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Suffice to say, Ian Poulter lost at least one fan today, if not tens or hundreds.
Oh well - I got a funny story out of it.

Not much to say today, so instead I'll remind you to check out the Photo Battle Blog every day.
Also, I'll soon have the opportunity to give the 300/2.8L a workout.

This is the scene of a Family Buck Night only 20 minutes before the first pitch is thrown.
Handheld and stitched together automatically with the Photoshop "photomerge" command. No doubt I could have spent time doing it manually, but eh.

Move your mouse over the image here to see what I'm talking about:

The flower is, in reality, some sort of purple flower. But blue and yellow are complementary colors, so shifting the magenta channel in Aperture towards blue results in what I believe is a "more pleasing" picture.
I've posted this picture for tomorrow's Photo Battle [...]

I'd like to make a pinhole camera (just something simple, out of a box or something) with instant film. I'm fairly certain I can find enough variations of pinhole camera online to suit my tastes, but I'm not so certain about the instant film: can it be found? Does it exist in larger sheets than [...]

Lightroom 2.0's beta adds, like Aperture 2.0, the ability to have plugins. Unlike Aperture, Lightroom manages to allow plugins to edit data non-destructively.
I've been railing on Apple's rather crappy "plugin support" since it became obvious it was not a non-destructive process. Why Apple thinks managing a bunch of TIFFs or PSDs is acceptable is beyond [...]

It's been nearly 50 days since Aperture 2.0 was released, yet we've still not heard much at all about the "image editing" plug-in capability that the software supposedly supports.
Has Apple shared the API with anyone? Are they waiting, iPhone-style, for version 2.1 or something? Is there still a chance that an image editing plugin might [...]

This video is a chilling statement of the times: a man is harassed simply for taking video of people in a public place. The problem appears much worse in the U.K., but I suspect they're simply a few months ahead of the U.S. on their ass-backwards "no cameras/pictures/filming" policy.
I've just read a short essay by [...]

A few days ago I picked up my Airport International v2.0 from Think Tank. It's a medium-sized roller-case that meets international standards for carry-on luggage. I needed a bag that would carry the 300/2.8, the rest of my gear, and a few other things.

Rumors have been floating around for over a year re: the Canon 5D Mark II (see also: Canon 3D, 6D, and 7D). Earlier today, MacNN's generic electronics site and Gizmodo both published specs of the "forthcoming" Canon 5D Mark II. The source? Some bozo without a source or a real name on DP Review's forums.
C'mon. [...]

I read the Strobist review. I read the reviews at amazon.com.
Originally I tried to buy the book at Barnes and Noble. They had one in stock. For $54.99. Same at Borders. Sorry, but there are very few books (paperback no less) worth more than $50. Amazon.com sells it for $35.
The book - via the subtitle [...]

You know, one of the most amazing things I've discovered about photography is just how amazing our eyes are. They auto-adjust for white balance, saturation, focus, and the amount of light available.
The last constantly amazes me any time I try to take a shot indoors. At f/2 to f/4, and ISO 1600, I'm often reduced [...]

Handy javascript bookmarklet that shows only the image at flickr: http://blackr.net/. It's free.
BTW #1: Except for sports photographers who need the raw speed of JPEG (file writing), I have a hard time understanding why anyone would shoot JPEG over RAW when given the choice.
BTW #2: Lighting indoors can sometimes be awful. I'm constantly amazed at [...]

Mike Johnston writes in a brief essay about over-saturation of digital images:
Why is inaccuracy in color rendering simply a given, while a little blurring of fine detail resolution or a touch of noise in the shadows are so adamantly not tolerated?

It's widely accepted that we can adjust the white balance of an image. Ostensibly, we're [...]

Aside from Aperture 2's new Recovery and Black Point tools, the tool that's impressed me the most has been the Retouch Brush. I had a love/hate relationship with the "Spot and Patch" tool in Aperture 1.0, if by "love" you mean hate and by "hate" you mean hate. The Retouch Brush, on the other hand, [...]