Forget five gold rings...
On the Fifth Day of Christmas, my true love baked for me...
There are many good reasons for marrying someone from a very different cultural background.
One of them is Armenian peda bread.
The Second Noel?
Today I was given reason to remember that old Noel Coward song - how did it go? Something like:
Mad Englishmen with dogs
Go out in the noonday sleet...
Yes, I think that was it...
A Lightroom and Capture One Workflow
Capture One is a program for capturing, processing and managing photos, and it's used by many professional outfits, partly because it is good at the tethered shooting that often happens in a studio, partly because it's made by Phase One (who also create some very nice and very expensive medium-format cameras), and partly because its underlying processing of RAW images is amongst the best available anywhere.
In other words, if you have a good camera, you can often make your photos look rather better with Capture One than with, say, Lightroom, Aperture, iPhoto or Adobe Camera Raw, though it will cost you around 200 quid for the privilege.
However, for the normal importing, managing and editing of large numbers of images, I find Lightroom to be much faster, more capable and more reliable.
So here's a little tutorial about how I set both apps up to allow images to be moved easily between them, so I can take advantage of the best bits of both.
Video also available on YouTube here.
Slow TV
A delightful TED talk by Thomas Hellum about the attractions of what might be considered the dullest TV on the planet, at least by those who haven't seen The Shopping Channel.
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Something to keep YOUR problems in perspective
My friend Billy's wife, Kate Gross, has been writing some pretty amazing stuff recently.
Here's something to think about as you prepare for Christmas.
Yes, it really did look like that
Grantchester Meadows this morning.
One of the (many) things I love about my Fuji X-Pro 1 is that most of the key controls are good old buttons and dials, not touchscreens and menus. This is particularly handy when you're wearing gloves...