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
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 […]
Android
Save space by resizing Google Photos
On the 1st of June 2021, Google Photos stopped offering free storage. Google Photos is a fantastic service, but at the rate I take photos I knew I’d fill the remaining gigabytes of storage in a matter of months, so I stopped uploading photos from my phone. I don’t regard […]
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 […]
Tech
Lightroom Classic does not have access to some Standard folders.
I have found a brand new error in Lightroom that doesn’t appear in search engines yet. It started happening after the update today. There are similar error messages reported on the Adobe forums, but not this one. Unfortunately, the “Learn More” link goes to a URL that quickly changes to […]
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 […]
Tech
Google Photos ends free storage tomorrow
Google Photos will start counting your uploads against a storage limit from tomorrow. Make sure you upload anything you’ve been meaning to upload in the next few hours! Also go into your shared albums and click the “Save photos” button if you want “local” copies of any photos shared with […]