Finishing Off

The last few weeks have been very busy with school holidays and now trying to finish off my Photoshop portfolio for my diploma course. Slow progress and not as enthusiastic as I should be. It takes a lot of time which I don’t really seem to have just now! Less than 10 days until the [...]

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D700 Returned

I was very happy last Friday to collect my D700, back from the camera doctor. Looks as good as new and the sensor is clean again – I don’t suppose that will last though. It feels so different from my old D50, lovely large, bright viewfinder, heavier of course, and having the ISO flexibility so [...]

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Kaikoura in Progress

I took my kids to Kaikoura last weekend, it being the Canterbury Holiday on Friday. Glorious sunny weather and the kids had great fun just playing on the beach, catching seaweed and looking for crabs. We found a great bach (holiday house) with views over the sea and mountains. This ws the view from the [...]

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Monochrome Set

I mentioned a couple of posts ago that I wanted to use some of the images I took at the PSNZ Southern Regional Convention to make a set of images with similar style and processing. As soon as I arrived at the venue and saw the clothes the models were wearing I had two ideas [...]

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Almost Ready

Really busy just now, the final club competition for the year needs to be organised and I am preparing SmuginForAperture and SmuginProForAperture v1.2. Final testing is underway and I am starting to organise the release notes; lots in internal changes which should mean faster and more reliable upload. Stay tuned. I have also been developing [...]

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