February, 2010

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tfttf429 - Photoday 2009 Video - Post Processing with John Arnold - Part 1 of 4

Friday, February 12th, 2010

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In this episode Chris and John Arnold talk about post processing your images and John shows you how to do it in Lightroom.

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tfttf428 - Get the color right

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

“Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase” - Percy W. Harris

Canon’s old DEP mode vs. today’s A-DEP, Chris is on Buzz, find out how to safeguard your pictures on a one-year trip around the world, learn how to use the sRGB and Adobe RGB color profiles. Also hear about the ColorChecker Passport, Chris’ latest color-management-related gadget.

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tfttf427 - Back from Nepal - Tech Guy

Monday, February 8th, 2010

techguy_tfttf_logo2.jpgChris is back from Nepal. He was there for about 3 weeks and took about 4,000 pictures. The beauty though with digital is you can weed them out as you go. He bought two 80GB hard discs, specified for over 18,000 feet to store them on.


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tfttf426 video - Everest Trek #06 - Walking On The Beach

Friday, February 5th, 2010

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The higher you get, the drier it gets. At least on our trek that was clearly the case. Here are some strategies the trek group came up with to cope with the dust and make sure it wouldn’t affect the cameras too much.

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tfttf425 - The Lens Edition

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

20090614_175_blogToday we talk about lenses! Some of the questions today: Do 50mm lenses have a distortion issue? What is the best lens to upgrade? How to avoid strange shadows in your image when you use flash? Is it okay to stack polarizers with ND filters? What is the A-DEP mode for? And: a great tip by Simon about how to find the best photography spot around the Nürburgring race track in Germany.


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