I’ve been looking at the Sigma 12-24 lens for my set of Canon 10d’s for a while now and have read mostly favorable reviews. The few negative reviews have been on softness and distortion problems that will affect any lens that wide. What I have had a hard time finding is sample images.
Enter [...]
The little Linux file server that sits under my desk has been getting louder and louder over the past few weeks. Yesterday it got to the point where I just couldn’t work anymore with the noise, and I was a little worried about it crashing because of heat. A fan that I assumed [...]
Last week I ordered a refurb Canon 10d from B&H Photo along with a Sigma 24-70 EX Macro lens. I wanted to see how this lens did at f/2.8 so I took it to Austin and shot around with it. This image was in the Zilker Botanical Gardens.
Ok, so it wasn’t poisonous. At least, not according to the little girl that pointed it out to us. If I could go back I would have shot this at more than f/2.8, but I was experimenting with a new lens so probably 90% of what I shot that day was at f/2.8.
For the past couple of years I’ve been a moderator on Pro Photo Forum. Over the past few months PPF has been on a decline and one of the other moderators and I decided that we should start our own photography forum. Sure, there are hundreds of photography sites out there, but we [...]
I’ll admit it. I have no idea what food are not safe to freeze. It seems like pretty much anything should be fair game. Milk? Honey? Sour Cream?
The National Center for Home Food Preservation has put together a list of common foods along with how to freeze them, or why [...]
If you are addicted to Minesweeper, or like me play in on your Palm to kill time, you should take a look at the History of Minesweeper.
Almost every posting you read on how to “correctly” run a blog says you shouldn’t have too many categories. I was guilty of that problem, so I trimmed down my categories quite a bit with the help of a plugin called Category Converter.
It’s a one file plugin that you upload to the plugin folder [...]
Need a latte, but don’t know where the nearest Starbucks is. Text your zip code to MYSBUX (697289) and it’ll return the 3 closest Starbucks locations. If where you live is anything like Houston, they’ll probably all be withing walking distance.
Looking for a new program, maybe a free php editor. A new search engine called Deligio may help you out. Enter what you’re looking for an it’ll bring up every program in its database that matches.