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LGA: Security TheaterPosted by Synfinatic on July 30, 2007 at 11:22 pm in Photography, Rant, Security.So I was flying out of LaGuardia, NY (LGA) this morning on my way home to San Jose, Ca (SJC). After checking in, I was directed by the nice woman at American Airlines to take my checkin bags to the x-ray machine. There were a lot of bags piling up at the machine and 2-4 TSA agents processing the bags thru the x-ray machine and loading them onto the conveyer belt to the plane. What struck me odd though was that none of the TSA agents actually sat at the x-ray machine console to examine the x-ray images of the bags! I watched for about 10 minutes as the rest of my party went through the long lines to …
Radiant Vista == Photo HappinessPosted by Synfinatic on June 22, 2007 at 8:29 am in Cool, Photography.So I’m probably way behind everyone else, but I just found The Radiant Vista a few weeks ago. This is a very cool photography website for both experts and beginners. Every day there’s a new video critique of a photograph and they go over all sorts of photography concepts like framing, lighting, subject matter and color. There is also a weekly Photoshop workshop video which explains how to get the most of your digital photographs. While the site is definitely targeted towards digital SLR photographers, most of the content is applicable to people who shoot film or point & shoots.
Lightroom in, CaptureOne outPosted by Synfinatic on May 16, 2007 at 12:06 am in Photography.I’ve been using CaptureOne Pro (C1) for a number of years now. It’s been considered one of the best, if not the best RAW processing tools on the market for professionals and serious amateurs. While I’ve grown to love it’s workflow, there’s always been a few things which bothered me about it:
Truth vs. RealityPosted by Synfinatic on January 1, 2007 at 8:14 pm in Photography.I just got done reading Alain Briot’s article titled Just Say Yes. If you shoot digital photography, I highly recommend you read it…
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