November 2008 Archives

Dan Benjamin and I have pulled the trigger on the second episode of Tack Sharp. Give a listen and let us know how we're doing! Read on...

Through the experience of losing a phone and dealing with the fallout, I’ve made a list of features that should be part of the AT&T wireless website. Most of them should be easily implementable, and all would be valuable. Read on...

On my journey back from New Mexico to the west coast after Thanksgiving, one of my layovers was Las Vegas. We landed not long before sunset and I knew that I might just have a chance of making a nice picture when the next flight took off. Read on...

My iPhone has become a very important part of my life. It’s not just a phone or an email client. It really is a fully capable portal to the Internet that can go anywhere. It’s more important than I could have guessed. Until I lost it. Read on...

One of the appealing features in the latest releases of Lightroom is that it can run in 64-bit mode. On the Mac, at least, it means that Lightroom can run quite a bit faster. This capability does, however, come with at least one gotcha: Printing. Read on...

A while ago, I made a guest appearance on The Talk Show with Dan Benjamin and John Gruber to talk about photography. After that, Dan and I talked a bit more and decided to dive all the way in. To that end, we’re launching Tack Sharp. Read on...

Deep down, I still have the mental framework that a telephone is supposed to be connected to the world via a twisted pair of wires. In fact, the idea of not having a landline was almost too strange to consider. That is, until I did a bit of math. Read on...

Comparing cameras to each other is difficult at best. There are so many unbound variables in most comparisons that the numbers all become confusing at best. Today, however, there is a new tool that we can use called DxOMark. Read on...

Earlier this year, I made a collection of twenty photographs available as prints through Zenfolio and their partner lab Mpix. Mike Clark has documented what happens when you order, and I also have a few bits of updates and news. Read on...

After spending a month making friends with the Nikon D700, I took it into the environment that I bought it for. I gave it its trial by fire shooting at Web 2.0 Summit 2008. With over four thousand frames taken over the course of three days, it was one heck of a trial. Read on...

It's easy for budding photographers to get obsessed with equipment. It's easy to think that better equipment will automatically make our photographs better. Instead, the quickest way to improve them is to use your light better. Read on...

It’s really hard to have every lens you ever want to shoot with in your bag. When you want to use a tilt-shift lens or a super long 400mm lens that you don’t own for that one project, what do you do? One answer is to rent. Read on...

Web 2.0 Summit just wrapped up last Friday, and what an event it was. We had a bevy of great speakers, including the Honorable Al Gore. Here's a quick two minute video that will give you a sense of what it was like. Read on...

I get lots of requests to use my photography. Some of these are commercial use requests. Other are non-commercial. Every once in a while, I’ll get a request from somebody over at Wikipedia wanting to use a photograph. I wish I could respond positively. Read on...

Last week as I made my way to Portland's airport to start a trip to Denver, I saw a couple of planes taking off to the east. With a tad bit of anticipation, I made sure I was sitting on the right hand side of the aircraft when I checked in. Read on...