2008 December

Archive for December, 2008

5 Canon 50D Function Features I Like

Before the year is out, I thought I’d upgrade my Canon 30D to the Canon 50D, to take advantage of, among other reasons, the little tax write off and the financing deal offered by Circuit City. But my financial objectives are not the reason I’m writing about Canon 50D. Read more…

Simple Out of Focus Background Technique

Thanks to Photoshop and other image processing applications, we can improve our photographs in ways that are not always possible when we’re doing the actual job of shooting photos on location. Here’s a particular example I wanted to share that is easy to apply to similar images. Read more…

Automatically View Your Photos on Your Computer

I’ve written about a really great gadget called Eye-fi, an SD memory card that wirelessly uploads photos taken in digital camera. You can read my review here.

Though this card is popularly used for uploading photos to a designated photo website, I use it primarily for nearly instant viewing of photos on my desktop or laptop computer. When Eye-fi uploads my images to my computer, I use a little application called Hazel which automatically opens up imported photos in my designated Eye-fi folder on my computer. Read more…