Welcome back to the Just for Fun Photography Quiz (or the JFFP Quiz, as I’m renaming it), nearly a month has passed since the last one and a lot has happened in that time, so lets see how up to date and photo savvy you are. Now too many of you got high scores last month so I’m making it a bit harder, good luck and let us know how you got on.
Just for fun Photography Quiz – February 2012
February 21st, 2012A Travel Photographers backup plan
February 20th, 2012There are no hard and fast rules regarding backup plans other than you must have one, no matter what your business involves if you have no way to backup your data you risk loosing everything. Back ups can be very simple and cheap. Online solutions from Dropbox and Sugarsync are free and offer several Gb´s of space, which can be perfect for all kinds of documents.
Unfortunately with the type of work I do online backups are really not an option, I often find myself far away from a decent internet connection, so it simply isn’t possible when I´m traveling and I need an alternative my current plan looks something like this.
I’ve become much more aware of backups over the last 8 months when I had 2 drives fail on me in less than 2 weeks causing me to loose thousands of images, fortunately a rather kind man was able to recover every single image, but believe me it wasn’t a nice feeling.
A funny moment from 2008
February 18th, 2012
Now many of you will have seen images like the one above of the local fisherman who are known for their distinctive, and some what ingenious, rowing style. By standing on one leg and wrapping the other one around the oar they are able to propel the boat. This unique style came about as it gives the fisherman a greater view of his route and is able to better navigate through the thick reeds and floating plants that fill the lake. It also always one hand to be free which can be useful to smoke a cigarette, or wave at tourists.
Now normally I wouldn’t shoot any image that I knew would cause embarrassment, but there are moments in everyone’s life when funny things happen and to not take the photo at those moments would be a real waste. So what happened here well I was on a boat with a fisherman coming towards us, he was really showing off at well he had mastered the leg rowing and was playing up to the boat full of tourists when his longyi (sarong like garment) slowly started slipping down. He grabbed the front of it with his spare hand and burst in to a fit of laughter and carried on rowing.
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ACDSee an often overlooked solution
February 17th, 2012After writing yesterdays blog post where I mentioned the discounts currently available on Lightroom I found out that ACDsee where also offering incredible discounts on there photo management software ACDsee Pro 5, I headed off and downloaded myself a free trial version.
The first thing you will notice about ACDSee compared to either Adobe Lightroom or Aperture from Apple is the speed, ACDSee really does fly though the directories almost instantly displaying large raw files. ACDSee is, unlike Lightroom and Aperture, a database and you don’t have to import the images to view them, you simply browse the directories on your machine. This obviously has negatives too but the positive has to be the incredible speed, even Adobe bridge (which is a similar image browser) comes nowhere near.
I’ve only been playing with ACDSee for a short while but it has almost all of the tools I use in Lightroom and could be a viable alternative for me. It has a comprehensive set of image processing tool such as exposure compensation, saturation adjustments and selective dodge and burn. I really do like Lightroom, but speed is an issue, perhaps this is the solution.
Here’s a preview of what they offer.
Round up
February 16th, 2012So quite a bit has happened over the last couple of weeks, as always I’ll try to keep you updated with the latest.
New DSLR From Nikon
Nikon have announced the [...] Continue Reading…
Taking portraits
February 15th, 2012It comes as no surprise, to me at least, that the people we meet on our travels are the highlight of any trip. Yet why is it that we [...] Continue Reading…
Heading home and a small correction
February 8th, 2012I start this blog post with a small correction in yesterdays blog post where it was stated that I am now 25 years old. This was obviously an error [...] Continue Reading…
It’s my birthday !!
February 7th, 2012Yep 25 at last… 
I’m misusing my blog today for my own selfish means – hope you don’t mind.
Today is also the day that Canon are expected to announce [...] Continue Reading…
Digital workflow – Keywording
February 6th, 2012This is probably the part I enjoy least out of the whole photography process as I really struggle to keep every image up to date in terms of keywords. [...] Continue Reading…
Editting images in Lightroom 3
February 5th, 2012Continuing with the digital work-flow series, lets look at how to edit your images, or at least how I do. Many people misunderstand the work edit and confuse it [...] Continue Reading…
