Three Basics of Photography

A quick YouTube video from JMatthewGore covering the three basics of photography, aperture, shutter speed, and iso. More information available on LightAndMatter.org

Adobe Lightroom 4 - features, and video

I know it's "old hat" to some of you out there, but I'm finally getting round to reviewing and using Adobe Lightroom 4.
It's currently in the beta testing phase, but I've been hearing alot about it from the likes of Scott Bourne - Photofocus.com, and Scott Kelby - Kelby Training.

I'm most looking forward to the new features:-

Highlight and shadow recovery brings out all the detail that your camera captures in dark shadows and bright highlights.

Photo book creation with easy-to-use elegant templates.

Location-based organization lets you find and group images by location, assign locations to images, and display data from GPS-enabled cameras.

White balance brush to refine and adjust white balance in specific areas of your images.

Additional local editing controls let you adjust noise reduction and remove moiré in targeted areas of your images.

Extended video support for organizing, viewing, and making adjustments and edits to video clips.

Easy video publishing lets you edit and share video clips on Facebook and Flickr®.

Soft proofing to preview how an image will look when printed with color-managed printers.

Email directly from Lightroom using the email account of your choice.

Scott Kelby has uploaded a youtube video of his recent trip to India, and the KelbyMediaGroup video shows you some of the new features of Lightroom 4, and a brief glimpse into Scott's thoughts during his workflow - a must watch !

Scott's Visit to India - The Grid 18th January 2012

Quick baby photoshoot

A quick photoshoot over at a friends house on 15th October 2011.

I'm still finding my feet as to getting the setup right, I think I'll need to get my hands on some studio gear, and some backdrops for high and lowkey shots.

Canon Printer Ink Chip Resetter - youtube video

Further comments:

But make sure before you get a resetter that it is for the correct cartridges.
It seems European, American, and Asian printers use cartridges that have different chips.
For example, printers using CLI-221 and PGI-220 in America, use CLI-521 and PGI-520 in Europe. For some reason a different chip resetter is required here vs. Europe.