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1 year ago

Adobe Intros CS 5.5, Subscription Pricing - Love it or Hate it?

We're thinking that this one might be a bit controversial. Adobe has just released Creative Suite 5.5, a paid upgrade that brings mobile authoring tools to the company's platform of creative apps.  The upgrade starts at $399 for the package of tools the company released less than a year ago. That alone is going to be enough to get some people complaining, especially if Adobe [...]

1 year ago

A Crowdsourced Photo Mascot T-Shirt To Raise $10,000 for Japan Relief

We’re working on a new idea for a fundraiser for Japanese disaster relief via a t-shirt project and we need your help. The long version is below but here’s the short version: t-shirts with the Photographic.ly mascot on it, a Japanese Maneki Neko (Lucky Cat) with a camera taking a photo.  We're trying to get the printing cost raised via Kickstarter then if we hit the goal 100% of [...]

1 year ago

Aperture 3.1.2 Arrives

Apple has updated Aperture to 3.1.2, a free upgrade that's available via Software Update and should be available via the Mac App Store, if Aperture were purchased there as well. The upgrade addresses "general stability" (ie "bug fixes") and resolves a whole host of small issues.  The most important ones I see on the list are • Addresses an issue that could cause Aperture to stop [...]

1 year ago

f/stop Wristbands Now Help Japanese Relief Efforts

Over at Photographic.ly we've just introduced a second style of our f/stop wristbands, and we're now donating $.50 from each wristband to Japanese relief efforts via the Red Cross.  We launched our f/stop wristbands in February and they’ve been a huge hit. We’ve gotten lots of requests for an all-white version, and those just came in. We’re also now giving fifty cents from [...]

1 year ago

Nostalgic f/Stop Wristbands For The Photographer

Artists may wear their hearts on their sleeve but now photographers can wear their art on their wrist with these new f/stop bracelets custom created by me and available on the Photographic.ly site. Free shipping for Pixiq customers with the coupon code pixiqrocks. This silicone writsband is a fantastic way to both display your love of photography and your love of photographic [...]

1 year ago

First Shots with Nikon 35mm 1.4

As the sounds of the UPS truck faded up the road the packing tape on the box from Nikon was already open and the new Nikon 35mm f/1.4G lens attached to one of my test cameras (the Nikon D700).  Since UPS drops off late in the afternoon I didn't have a chance to book a studio shoot for it, so the first images from the lens are of the available subjects (and my favorite ones), my son Henry, my [...]

1 year ago

Pixiq's Pro Digital Portrait Lighting Really Teaches Lighting

Pixiq recently sent me  copy of Pro Digital Portrait Lighting and I liked it so much that I asked them if we could add it to our online store at shop.maccreate.com.  One of the things that's always struck me as odd in portrait lighting books (and I've reviewed an incredible amount of them over the years) is that they don't provide the same portrait from setup to setup—that makes [...]

1 year ago

The Photographer's Calendar

Ever notice that sometimes the most interesting ideas pop into your head when you're starting to fall asleep? As I was drifting off to la-la land recently it occurred to me that I was really looking forward to the next morning—the light coming through our windows is especially beautiful this time of year. Normally I don't see the light as I'm asleep, but as a new father I've been up [...]

1 year ago

With Aperture #1 Grossing App Store Download Apple Tells Adobe to Kiss Off

With Apple's radical drop in the price of Aperture, Apple has not only propelled their game-changing photographic tool into the number-one grossing application on the App Store, they've also yet again told Adobe that they can kiss off. Disclaimer: This is an opinion piece, based on my many years of working in the technology industry. I've got no insider information about Apple's stated or internal [...]

1 year ago

Why Do People Still Love Film?

Jack Reznicki just posted an article about the end of the line for Kodachrome—Dwayne's Photo in Kansas will be processing the last roll of the venerable slide film on December 30th. In the comments one of the readers was bitterly offended by Jack's thoughts about the days of film ending. Part of the debate seems to be over the choice of words (does "end of film as we knew it" mean "film is [...]

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