Month: August 2015

Cool new battery pack from Goal Zero!

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Ove on my other website, Shutter Muse, I just posted a Goal Zero Venture 30 battery pack review. You can head over there for the full rundown, or you can watch the video review from YouTube right here on the blog. Cool piece of kit!

How to combine PDFs on a mac

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Today I wanted to share a quick video with you guys that I think many people will find useful. I know this doesn’t have much to do with photography, but if you run a photo business then at some point you’re going to need to combine PDF pages. It might be a contract, it might be a digital contact sheet or you might be appending receipts to an invoice. No, it’s not sexy, but it IS darned useful and it’s so simple if you’re a Mac user. Sorry PC folks, I don’t use one so I can’t help you guys I’m afraid.

Canon’s New 35mm f/1.4 II

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Canon has just launched an MK II version of their 35mm f/1.4 L lens, and it should be a beauty. Here are the details.

Sad News From IndyCar

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As a motorsport fan, and sometime motorsport photographer, it’s a sad day when someone gets killed doing what they love. Today is one of those days as we hear the news that British IndyCar driver, Justin Wilson, has succumbed to the head injuries he sustained yesterday at the Pocono Raceway…

New “For Sale” page added

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I’ve added a new page to the site where I will occasionally list the gear that I have for sale. I’m often turning over my camera gear so that I can test new items out, so this should come in useful, and there’s several items on there already…

Notes from a month on the road

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Having recently spent a month away from my home and office, I thought I’d write down a few notes about photography “on the road”. That kind of time away from usual surroundings is a surefire way to reveal weaknesses in workflow and gear, and a few things stood out to me so I thought I’d share them.

Gear Check: Giottos Mini Rocket Blower

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I’ve been on a pretty big kick recently to lighten my load when I’m on the road, and I’ve added this Giottos mini Rocket Blower to my travel kit (under $10 from Amazon).  Now, technically this doesn’t shave too much weight from my kit, but in this case it does cut down the volume by about 50% from my other standard sized Rocket Blower.  As airlines continue to decrease baggage allowances, every little helps. Why carry a Rocket Blower anyway? Whilst all cameras these days come with a built-in sensor vibration function to shake off dust, every now and again …

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New Way To Subscribe

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I’ve made a few changes and added a new way to subscribe to the blog so that you never miss anything important!

Day #10 | Macro Challenge

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Day #10 of my Stay Out There 10-Day Challenge!  This means it’s the last day of the Creative Cloud Photography plan giveaway as well.  You’ve got until midnight tonight to enter it at the bottom of this blog post. Earlier in this series I mentioned that you can use lenses on your mobile phone to create vastly different perspectives. In that post I talked about the amazing Olloclip iPhone macro lenses and showed a couple of pretty cool examples of extreme close-up shots.  Those lenses take things to extremes, but you can still get macro-like shots with most mobile phones …

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Day #9 | Chasing Your Photography Dreams

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  For Day #9 of my Stay Out There 10-Day Challenge, I want to share a little bit of my own story and talk about chasing your own photographic dreams. People always tell me that I’m “so lucky” to do what I do, but the reality is that there was very little luck involved at all.  I know that when most people say that, they don’t necessarily mean luck in the traditional sense of the word, like rolling a dice, but they still talk about it as if it’s something that they could never do themselves. I’ve met many people who …

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