Tips & Tricks – March 29, 2021
Bob Fowler gave a general overview of various digital editing features found in most programs.
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Tips & Tricks – November 2, 2020
Bob Fowler gave an overview of some advancements in “computational photography.”
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Tips & Tricks – April 29, 2019 Scanning with your Smartphone
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Tips & Tricks – April 8, 2019 AI and Some Recent Photography Software
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Tips and Tricks February 4, 2019 Six Ways to Shoot Images with your Smartphone What follow applies to the Iphone from Apple, but will likely apply to many Android devices as well. After opening the phone with your phone’s … Continue reading →
Tips and Tricks December 3, 2018
Tips and Tricks December 3, 2018 New Personal Storage Developments If you have bought a new computer recently, especially a laptop; you have encountered the fact that a common offering in terms of installed storage is a Solid State … Continue reading →
Tips and Tricks November 6, 2018
The Camera You Have With You They say that the best camera is the one you have with you. I would venture to say that for most people and for most of the time that camera resides in your smartphone. … Continue reading →
Tips and Tricks February 12, 2018
Smartphone Photography Here are some current thoughts on smartphones and photography. Camera manufacturers have seen a decline in the sale of compact cameras as smartphones become increasingly adept at taking quality images. As smartphones increase their pixel count and … Continue reading →
Photography Gift Ideas – December 18, 2017
Here are what I think are some cool ideas for gifts this holiday season either to others or to you from Santa. When travelling one faces the danger of needing a portable device charged and no facilities are present or … Continue reading →
The Radial Filter in Lightroom
Introduced back in 2013, the Radial Filter has become my second favourite light adjustment, second to the Graduated Filter right beside it in the Develop module in Lightroom. Like the latter it can adjust almost every feature controlled in the … Continue reading →
Photoshop Rivals
For the past decade, at least, the dominant Photo Editor, especially among professionals and serious amateur photographers, has been Photoshop. There have always been rivals, but recently two new progams have stepped up to present serious challenges. Affinity has been … Continue reading →
Protecting and Cleaning Your Camera of Dust/Grime
Topics not covered here: elaborate camera bags, insurance schemes, camouflage techniques when travelling, etc. We are looking at simply how to keep your equipment from being affected by ordinary dust and grime. The most recent online newsletter from Henrys has … Continue reading →
Welcome back to a new season with the Richmond Hill Camera Club The following is a repeat reminder from a past Tips & Tricks in the web’s archives. Important enough to reissue here, I think: Have you ever pulled out … Continue reading →
Light-weight, Affordable Image Backup
Photography, as a hobby in particular, takes on a different tone when the photographer is travelling. Most studio equipment stays at home. One looks for alternatives to one’s heaviest tripod, and thinks twice about the size of one’s camera bag … Continue reading →
3 Short Tips
Clear your temp directory, if you have a PC (Windows) computer. Go to Start/Search button and do a search for %temp%. Open that directory/folder and select everything in it (CTRL – A). Drag the contents into the trash or choose … Continue reading →
Computer Privacy
In a world that is ever-more inter-connected, the expectation that much of our lives is private seems to get thwarted more and more. Our computers constantly ‘converse’ in cyberspace, and we are never sure who might be ‘listening’. Your ISP … Continue reading →
Back From the Shoot
Have you ever pulled out your camera to shoot an image and been disappointed to find that the settings are very much inappropriate for the shot? That is one of several disappointments you can encounter if you ignore some key … Continue reading →
Backup Images while Travelling
I recently did some travelling in the U.S. with the intent of taking lots of images with my digital camera. I also wanted to back up those images as I travelled to ensure that nothing was lost during the trip … Continue reading →
Powerful File/Folder Modifier
Have you ever tried to rename or delete a folder only to receive an error message something like this: ‘this folder cannot be renamed because it is in use by another application or process’?
Continue reading →Images out of Sort – helpful tidbits from Bob Fowler
The default sorting decisions of various pieces of software can cause us much confusion and frustration. I’m going to describe some examples related to a fairly common workflow that you might employ yourself with your camera’s images. The specific software … Continue reading →