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Lighting for photographers

A quick note, partly so that I can find this info again:

Strobox is a place for all types of photographers to share how they set up that amazing photo! The easiest way to learn is to look at photos and their lighting diagrams so you can see for yourself how they were created.

Strobox is an iPhone App that allows you to record a diagram of how you set up your lighting in a particular shot or shoot. It also provides a community where people can share information about how they took a particular image in terms of lighting. This might be a way for me to learn about artificial lighting – as I have little experience in that (I don’t even own a flash at present).

Fotopedia

Fotopedia.com is a photography-centric encyclopedia founded in 2009. It aims to provide a dynamically growing collection of high-quality photos on topics that are of general interest like Barcelona (travel) FC Barcelona (sports, fans) Antoni Gaudí (architecture), but even Barcelona Metro (whatever around the corner). It should attract the types of audience that Wikipedia.org attracts, but [...]

Slow iPad backup issue

The problem The “backup iPad” function in iTunes backs up only one or two files per second. This is no problem for large files (which may take longer), but particularly applies to very small files. Some applications have hundreds or even thousands of such small files. One application consisted of 80 MBytes made up of [...]

NAS and Lightroom performance

My digital photos are stored on an inexpensive NAS. This CH3SNAS consists of dual 3.5″ SATA drives of, in my case, 1 TByte each. Each drive contains a copy of each photo (RAID 1) for robustness. Lightroom 3 maintains a catalog of these photos (with associated keywords, metadata and a cache of previews) on the [...]

Photo book on Egypt

Our photo book on Egypt is nearing completion: as I will need a total of 10 copies (at about $100 each, hard cover, 30×30 cm = 12″×12″) for members of our group, a prototype copy has been completed, has been reviewed, and we are approaching the point of no return (for a $1000 order). Upper [...]

iPAD usability study

The Nielsen Norman Group published a study of the iPAD’s ease-of-use. Nielsen Norman specializes in usability research for software and web sites. They say this study is a bit preliminary, but is based on: expert reviews. This includes checking the user interface against the company’s general usability guidelines. monitoring seven users trying to execute tasks on [...]

Reinstalling Vista on a Toshiba laptop

I own a Toshiba convertible tablet PC: the Toshiba Portégé M400. It’s main claim to fame is that you can use a special pen-shaped stylus as an alternative to a mouse or touch pad. It is thus a laptop you can actually use efficiently on your lap that dates back to the pre-iPad days. It [...]