Recent content by Greg K

For those people looking for dark skies, I found this link to a light pollution map you can load into Google Earth: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showthreaded&Number=281664 I'm in south Herts (St. Albans) - so quite a drive for me to get out to anywhere reasonable. Looks like...

10mm, tripod, polariser (EXIF says f/4 but this is HDR and probably from the highlight exposure) I typically shoot f/8 for max sharpness.

I second what martsharm said, when I got my 50mm I was frustrated with how 'tight' it was on my D90.

Can anyone recommend some wireless triggers for my D90 and SB600? A friend has recommended some PT04's, while cheap I read they have trouble over 10m. Then I found PocketWizards and RadioPoppers - certainly 3 steps up financially, not sure how much strobist work I'll be doing other than...

Other than the course ford1 mentioned, has anyone here taken one they can recommend?

A Cokin H250a should do the job for a GND kit. Some on here will swear by the Lee or Singh filters but I've not found many faults with Cokin so far, though they're hard to keep dust and scratch free. FYI it's neutral density btw. I think you'll find the GND of more use than the ND. I have...

You'd probably feel a noticeable increase in performance by moving to a solid state hard disk. Intel are leading the market still for SSDs, they're not cheap though. Indilinx Barefood controller based drives also perform well. Backup to external USB / Drobo? I use a Mac and regularly backup to...

Also, for running Windows and Linux software on your Mac, a free open source alternative is Virtual Box. I've used it for around a year now, great piece of software, easy to install, use and updated frequently. Hope it doesn't go down with Sun (who are looking shaky financially atm!).

There's rumoured to be an iMac (and possibly Mac Mini) refresh coming in the next few weeks, as stores have seen supplies of the current generation dry up.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidgutierrez/sets/72157604615916402/

Even roads like Old Street have some interesting graffiti along them.

Great sunset tonight. I was kicking myself for not having my camera on me. I got to see most of the sunset but stuck in traffic for 45 mins trying to get home from work :(

Sounds like you need a content management system, asking a web designer to produce a site you can then edit in Dreamweaver sounds like a world of pain for both parties. Potentially expensive if you break the site layout, and they have to fix it after your updates. Drupal / Joomla are example...

I presumed you were talking about Photoshop btw. Lightroom you can just get stuck in and move the sliders around to see what effect it has on your image. Some effects, like luminescence noise reduction, will require 100% zoom to see a difference.

There's several tutorials available on YouTube which I found helpful. I started off reading tutorials online and subscribing to photoshop magazine (when I was a web designer). Using it day in day out for 5 years helped too. Start with some online tutorials and get stuck in. Cloning or simple...