Almost Portraits

I had great intentions of a long post on lighting for portraits. I was asked to do a talk for my camera club on Monday evening and I went fully prepared – with speed lights, umbrella, soft box and my old PowerBook so that I could shoot tethered; demonstrating the effects of changing lighting. This [...]

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Family Portraits Are Hard

A couple of weekends ago I was trying to take some photos of my family, I have decided that this is hard. My kids have quite different personalities, this is pretty normal! One loves have her picture taken (usually at least) and can even be persuaded not to make too many silly faces. Not that [...]

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Shaken Again

Almost 6 months after the last big earthquake here in Christchurch we have suffered a second. On Tuesday 21st February at 12:51pm the ground again decided to shake, this time a 6.3 magnitude quake but closer to the city and shallower. Last time the quake happened at night, no one was about but this time [...]

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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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After the Convention

So last weekend we had the PSNZ Southern Regional Convention 2010, great fun was had by al, at least I hope so. It was a good convention with interesting and entertaining speakers in Grant Sheehan (Phantom House Publishing) and Andrew Goodall (Nature’s Image Photography) and a fun field trip to Akaroa. In particular the stop at [...]

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