Posted in Photography, Photos, Samsung GX-10 on August 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is the RNLI’s Spirit of Padstow lifeboat leaving Padstow harbour into the Camel estuary. You can read all about it, view webcams, and see more pictures of the lifeboat and their futuristic looking lifeboat station on their web site at http://www.padstow-lifeboat.org.uk/2006/SpiritofPadstowOS.htm.
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Posted in Photos on August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yes I know he’s a famous chef and the fish and chips from his Padstow ‘chippy’ are really, really good, but would you stand at the end of this queue to buy them? This was the queue at 6:30 pm last Sunday. Do people actually think he’s in there cooking them himself! We walked into another [...]
Posted in LightRoom, Photography on August 21, 2007 | 8 Comments »
I run Lightroom on my laptop and since I started shooting RAW with my Samsung GX-10 the hard drive is filling up pretty quickly. I didn’t want the hassle of fitting a bigger internal drive so I thought I would see if I could get Lightroom to work with an external USB hard drive. This [...]
Posted in Photography, Samsung GX-10 on August 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the manual for the Samsung GX-10 (and the Pentax K10D) there are some formulas for working out the minimum and maximum distances the built-in flash will illuminate for different combinations of aperture and ISO. By increasing the ISO or opening the aperture the distance the flash will cover is increased.
The following tables show the [...]
Posted in Photography, Samsung GX-10 on August 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In the manual for the Samsung GX-10 (and the Pentax K10D) there are some formulas for working out the minimum and maximum distances the built-in flash will illuminate for different combinations of aperture and ISO. By increasing the ISO or opening the aperture the distance the flash will cover is increased.
The following tables show the [...]
Posted in Photography, Photos, Samsung GX-10 on August 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
These were taken during our ‘walk on the wild side’ at Cricket St Thomas wildlife park. He’s called Bigboy and is an unusually docile male green iguana. He happily posed on his tree and allowed us to stroke him.
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Posted in Photos, Photoshop, Samsung GX-10 on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The more I use the Tamron 18-250mm lens on my Samsung GX-10 the more I like it. These pictures were taken in really sunny conditions and I think the detail captured is excellent for this type of zoom lens. For the pixel peepers out there I’ve added a 100% crop of the eye from the [...]
Posted in Photography, Photos, Samsung GX-10 on August 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well not quite, but I’d love to see one with triplets!
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Posted in LightRoom, Photography on August 8, 2007 | 5 Comments »
If you’re new to Lightroom you’re going to have questions and one place to find plenty of answers is the Adode Photoshop Lightroom Forum. It’s a user-to-user forum where everyone tries to help each other, at least that’s the plan.
The first thing you’ll learn is that the ‘Automatically write changes into XMP’ option while seeming [...]
