Levels of Detail

These have actually been in the queue for a long time.. here they finally are. One for Land’s End and another for Point Reyes.

I’ve been pretty happy with smugmug, but today I came across PhotoShelter, which purports to be a smugmug type service meant for Pro photographers. Interesting features include the ability to upload RAW images and that they provide strong backup features.
It had always annoyed me that you couldn’t upload RAW images to smugmug. They probably have […]

I stopped by the Apple store in downtown SF yesterday because we were walking around for a bit. I got a chance to play with Aperture on a G5 PowerMac with the 30 inch display. And to tell you the truth, I wasn’t that impressed. I was expecting/hoping for much improved performance, but it seemed […]

Finally got around to customizing my smugmug page a little bit. Nothing too drastic at this point, just trying to add more shades of gray, get rid of vomit green, and de-emphasize the not-so-important elements.

A BBQ Party with waaaaay too much food, and many hours of grilling.
Pictures
Update:
Claudia’s account and Matt’s account of the weekend.

Well, it looks like Apple might do to the photo world what Final Cut did to the video processing world. Aperture looks pretty damn interesting. It gets many things right, that I’ve sort have been hoping for in raw conversion software:

use of the full screen.. Aperture has its whole interface designed around this
dual […]

With the fullsize keyboard now, I can finall start to use my powerbook in desktop like situations when warranted. This means hooking up my external LCD monitor so that I don’t have to keep looking down at the display. This in turn involves calibrating the display so that hte colors look right.
And then there’s the […]

Went around a bit of Golden Gate Park with a new camera bag and some new lenses to play with. A F1.8 50mm prime, and a 70-210mm long zoom. Here are some of the results.

I guess this place is quickly turning into a place where I just advertise my photos. Anyways, here’s the new batch.

So it looks like there are only three reasonably priced RAW conversion programs for the Mac: Bibble Pro 4.3 (~130$), Capture One LE 3.7.1 ($99), and Nikon Capture 4.3 ($99).
I tried all three, and Capture One LE seems to have the best output. It’s large advantage in my case is that it is very […]