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Canon 50D Video Tutorial: Quick Control Screen

Canon 50D video tutorial series: this one focuses on using the Quick Control Screen.
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Canon 50D Video Tutorial Tips

Back in December when I first got my Canon 50D, I wrote a blog about some of my favorite features on the camera. As a follow-up to that blog post, I decided to create some video tutorials about those and other features I wrote about. Read more…

FlickrExport 3 Released

FlickrExport 3 is available from connectedflow.com. There are several new features in this release, but the main ones include:

- Create a photoset with your uploaded images and set the photoset image order separately from the upload order. Read more…

In the World of Mac Photography

From time to time, I will post links to other interesting Mac related photo tips.
Here’s my first five:

1. What To Know About iPhoto ‘09 Face Detection and Recognition [Apple]

2. Aperture for Nature Photographers Read more…

Canon’s Live View Mode at Apple’s Keynote

Note: I wrote this article during the week of Macworld ’09, but I never got around to posting it. But since the topic is really not about Macworld itself, but about the Canon 50D, it’s still a topical piece.

There’s much that I could say about the lackluster product announcements at this year’s Macworld ’09, but I’d prefer to wear my photographer’s hat and focus on my use of the Live View feature of the Canon 50D camera during the Apple keynote at Macworld. Read more…

iPhoto’s Flickr and Facebook Export Feature

If you’re a regular Flickr.com or Facebook.com user, you no doubt use some sort of uploading client to post your photos to your account. The latest upgrade of iPhoto ’09 includes built-in Flickr and Facebook exporting features that are useful but very incomplete. The export buttons are found in iPhoto’s toolbar, and they work similarly to the MobileMe web gallery features of iPhoto. Read more…

Using iPhoto ’09′s Adjust Tool

With digital photography, it’s every easy to take several hundreds of photos at a time, with no added expense. But just because you take 500 vacation photos doesn’t mean you have to process them all. You can choose some of your best photos from the shoot and take a little extra time to improve upon them using iPhoto’s post-production tools. Apple has made the exposure and color adjustment process in iPhoto fairly easy and in some cases less time consuming than working in Adobe Photoshop Elements or one of the larger CS programs. This article will describe how to use the Adjust tool on an average photo. Read more…

Does iPhoto’s Faces Really Work?

After purchasing Apple’s new iLife ’09 suite of software, the first feature I wanted to explore is iPhoto’s Faces. It has been one of the most talked about and anticipated features of iPhoto ’09. Similar to the face recognition technology found in newer digital compact cameras, faces attempts to scan all your images in your iPhoto library and identify individual faces in them. Macworld attendees oohed and awed the feature when Phil Shciller presented it in early January. Read more…