In 2005 I built a shiny and fast Photoshop Workstation. I’ve since done some significant upgrades, and a few (what might be considered) downgrades, to the machine. Read more…
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Loading ...I only installed Photoshop CS4 a few days ago and haven’t had a lot of time yet to explore. I got it working with my GPU (Nvidia 7950GT) after upgrading to the latest reference drivers from NVidia’s website. The smooth zooming, panning, and image rotation are pretty slick, but the one thing I’ve seen that I really like is that the core tools like the rubber stamp, and healing brushes now show a live preview of the result before you click-to-apply. It doesn’t sound like much, and I’m surprised it took this long to get something as simple as this, but it’s tremendously helpful. I really like it.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Here’s a collection of several of my favorite photographs from the last few years. These were taken from all over the world on various trips, and right here at home.
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I have a set of 88 6.3MP images that I shot of Horseshoe Bend in Arizona. I used PTGui to stitch them together. The small image above hardly does the image justice. I’ve created a Zoomified version of the panorama that can be viewed here (or click on the image above). Once the viewer is loaded you can zoom in and pan around the photo. Try zooming all the way in to the camp sites setup at the bottom of the canyon.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...[Sticky] Welcome to the new internet home for Kevin’s Photo Studio. I’m in the process of migrating some of my old material to this site. All of my most popular posts have been added already. The old links to these articles will be redirected to the new location automatically. This new site also has post ratings and comments so please take advantage of them. Again, welcome…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Just posted a bunch of wallpaper images that I’m offering free to anyone who wants them. There are several different sizes available so you can pick the ones closest to you monitor resolution. Enjoy…
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This is another case of a great image sitting on my hard drive waiting for several months to be discovered. Last July my wife and I were in France for work and vacation. I captured this image shortly after sunset on the fourth. Not many fireworks that night, but it sure was a beautiful evening to be out walking on the Seine. The image is a stiched panorama of three exposures. I used PTGui to assemble it. Other than some nominal sharpening, it is essentially unretouched from what the camera captured.
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While visiting family in southern California I spent some time photographing hummingbird that were congregating around the feeders at the house. I’ve created a gallery of hummingbird photos to share. I’m not an ornithologist so I’m not sure what species are represented in the collection, but they sure are fun to try to catch with the camera lens.
The basic setup was my Canon 1DMk2 with the 70-200/2.8L IS lens attached as well as the 550EX flash. This was mounted on my tripod (because I was standing in position for a long time). Since I wanted to use very fast shutter speeds I put the flash into high speed sync mode. I shot in manual mode so that I could control the background exposure seperately from the birds. The camera lens was about 4 to 6 feet from the hovering hummers, very close to the minimum focusing distance.
Any of these hummingbird pictures are available for sale. If you’re interested in using one, please contact me.
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This article was originally written in 2005 when I built this machine. It has since been rebuilt with newer, faster, better components. The rebuild will be detailed in an upcoming article. This articles still contains some good information, however.
Build or buy? A question many people ask when they need or want a new PC. I needed one. My main use for the machine is post processing digital camera files. I decided to build after not finding what I wanted for a price I was willing to pay. This article reports on my adventure in building my dream Photoshop computer. Unfortunately my dream had a budget attached so I couldn’t just buy the absolute top of the line everything.
This article describes the hardware that makes up my workstation. The software I run on the workstation is describes in another article titled Software Tools For Photographers.
A few months ago I decided that it was time to replace my aging Dell Desktop computer with something more capable of handling the large number of digital photo images that I was producing with my 8.2MP Canon 1D Mk2 camera. My aging Dell is a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 processor with 1Gb of RAM and two internal hard drives totaling about 300GB of storage running Windows XP Pro. With my image files regularly reaching 800MB, this computer just wasn’t cutting it anymore. I found myself waiting and wanting for a faster computer. Read more…
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For the person who is just getting into digital photography deciding what equipment to buy can be a very intimidating process. Many thousands of dollars are likely to be spent in the process. It would sure be nice if you were able to buy the best equipment for your needs the first time. But how do you know what’s best. You don’t. All you can do is research, ask questions, and finally make a decision. I get a lot of questions from friends and strangers about what equipment should be purchased for specific needs. I try to help people out on various forums as I can. Since I’ve written many posts and many emails and had many discussions on this topic, I thought: maybe it’s time to write it all down in one place. This is a summary of the equipment that currently makes up my photographic toolkit. For each item in my toolkit I’ll try to explain why I do (or don’t) like it. Hopefully someone will find the information useful and be one step closer to buying the right (or not buying the wrong) piece of equipment for their toolkit. Read more…
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