see if you got a dirty sensor too, you may do this: using a telephoto lens take [...]

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Long time no hear

It’s been quite a long time since I last updated this blog… As I wrote here I lost my mom last August. It was the sad epilogue of what have been a very tough year. All this left me emotionally drained and shocked and it took me some time to realize I had to react [...]

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Paper lens hoods

In need of a lens hood? Visit this site and you will be able to download one right away. No kidding. As they say:
This site contains PDF documents that can be printed and cut out to make lens hoods for a variety of 35mm and digital SLR camera lenses. Lens hoods give better quality [...]

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Converting to B&W – My experience with B&W Styler Pro

I really like B&W photography even though I’ve never really practiced it. With the advent of digital cameras I rediscovered the tremendous visual potential a black and white image can have. I did a web search and found lots of tutorials (here), on how to convert from color to B&W but then I felt the [...]

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Need a website?

I should be posting a recommended site but really haven’t got the time to do so. Here is a quick note I hope you’ll find useful. Have a great week-end!
If you need a quick and easy way to set up a website to show off your works Jimdo may be a nice alternative to Google [...]

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JCap and Preview Extractor – Two useful little programs

If you have many jpg files (but also png and gif) you’ll probably feel the need to add captions and descriptions to your images to easily find them later.
JCap is a free tool that will do just that and even more. It’s a self-contained Java application that requires no external database. Furthermore, captions, descriptions and [...]

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Free Raw importer and converter

Shoot in Raw? Need a free raw importer? Stepok Raw Importer may be for you. This free raw importer and converter supports all major raw files and can also perform batch converting. Worth a try.

Technorati Tags: raw, converter, stepok, software, photography

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Bought myself a Light Tent

Light tents or light cubes are devices that can help you shoot still-life, macro, food or product photography in the comfort of your house, without the need of expensive, professional reflectors and softboxes. They can help diffuse the light to soften shadows and illuminate your subjects with a soft even light.
It’s my intention to [...]

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Show off your work – Gallery tools for your website

As I wrote in my previous post there are many tools and applications that let you set up a photoblog in a breeze. But what if you have your own website and would like to show your photos in a gallery or multiple galleries?
As I speak from personal experience, I will write on how I [...]

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