This small cliff railway in Devon is a simple but brilliant bit of engineering. The railway consists of two carriages connected by cables and is powered by the weight of water! The one at the top fills it’s tank with water and the one at the bottom empties out. The extra weight of the one [...]
Archive for October, 2006
Picture #28 – Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway
Posted in Finepix S5600, Photography, Photos on October 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Lightroom – I just want ACR
Posted in Photography, Photoshop on October 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve tried Lightroom and while it will probably a great product one day I don’t need it now. I’ve got a DAM, I can create slide shows, I can produce web galleries, and I have a pixel based editor. I just want to be able to process [...]
The DAM Book
Posted in Photography on October 23, 2006 | 4 Comments »
I’ve just finished reading Peter Krogh’s “The DAM Book” and I can thoroughly recommend it. While the workflow he describes is is based around DNG/Bridge/Photoshop/iView MediaPro the fundamentals can be applied to other software.
So what did I learn from the book?
I’m certainly going to adopt his ‘bucket’ system for storing original and derivative files. [...]
Picture #27 – Robin
Posted in Birds, Finepix S5600, Photography, Photos on October 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I took this one earlier in the year sitting outside a cafe in Padstow. The robins and sparrows there are not wary of humans at all and will take food off the table if you sit still.
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I need a better digital workflow
Posted in Photography on October 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
My current digital photo workflow is getting very disorganised. Since my problems with the Photoshop Elements database I have not been very good at adding tags and organising my photos. Aside from backing them up everything else is very hit and miss. I’m publishing pictures on my Zenfolio gallery and at the moment I have [...]
Picture #26 – Scottish Highlands
Posted in Photography, Photos on October 17, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been looking back through some of my old photos which were taken with a 2 mega-pixel Finepix A204. This was a real point, shoot, and hope for the best camera, but despite the low-res and noise some of the pictures didn’t turn out to bad, so I’m going to slip the odd one in [...]
Picture #25 – Water Tower
Posted in Finepix S5600, Photography, Photos on October 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This is another stitched picture using Hugin but this time it’s a vertical composition. I needed to touch up the join a bit on this one but what do you expect considering this was from handheld pictures?
The subject of the picture is an old concrete water tower that is no longer used. I’m not sure [...]
Picture #24 – Padstow Harbour
Posted in Finepix S5600, Photography, Photos on October 11, 2006 | 1 Comment »
This is the result of stitching 3 handheld JPEGs from my S5600 with the free Hugin software (I never did get round to buying PT assembler – see this post). I output this as a layered PSD file but I did not have to adjust the joins at all. I tried stitching the same thing [...]
Which DSLR should I buy?
Posted in Photography on October 10, 2006 | 2 Comments »
The release of the new 10 mega-pixel DSLRs from Nikon, Canon, and Sony over the last couple of months have got me seriously interested in upgrading from my Fuji Finepix S5600. It’s not that the S5600 takes a bad picture but a DSLR gives a big step up in picture quality especially when the light [...]
Picture #23 – Eating fish and chips
Posted in Finepix S5600, Photography, Photos on October 8, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I was in Padstow recently which is the base of Rick Stein’s catering empire. He has his SeaFood restauarant, cookery school, hotel, several shops and his latest addition a fish and chip shop all in the pretty coastal town. No wonder many of the locals have nick-named the place ‘Padstein’.
Anyway back to the picture. The [...]
