Today is slow and almost all of our shopping is done. So I am going through my photos this evening and notices something. I purchased my Nikon D60 in May 2008 and have been using Photoshop Elements since then. My external 1TB WorldBook is where I keep my photos and PSE keeps a tally of [...]
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Flash diffusers
I don’t (yet) own a flash so from time to time I use the built in pop-up flash. This produces harsh light so I picked up the Puffer by Gary Fong. It’s a diffuser that softens up the flash and I’ve been thinking of getting is for a week or two. Here is an example [...]
Nikon D60 and auto ISO
I got to learn about a useful DSLR feature called auto ISO. A friend brought in his mint Nikon D90 and let me play with it. He had on the Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 HSM macro lens and I was really impressed. It’s not a D700 but for someone like me it’s really good. Low noise [...]
Ken Rockwell likes the Nikon D90
Ken Rockwell reviews the Nikon D90 and likes it. I have the D60 and I’m thinking of trading mine in. It’s faster and I’d be able to use non AF-S lenses…
Went to the American Air Power Museum today
Lily went to the U.S. Open today with our son, so I took the girl to the American Air Power Museum. She had fun and I took some good pictures. I’ve just made this one my desktop image. It came out much better that I thought it would. The P-51 Glamorous Gal was not able [...]
Geotagging on Flickr with loc.alize.us
Since the Disney trip, I’ve been playing around with the camera more than ever. Marking your photos with geographical location info is cool and I’m thinking of getting a GPS fob/software combination. In my searching I located this discussion on Flickr. It’s a bookmarklet (that is NOT a word) that lets you easily insert map [...]
Raw NEF files and WD's MyBook
I take pictures in Nikon’s raw NEF format because I can use Photoshop Element’s raw importer to tweak the exposure, clarity, black level, etc. But the NEF files are often 9 MB files and I have almost 3,000 of them and that’s just since May. That came out to 22 GB’s and counting. Even cleaning [...]
Disney and digital photography
The whole family came back from Disney World Wednesday and here are some of my notes for the pictures I took. From Thursday the 26th to Wednesday the 2nd I took 1,600+ pictures with my Nikon D60. What I have been doing since I got back is going through each vacation day and selecting photos [...]
Getting into photography
I’ve been playing around with the D60 and some digital editing. Nothing much, just minor adjustments and cropping. Since I’m doing such minor editing I don’t bother purchasing any photo applications like Adobe Photoshop Elements. The freely available Paint.NET is more than enough for me so far and the more I look at it, the [...]
Memorial Day Weekend
This was one busy weekend. Friday and Saturday was spent going and coming back from Strasburg, PA. Sunday we had a family BBQ with friends over. Today we went to the city and saw the USS Kearsarge. It’s in port as part of fleet week in the city. Lily took our son last year Friday [...]
