Recent content by R.G.Simmons

On my way home from work..... I often stop at this place on my way home and take a short walk through the vineyard. I must have shot that tiny stone house from every possible angle. This is one of my favorites. Any comments welcome. BTW it's in a little town on the Swiss-French border, Croix de...

Old town, Geneva

Petit Palais staircase. Paris

For the past 10 years or so, I've been using a folder structure to file my photos. Top-down, I file by year then by general subject (for example portraits), then by a more explicit subject (Fred, Jill, etc.). I don't change the name of the RAW files only those that are post-processed. These...

If you use a new camera infrequently you might like to note down the main settings that you've changed from the factory values and those that you want to check each time you take the camera out of the bag. I've done this with settings like how to change the AF mode, checking auto/manual ISO...

Bit late for a reply, but why not buy a cheap suitcase on wheels and some pre-cut foam that you can adapt to the strobes individually.

If the website is mainly for showing your work, not a lot of contact details will be necessary. For a commercial web site it's rather different. On my website, the contact email form doesn't show my email address but if it did, I would create a specific address for that purpose alone.

I've set up a script using windows built-in Robocopy utility. Copies and compares directory structures based on last modification date/time. It's a command-line tool but I can help with setting it up if interested. This is NOT a backup tool. It does not store a history of backed up files but it...

I live in a rather remote place and have 2-3 power outages per year during stormy weather. Also experience +/- 10% voltage variation since my house is the last on the power line. Therefore UPS is an absolute necessity. I bought a cheap APC and it has been chugging along merrily for the past 10...

If you find a way to do this reliably without third party sw, please tell me! I recall seeing an article explaining how to use a smartphone as a middle-man to centralise synchronisation of two different calendars (Outlook and Google). Will try to dig it up.

Apart from the MS Office and Adobe stuff, according to statistics, one of the most frequently used applications on my PC is a password manager. Not surprising in this day and age. Also CCleaner to keep things nice and tidy.

Interesting question. I am trying to think of photographers that have inspired me (Cartier-Bresson, Karsh, Arbus, Erwitt to name a few) and reach the conclusion that they showed talent in a particular genre for most, if not all, of their careers. Technically speaking I'm sure Karsh could have...

Hmm. I had a similar problem with a completely different setup (Godox TT685N on Nikon body). After working normally for a few days, the flash started firing 4 pre-flashes (red-eye reduction) when on the hot-shoe but not when set off by the Godox Xpro trigger. The Nikon red-eye reduction flash...

Same problem on D850. Temporary repair with good quality gaffer tape lasts for a few months and then I replace. Great cameras, crappy rubber.

This: http://100photos.time.com/photos/henri-cartier-bresson-behind-gare-saint-lazare#photograph is one of H. Cartier-Bresson's most famous photographs. It's post-processed (by his own admission). Notice it lacks the characteristic black lines around the edge which normally denote a 35mm...