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How to set a custom white balance

by May 31, 2011
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In my last post about colour management I described the steps I go through to ensure my images are captured, viewed, and printed correctly. You only get one chance to make a good impression so having these steps prevents me from accidently giving someone a blue face because of a wrong adjustment. I mentioned that [...]

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Surviving as a colour blind photographer

by Gareth Robins March 5, 2011

Being a colour blind photographer doesn’t mean the quality of my work suffers. See the procedures I have in place to ensure for my wedding photos

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I bought a new portrait lens

by December 5, 2010

So this week I turned the ripe old age of &^&RE&* (yeah like I’m going to tell you). Instead of opting for the more traditional sports car or motorbike, I went lens shopping. For the photographer geeks out there I bought a Sigma 85mm f/1.4 DG HSM. For the non-photography geeks; I’ve taken the photos [...]

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Choosing the best lens

by Gareth Robins October 6, 2010

Firstly, this is a geekly photographer article, so if you’ve no interest in such a thing, feel free to click away, I promise I wont be at all offended. If I had stumbled upon this post and not known what it’s about, I’d probably fall asleep at the keyboard. Ah cool, you’re still with me. [...]

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How to auto post Smugmug picture updates to Twitter and Facebook

by December 30, 2009

I’ve started to have issues with using TwitPic to share photos of my kids.  TwitPic is fast become the go to application for sharing, and I’m sure generates a huge amount of traffic, but it really doesn’t give the user much control of images once they’re posted.  More importantly, I can’t download the original images [...]

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