Photography — Software

Supertree, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore

How I Fell In Love with Photography

I’ve been an enthusiast photographer since December 1986 when I inherited my brother’s Cosina CS-1 SLR with Sigma 70-210 lens, literally in a camera shop in Singapore where he was buying his first Nikon. In true “grandfather’s axe” fashion, I still h…

Scanning Negatives with VueScan (Multi-frame)

Scanning Negatives with VueScan (Multi-frame)

Some years ago I began the task of scanning my father’s large collection of photographic negatives, comprising several hundred films. I have had many starts on this project and many different approaches, each with their own issues. Some approaches ha…

Lightroom Classic Smart Previews… aren’t

Lightroom Classic Smart Previews… aren’t

I’m posting this short treatise because I spent hours today scouring the internet looking for this information and only found it in a forum post — not in countless blog posts on the topic. In Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic (ugh, let’s …

Padding Pictures Like Video

Padding Pictures Like Video

I often write small scripts I use on my Mac to get stuff done that are a chore to do manually. Some might call this automation, but really it’s just tool-making. The problem to be solved in this case was padding pictures out to a 16:9 ratio for…

Going Deep on Detail

Going Deep on Detail

In late 2019, in a fit of pique at Skylum Software’s apparent disregard of promises to their existing customer base, I went looking for a new photo processing tool. As an acquaintance of mine so eloquently puts it, a dark room app. The app I di…