Jacken’s Blog

There’s been a lot of discussions about the MacHeist bundle. And I must agree with some of the critique on how to share the loot between the MacHeist gang and the Independent developers. But one thing is for sure, If I had not bought the bundle, I would never have discovered an amazing piece of [...]

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So I have tried Apples new photo managing software called Aperture. I uploaded some pictures into it to have something to work with. I also downloaded pictures

that I had taken during the day. The next time I started Aperture, I got a message that the project I had downloaded needed to be repaired. But [...]

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It’s been a long time since I looked forward to a program as much as I do with Apples Aperture. I’ve tested C1 Pro and Raw processing with Adobe Photoshop, but none of them feels like they fit in to my workflow habits. The only thing that worries me is that it doesn’t look like [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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After getting a new lens, the Tamron SP AF28-75 F/2.8 and tried it out for a couple of months, I must say that I’m impressed. First I was a bit disappointed with the sharpness at 2.8, but when doing some tests comparing it to my Canon 17-40mm f/4L lens, the Tamron blows the L lens [...]

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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, [...]

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Searching the net, I found this great photography site. If you want to check out some wonderful pictures, go here.

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