I started to try out the tethered function of C1 Pro v3.7 with my Canon 20d, but couldn’t get it to work. Had to roam the support board to find out that this does not work with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger yet. There’s an update coming.

So what’s tethered? You can connect your digital camera (at least the supported once) with a Firewire or USB cable and have the camera dump the pictures you take immediately to the computer where you can check sharpness and exposure with a high resolution screen. I’m going to use this when photographing stilleben, food and portraits in a studio environment. First you have all the storage space in the portable computer, and then all the ability to do measure for whitebalance and such.

I’ll give you a rundown on how it went when they release the update.

Macworld: News: Epson hits another ink cartridge maker:

For the second time this week a manufacturer of Epson-compatible ink cartridges is taking its products off the market as a result of legal action by Seiko Epson Corp., the Japanese company said Friday.

The popularity of digital photography has gone trough the roof, and people are printing out pictures like there’s no tomorrow. The quality of the printers has increased as well. But the prices of ink cartridges are insane. Change the cartridges two or three times and that costs more than the printer. In fact, isn’t the ink now more expensive than perfume per cc? Manufacturer like Epson now put small chips inside the cartridges that both makes difficult for others to make cartridges that work with Epson printers, and also makes it harder to refill them. And the cartridge stops working with more than 10-15% of the ink remaining, because of Epsons calculation of how much there is left. And don’t get me started on the waste of ink when declogging the print heads.

My next printer will be a Canon instead. The ink is at least a bit less expensive.

Check out a great photographer here.

It is important to me that my personal pictures don’t have to do anything, they don’t have to sell in a gallery or sit well beside the Ads in a magazine. I don’t have to make pictures that are easily categorised, they are not reportage, there is no subject, they are not art, there is no great technical craft or aesthetic beauty, they are just pictures about life. For these reasons, Picture Editors, Art Directors and Curators don’t know what to do with them, where to put them. I like that….

Today I went to a meeting for the photo shoot I’m doing next week for a book cover. It was productive. I have an idea of lighting, but I need to construct a new reflector so I’ll go and try to find thin plastic tomorrow. It’s going to be a straight forward high key portrait, but with a twist. As usual I’ll post it when I can.