So I just recently came back from my third trip to NYC and figured I’d post some stuff from it.  Where to begin?  Well, might as well start at the beginning, I guess. Before I left, I’d been reading up on geotagging and basically started wondering how people could survive without it.  I decided to [...]

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If you’ve got a Canon camera with Digic II or Digic III processor, and you’ve always craved for more features like a live histogram, zoom while recording video, an intervalometer, RAW format (and the list goes on), your all-you-can-eat buffet of camera features is finally here! CHDK (Canon Hacker’s Development Kit) is open source firmware [...]

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I just recently discovered the LR/Mogrify plugin by Timothy Armes.  This wonderful plugin provides a user interface for Imagemagick’s Mogrify program that runs when you export photos from Lightroom. My initial use for this plugin is to watermark my photos on my photoblog, RawPixels.ca.  Aside from watermarking, this plugin also allows you to add borders, [...]

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If you’re a fellow photographer like me, you might wonder from time to time if it’s OK to take pictures of your intended subject (be it a building, location or people).  It seems everyone is concerned about security these days, and security staff are hasty to assume that anyone taking pictures in abstract or public [...]

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The paint is dry, and the renovations are finished!  My photoblog has undergone some renovations but they’re all done now.  It even has a fancy new name: RAWPixels I’m in the process of migrating photos from the old photoblog, but this will take some time so bear with me. The new site includes some new [...]

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