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This post is about a new camera-bag solution I'm trying, and so far like, involving an unconventional use of a Think Tank Photo Retrospective® Lens Changer 3 shoulder bag. You can see it at my side in the photos above. I usually bring just a few lenses when I'm out with the camera, often a [...]
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I like heading off on my scooter into the mountains of Japan to explore and take pictures, but am often out of cell range, so the map on my iPhone can't update. I like the idea of having maps with me, and until someone can invent a way to make a map on paper or [...]
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I went out for a bit today with the Big Lens. Nothing too exciting, but a few pleasant shots... This post's last shot reminds me strongly of the last shot on "Cherry-Blossom Joie de Vivre in Kyoto" from four years ago.
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Before After "Chipping" my Nikon-Mount Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 As most folks guessed correctly in my golden bumpy "What am I?" quiz, the object is a lens CPU chip/contacts set. I'm surprised so many people knew what it was because I had no idea they existed until recently. It allows one to update an old lens [...]
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Well, this is surprising: iOS does not seem to be color managed. At all. This is a long and technical article. Here's the table of contents: Introduction Color Management Embedded Color-Profile Support Device-Specific Color Profiles The Curiously-Deficient "SpyderGallery" App What's Next One Last Caveat Introduction #post1964 p.h { margin-top: 60px; font-size: 130% } With all [...]
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So I was going through the photos from last weekend's Kyoto Marathon （京都マラソン２０１２) and came across an out-of-focus shot that I'd normally just delete, but it had some kind of odd sense of space about it that I found somehow appealing, and wondered whether I couldn't use some funky processing to turn the lack of [...]
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Some random desktop backgrounds in my photo library from the past year. I used these as practice with the new render engine in Lightroom 4, which I like but am not completely used to yet. Often, a photo here is from some trip or event that I already blogged about; the "nearby photos" link under [...]
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So picking up from my previous post about the Kyoto Marathon （京都マラソン２０１２), once the runners started arriving, I practiced taking photos. The depth of field with this lens is so incredibly thin that it's only luck that I got anything, but like hitting the lottery to get something so close like the next shot: It [...]
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As I mentioned in my previous post, yesterday was the Kyoto Marathon （京都マラソン２０１２). I thought it'd be a fun experience to photograph, to see what I could come up with. The first challenge was to pick a location along the 42-kilometer course that was both photogenic and accessable. (Huge swaths of the city were shut [...]
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Today was the Kyoto Marathon （京都マラソン２０１２). The guy above, looking remarkably affable and relaxed, was not only leading the race at the 35km mark (about 80% of the way done), but had a full 30-second lead on second place, and more than a minute on third. I have no idea whether he ended up winning [...]
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Taking a break from the craziness that ensued for me yesterday when Lightroom 4 was released, I thought I'd pick up from last month's "Setsubun Festival at the Heian Shrine: Intense Burn Begins". Once the blaze was going in earnest, they started throwing bundles of wooden slats into the fire, each slat with someone's wish [...]
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After a two-month public beta, Adobe has just released Lightroom 4.0. It's not a free upgrade, but with the price now cut in half (upgrades are now $80), it's an easy decision.* There's a lot new if you're coming from Lr3, the most important likely being the new rendering engine. Laura Shoe has a post [...]
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It's been a while since I last posted about the traditional Japanese archery event that I attended last month. I left off a while ago with "Traditional Japanese Archery: More Ladies, Part 2", and you can see all the posts about the event via any of the "nearby photos" link under each picture. The main [...]
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Three and a half months ago, after a lot of research and Lightroom plugin development, I published the long writeup "How To Best Export Lightroom Images to an iPad, iPhone, Etc.", about my Lightroom-to-iPad workflow at the time. It's now completely out of date. Most everything about my workflow has changed, all of it for [...]
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Among the photos on "Intense Burn Begins", my most recent post about the Setsubun festival at the Heian Shrine earlier this month, was Ripples, showing a thin slice of focus in the tumultuous heated hair near the burning pyre. This post is a bunch more of the same, just 'cause I think it's interesting. What [...]
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I'm looking for recommendations for a photo-viewing app for my iPad; Apple's "Photos" app has too many bugs and limitations for my needs. What I want seems simple -- an elegant way with which to impose my photos onto someone hapless to come within an eyeball's reach of me -- but I haven't found it [...]
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Continuing with posts about the Setsubun Festival at the Heian Shrine (Kyoto, Japan) earlier this month, following on from "Attack (and Repulsion) of the Evil Spirits" and "Beans of Good Fortune", we move on to the bonfire event. I covered the same event four years ago in "Intense Burn: Shinto Rite at the Heian Shrine", [...]
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I released two new plugins for Adobe Lightroom today, my Folder Publisher and Collection Publisher. They're what my old "Tree Publisher" plugin should have been, with many extras. They allow you to replicate the folder or collection hierarchy in Lightroom out to local disk, and optionally even FTP the results somewhere. I was never happy [...]
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Still busy working on Lightroom plugins, so just a short post today on the next phase of the Setsubun festival last week at the Heian Shrine. After demons representing the ills of the past year were banished, the next step was wishing good forutune for the next year with another bean-centric event. I posted about [...]
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Continuing from this weekend's Setsubun Festival at the Heian Shrine in Kyoto, with nasty demons representing the ills of the past year, being banished in the hope of a better year to come... I captioned the third picture with "Door, slightly misleading" because, as you can see in the final photo, what look like door [...]
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