Adobe Photoshop CS4 Auto-Blending Focus Tutorial

The other day, I found a Long horned beetle clinging to the siding of my house. I grabbed my trusty Canon 5D Mark II and a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro lens and my Feisol tripod. As I could not get all the parts of this beetle in focus I remembered the auto-align and … Read more

Review of 5D mark II at DPreview

DPPreview.com has finally posted their review of Canon EOS 5D mark II . As expected, a lot of praises for 5D mark II While there are still other cameras in its class with marginally higher resolution, marginally better high ISO performance, more advanced AF, faster performance, better weather sealing and more solid build quality – … Read more

Oriental Honey Buzzard

Oriental Honey Buzzard (Pernis ptilorhyncus) sub adult male. also known as Oriental Honey-buzzard and Crested Honey Buzzard. Despite its name, this species is not related to Buzzards, and is taxonomically closer to the kites.

FastStone Image Viewer

FastStone provides lightning fast image viewing. Like Infranview, FastStone supports a boatload of file formats and coverts between them. The main difference is that Infranview is about the single image where Faststone is about the browser. The Thumbnail viewer in Irfanview is pathetic if compared to FastStone.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers

It has been hectic week, I upgraded to Vista 64bit version. Upped my RAM from 3GB to 6GB to take advantage of 64 bit (or was it otherway round  đŸ˜‰ ) Now my adobe photoshop CS4 64 bit version Rocks, I can use nearly 4GB for the Photoshop. Lightroom 2.1 is also 64bit, I found … Read more

Camera’s Worst Enemies – Humidity, Fungus

Why High Humidity is bad for your equipment High levels of humidity can damage your lenses and certain parts of your camera body. Fungus grows in between lens elements and under the lens coatings. Once fungus gets started, it causes blurring parts of your photographs. If you like to store your equipment in camera bags, … Read more