A few years ago, I invested in a Godox TT685s flash unit, a TT350s flash unit and X1Ts transmitter for my Sony A7III camera. Despite their potential, I rarely use them, leading to some forgetfulness about configuring their wireless transmitters. A helpful YouTube video brought back memories of the necessary […]
Photography
Uh oh. Is adobeyourshotyourstory.com gone astray?
This morning I saw a notification on the Adobe “Creative Cloud” app I can get pro tips for photographing people…. etc etc. I thought it was the usual material Adobe brings out, which to be fair, is quite good, so I clicked it. It’s odd that the news item is […]
Photography
GraXpert fixes your Astro shots
Hot off my RSS feeds is GraXpert which I found through this Fstoppers article. It corrects colour tints and gradients in astrophotography shots. I don’t do much astrophotograpy: But when I do, I get colour tints from nearby towns and cities, or I add it myself thinking it looked better. […]
Photography
TIL to search date ranges in Google Photos
I learned something new about Google Photos. I can examine the photos taken between two dates by entering #date_range:YYYYMMDD-YYYYMMDD in the search box. I have images going back more than twenty years in Google Photos so a way to view a selection of those images is really useful! I haven’t […]
Photography
Drag the Lightroom Histogram
I discovered yesterday (or maybe rediscovered?) that you can drag the histogram in Lightroom to adjust the exposure of a photo. From right to left, these are the sliders affected when you drag: It can appear like a blunt, inaccurate tool to modify the exposure of a photo, but do […]
Photography
Adjust the time on your camera for daylight saving
If you’re in this part of the world, then daylight savings means the clocks went back an hour last weekend. Your phone adjusted itself, as did some other gadgets, but your oven probably didn’t, and your camera almost certainly didn’t update either. I couldn’t possibly describe how to fix the […]
Photography
Edna Egbert on the Ledge
Well, I bought several books recently. They’re all photography books, but I wanted to share one photo from the book I bought yesterday. The book is New York exposed : photographs from the Daily News, and you can read it online on archive.org or buy it in a few places […]
Photography
The best way to browse Instagram
Instagram is becoming a video site (mirror) like TikTok, isn’t it? I want to see photos when I go to Instagram. I don’t want to see reel after reel from suggested accounts just because I liked something random. I only ever post photos on Instagram, so this is a shout […]
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My dog is the master of this
Any time we go out Diego does his best to let us know that we can not possibly go out without him. This is why I’ve been spotted carrying him around supermarkets in a special carrier bag, or been booted out of other supermarkets for having him in that bag […]
Photography
The old Nik Collection is still free
Nik Collection 4.0 was announced recently but comments here say that if you have a previous version it always shows an update warning that can’t be turned off. Within a couple weeks of usage, I received the on-screen notification when launching the software below telling me to update. However, clicking […]