G Dan Mitchell Photography

A few weeks ago I returned from a three-day pack trip in Yosemite with several hundred photographs on an 8GB compact flash card. As soon as I got home (yes, five minutes after midnight…) I popped the card into my firewire card reader and watched Adobe Bridge launch and present me with the screen for [...]

Earlier this weekend I read a forum thread about the Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 lens, of which I have a copy. The thread lamented the barrel distortion of this lens (which I don’t really find to be a significant issue at all) and continued with posts suggesting alternatives including software correction is post-processing. A response [...]

Think Secret: Another new feature substantially improving both workflow and raw performance is Live Filters, which effectively brings the dynamic editing features of Layer Styles to Filters. The pixel radius of a Gaussian Blur, for example, can be adjusted long after it has been applied with just a single mouse click. Sources report substantial performance [...]

From Aperture Tricks: As some of you may know, Derrick Story from MacDevCenter.com and I co-presented a class at the 2006 Macworld Conference last week. Derrick’s a very generous guide and has provided a free link to his training notes for the class at his blog, The Digital Story. You can go there to download [...]