Category: Photos

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Examples of Colour Management

Published on: December 3, 2008 and has 2 Comments

I have previously talked about colour management in the past, and those who are serious about digital photography will need to know about colour management. While it can get technical, colour management is simply the process of ensuring an image is display/printed properly from one device to another. It can be difficult to explain, but [...]

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Photo and Image Editors

Published on: November 5, 2008 and has 4 Comments

As I visit web sites one thing that always get my attention is the amount of time it takes to complete a page download. With web sites using more images to display the content, it can at times take much longer than necessary to finish downloading a page. The biggest problem with the sites that [...]

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How I Organize My Digital Photos

Published on: October 31, 2008 and has 7 Comments

If you are like me you probably have taken thousands of pictures with your digital camera. Digital cameras make it very easy to take photos, since you can view the photos immediately, and only keep the photos you like. Once you are done taking pictures, it is usually very easy to transfer them to a [...]

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The PNG Image Format

Published on: October 10, 2008 and has 7 Comments

I have written posts about the JPEG and TIFF file format, including the advantages and disadvantages of each. Digital cameras use the JPEG format because of it’s small size, so you can store more photos on a memory card. The downside to the JPEG is that is is lossy compression, so you lose some data [...]

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Four Months of Using Mozy

Published on: October 8, 2008 and has 14 Comments

I have written several posts regarding backing up your data. I have mentioned many different forms of media that you can use to keep your data safe. Over the past four months I have been using an online backup solution called Mozy. While I have written about Mozy in the past, I will sum up [...]

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How to Capture Action Shots Outdoors

Published on: September 24, 2008 and has 2 Comments

I was recently at the park taking pictures of my oldest son on the swings. As I took the pictures, I noticed another person doing the same with members of his family next to me. I stood and watched for a moment as he became disappointed when his pictures came out blurry, and he eventually [...]

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What is Your Archiving Workflow?

Published on: July 25, 2008 and has 2 Comments

In my last post I talked about my method of backing up my archived photos. I discussed the various media I used to ensure I will always have at least one copy of every photo. I have talked about my workflow with regards to archiving in other posts, but I feel I should provide a [...]

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Is Your Data Safe?

Published on: July 23, 2008 and has 11 Comments

I have been scanning and archiving old family photos in order to help preserve them for the future. The first set of photos are the only copy of each photo available so they were chosen first for archiving. It is important that when you archive photos that you create a system for backing up your [...]

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