If you have a bit of time this morning (January 24), you can head on over to Kelby TV and watch the big unveiling and demo of the new Nikon D4. I’m pretty excited about the technology although I won’t ever be able to afford this. The interesting thing is that that it features a [...]
Once again, I was blessed to be able to attend CES in Las Vegas this January. The company I own – BCCHardware.com, managed to scrape together enough money to secure a house where a total of five of us stayed and took in North America’s largest tech show. This year marked Microsoft’s last keynote and [...]
Lisa Bettany over at MostlyLisa has put together a great article covering six things that every photographer (budding or professional) consider when taking photos this year. Her 6 picks are: I will learn how to use my gear. I will practice my technical skills. I will take more pictures. I will not be limited by [...]
Online galleries are fully of over saturated HDR pictures that consists more of exposure blending that actual “High Dynamic Range” processing. Still, the effect is pretty interesting and if done properly – doesn’t look horrible and can enhance a photo. The downside is that many people overuse HDR and saturate too much for an unrealistic [...]
One of the highlights of YC Alberta 2010 was of couse the band lineup. This year, bands included Bluetree, Matt Maher, Leeland, Manafest, Jason Upton, Thousand Foot Krutch, Disciple and Skillet. Bluetree hails from Belfast, Ireland and they led many of the worship sets and even mingled with the students and staff in attendance over [...]
It looks like Canon is filing a patent to do some “good” in camera HDR in the near future and they have redone the way HDR is done in order to do this on-the-fly. Typically, High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography is done by post-processing a few different exposures onto a single image. Canon is doing [...]
Product: SanDisk 16GB Extreme Pro CompactFlash Card Provided By: SanDisk Price: Find Lowest Price Online Introduction: CompactFlash cards are not very popular anymore as Secure Digital cards are typically much cheaper. That being said, pro-sumer Digital SLR cameras as well as full Professional SLR cameras use CompactFlash as it seems to be more reliable and [...]
While winter brings its own beauty, I often find myself uninspired to take out my camera when it gets cold outside. I was looking through a few of winter pictures that I’d taken last year and hope to get inspired to try out my 300S this winter. Here in Alberta we are currently sitting under [...]
I’m a junkie… It’s an addiction that I can’t put away and unfortunately costs a whole lot. I’m talking about photography and although you can’t always chase after the latest and the greatest gear, sometimes there comes along a nifty piece of hardware or software that is worth the money. I recently purchased the onOne [...]
This evening (Sunday, September 13) marks episode #8 of Weekly Tech Update and tonight we will be having Daniel Guenter on the show. He is a computer programmer, runs a cool programming blog – slagd.com and is actually my web host. Tonight we will be talking about Microsoft’s Open Source Initiative, PS3 Sales and 24 [...]
