With all the drama going on about the new royalty structure I was on the fence about continuing with Exclusivity at iStockphoto. I’ve been there since 2004 and have meet many wonderful and helpful people. I’ve learn a lot about photography and community, co-hosted a ‘lypse style event here in Ottawa and had a chance [...]
Stock Photography Changes
September 25th, 2010Server Migration
June 6th, 2010Well the time has come to move to new servers on my hosting account.
It took awhile because I just didn’t want the hassle of moving the site from asp to html (and php), reconfiguring all the email addresses and moving my blog. The push came when I decided to change my phone service from Bell [...]
Media Mentor = Fail
December 14th, 2009I recently purchased a new computer but unfortunately couldn’t wait until the official Windows 7 release date because the sale would have been over. So, a couple days before Win7 released I picked up my new PC which came with a free Win7 upgrade. Well, that’s where the frustration begins. The computer [...]
Web Developer Tools
September 4th, 2009If you are a fan of FireBug (rockin’ plugin for Firefox to debug and see what is going on behind the scene on a site) then you likely use YSlow performance tool to see bottlenecks, file response times, missing objects, etc.
Google released their competing product called Page Speed.
It is pretty slick and I find it [...]
Website Launch
September 2nd, 2009I’m looking forward to the new site launch. The client has been amazing to work with and the early feedback so far has been awesome.
Something New-ish
July 22nd, 2009It’s been a long time since I shot an outdoor soccer game, I think the last time was an Ottawa Fury U18 game a few years ago. Last night I had a great opportunity to get out there give it another go. I had high hopes that all my other photography would have an impact [...]
Doh!
May 8th, 2009Years ago…
Client: “Please print the entire web site so that we can proof it.”
Me: “Um, ok, it’s dynamic content using the database you provided”.
Client: “So you can print it up then, right?”
Upon receiving the printed copy the client was happy.
Weeks later, I get the call that everything matched up perfectly and they were happy. When [...]
Lightroom Presets
April 11th, 2009It’s no secret that I’m lovin’ Adobe Lightroom for managing my workflow but where it really shines for me is in processing images with multiple effects. Enter the awesome Steller Presets giving me the creative control I’ve been looking for.
I usually import and make my selections in Lightroom then touch up an image in Photoshop. [...]
Blackberry and G-Ray2
April 6th, 2009I finally got a new toy — a Blackberry. I know, it’s old tech for everyone else but I was extremely resistant to change since I loved my Treo. I’ve had my Treo forever and have gotten so used to it that I couldn’t imagine changing. Well, I finally got feed up [...]
Photography and me
March 30th, 2009I’ve been doing a lot of non-photography related research lately, about forum software, network configuration, site performance, WordPress, PHP…the usual computer geek stuff and I’ve come to the conclusion that I love photography. There, I said it. I truly enjoy the process. It doesn’t seem to matter what is going on once I get the [...]
