Quick Tip – picking white balance
29 April 2009 | 10:48 | Photography, Tips | No Comments
Are you like me and don’t know (or can’t remember) the difference between tungsten, fluorescent, and incandescent (is that the same as tungsten?).
Do you find your cameras auto white balance setting never seems to be right (particularly indoors)?
A quick way of choosing the best setting is to switch on your cameras live view and cycle through the white balance options.
If your camera doesn’t have live view, I guess you can take a quick shot using each of the presets or adjust in post – but I’m just stoked to find a use for my cameras live view 
Getting things out
24 April 2009 | 1:55 | General | No Comments
Are you like me? I have hobbies. I have things I like to do. I have things that I know I will appreciate having done. But somehow it’s easier to not.
I think for me it’s a lot about my perception of completeness. I think about things and think about the effort required to get them to a state where they can be considered “finished” and it never seems like something that can be achieved without considerable effort. But how complete is complete? How good is good enough? I don’t really know but are beginning to realise that while “pretty good” is far from “perfect” – it is way better than nothing at all.
So I’m not talking about getting things done – I’m talking about getting things out. Procrastination and perfectionist pretences make it all too easy to start things and never complete them, but if you have to publish, you will either work your ass off or take a more pragmatic approach and rationalise the appropriate effort for the underlying value.
I’ve come to the conclusion that without an internal commitment/schedule (and possibly the fear of ridicule), I will more often than not adopt the “I’ll do that later” attitude (also known as the “I’d rather watch TV” attitude).
Well that all ends today (wow – them’s fighting words!)
As I’m nether industrious nor delusional, but am committed, I intend to adopt the 1-a-week policy.
This means:
1 photo taken and published to flickr a week
1 blog post written and published a week
Hell – I might even throw in “wash the dishes at least once a week” too – just for the fun of it!
Well – I guess I’ve done my blog post. And have published this weeks photo to flickr (see my 1 a week set on flickr). I better go do the dishes.
I wonder how long it will last – wish me luck!