An angry, traditional photographer rants about how microstock photographers stole his big, fat pay cheque away, calls microstock low quality, and Robert—whose shot was bought by Time—a pervert: Congratulations Robert, you’ve just become the poster-boy for exactly what is wrong about iStockphoto. A stock rate previously known to be $3,000 for the cover of Time [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Signs of bad Mac software
Follow up to my previous post on tell-tale signs of bad Mac software before you even use it. Five minutes into using Canon Digital Photo Professional (DPP), converting some RAW files into JPEGs and TIFFs, I saw this dialog that I had no idea how to close. On most sane Mac software, I could have [...]
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Signs of bad Mac software (before you even use it)
I’ve been avoiding the Canon provided software suite, including the Digital Photo Professional (DPP), like a plague. I’ve seen how my friend struggled with the interface, and It always seem like a piece of unpolished software. Today I decided to install it to compare the RAW outputs with Lightroom. True enough, even before I get [...]
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Film bigots II
I took issue with a bigoted and misleading write-up by a group of “elite” film photographers at Anti Lomography with my previous post. Someone, who posted a comment under a link to rangefinderfilipinas.com, replied: Sorry, but you missed the point. Or a lot of points, I should say. If you read past the ‘about’ page, [...]
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Film bigots
Over at Anti Lomography, a group of film purists are attacking what they deemed as their inferior film counterparts—lomographers who use “old film cameras that are generally of extremely poor quality and overpriced”. They claim they aren’t anti-digital and support digital photography as one of the best ways to learn photography. But they would later [...]
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Thinktank Pixel Sunscreen
This is going to be very useful for those sunny outdoor shoots. Via deke.
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