文書は英語ですが、写真は共通
(though I'm taking a break from blogging for a while)
Archive for the 'General' CategoryGeneral posts In my previous post, Volleyball Is a Difficult Sport to Photograph, I briefly mentioned a few of the troubles I encountered in trying to photograph a volleyball tournament the other day. I'll expand on that a bit in this post. Here are a few of the considerations that the photographer must balance.... Stand close or far? When standing courtside, the action moves very dynamically, swinging from the far left to the far right, from very close to very far, making it difficult to follow and focus. Standing far away and using a big zoom makes it much simpler [...] 
View full post » The preschools in this part of Kyoto had a Momma Volleyball tournament yesterday, and I went along to try my hand at some sports photography. It's really really difficult to photograph volleyball well. I knew it would be difficult, but it turned out to be difficult on so many more levels than I had imagined, and I came away with 6 gigabytes of mostly throwaways. I hope to write about it more in the future, but until I find the time, just a few shots that came out okay. I really love the pose of the spiker in the [...] 
View full post » I've been too busy to post lately, working on, among other things, a followup to the Lightroom metadata-viewer preset builder of my last post (the followup being an application tentatively titled "Jeffrey's Lightroom Configuration Manager"). Being busy doesn't attenuate the desire to share, so I'm dipping into my "blog about this someday" shoebox of photos, this time back to last August when we were visiting our (now former) place in California. We'd arrived in the middle of an oppressive heat wave, leading to some great shots of Anthony playing in the sprinklers that I posted at the time. This post's [...] 
View full post » After publishing my writeup on Digital Image Color Spaces four months ago, I got into a discussion on color spaces and photo-hosting sites with one Chris MacAskill on a forum at Digital Photograph Review. I didn't realize it until today, but it turns out that this Chris MacAskill guy is the president of the popular SmugMug photo-hosting site. Fast-forward a few months to earlier this week, and Chris posted his own comments on the Mac/OSX aspects of the issue. In just a few days, his post got over 100 comments, including some from the main players in this arena. [...]
I've been crushed with work as of late, which is why I haven't been posting much. I've recently started doing some consulting on a high-pressure project, and have continued working with new builds of Adobe Lightroom as it rolls toward its public release in a couple of weeks. Despite being a just 1.x release, it nevertheless offers some interesting ways to customize it, and I've been working on some tools that will help with that, and I want to have them ready for release along with Lightroom. Still, I feel bad not posting something worthwhile, so I went into my [...] 
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