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)
Early in 2024, I switched to a new method of digitising films. I have also described this process and the equipment involved, in detail, in the post Digitising Negatives by DSLR. However, that process won’t be for everyone, and this post is by …
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
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
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…