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From Scott’s Website:

“That’s right folks, it’s time for this year’s ultimate holiday guide to the nothing but the coolest photography and Photoshop gear for the photo freak on your holiday list.” 

One word, congrats!!!!!!

Our setting were pretty simple, we used a Canon 5D Mark II, with the following Canon lenses:

14mm f2.8L II
17-40mm f4L
50mm f1.4
90mm TS-E f2.8
135mm f2.0L

…along with your average MacBookPro 15″ (old gen). No color FX on the video.

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‘The way it used to be’

‘Nightfall’

‘Colors of nature’

Barack on Flickr.com

Adobe has made available Creative Suite 4 themed wallpapers and screen savers and you can download them here.

Adobe CS4 Wallpapers

Adobe CS4 Screen Saver - Mac

Adobe CS4 Screen Saver - Windows

Nikon has released its D300 firmware update (which was pulled earlier today). The A and B firmware updates to version 1.10 are available on its support site.

Features

The update features a number of refinements and fixes, including:

• The Highlights playback option has been moved from Display Mode > Basic photo info > Highlights in the playback menu to Display mode > Detailed photo info > Highlights.

• The size and color of “Demo” displayed in the monitor with playback when No memory card? in the Custom Settings has been set to Enable Release have been modified.

• The range of settings available for ISO sensitivity settings > ISO sensitivity auto control > Minimum shutter speed in the shooting menu has been increased from 1/250-1s to 1/4000-1s.

• When shooting in hand-held live view mode and the frame is magnified prior to autofocusing, operation has been modified so that display returns to the magnified display rather then the full frame display.

• Images captured with Rotate tall, in the playback menu, set to On, are not automatically rotated for display immediately after capture (image review).

• A Copyright information has been added to the setup menu. When Copyright information is enabled, the copyright symbol (©) is shown in the shooting info display.

• Recent settings can now be displayed in the place of My Menu.

• Custom Setting e3 Flash cntrl for built in flash ( e3 Optional flash when an optional Speedlight is mounted on the camera) can now be added to My Menu using the Add items > Custom setting menu > Bracketing/flash.

• The degree of the High ISO NR setting can now be confirmed in the shooting info display while the High ISO NR setting item, in the shooting menu, is being applied.

• Ankara, Riyadh, Kuwait and Manama have been added to the Time zone options for the World time item in the setup menu.

• When a GPS device is used and no heading information is available, –. — &degree; is now displayed for the Position/Heading option in the GPS item in the setup menu.

• When shooting in live view mode using Camera Control Pro 2 (ver. 2.2.0 or later) with a PC-E lens, the aperture setting can now be adjusted from the computer.

• Focus acquisition performance in dynamic-area AF mode has been improved.

• Focus acquisition performance with contrast-detect AF has been improved.

• Auto white balance performance has been improved.

• The fourth digit in seconds display for GPS latitude and longitude information is now rounded off rather than omitted.

• The current MB-D10 battery type setting can now be confirmed in the shooting menu display when R6/AA-size batteries are used with the Multi-Power Battery pack MB-D10.

• An issue that caused an increase in noise when shooting in [M] exposure mode at a shutter speed setting of bulb with the shutter held open for less than 8 seconds and Long exp. NR enabled has been resolved.

• An issue that prevented shutter release at the specified shutter speed when no operations were performed for 30 seconds in mirror up mode has been resolved.

• An issue that caused abnormal image display when Image review was set to On and the playback zoom in button was pressed immediately after shooting at the following settings has been resolved.

• Image quality: NEF+ JPEG   

• NEF recording: Lossless compressed or Compressed

• Image size: S or M

• When the Speedlight SB-800 was mounted on the camera with flash mode set to distance-priority manual mode and the camera recovered from standby mode triggered by the auto meter off function, the distance information in the SB-800 changed. This issue has been resolved.

‘Lots of acorns’

“The mill (twente style)’

Click on any of the shots for an enlargement!!

Obama is the new President of the USA!

Click here for some free downloadable goodies

Photo by David Goldman

Here’s how to create these symbols on your keyboard in OS X:

1. Basic setup; to be done once:
   • Open the International preference panel in System Preferences
   • Under the Input Menu tab, check the Unicode Hex Input box
   • Check the Show input menu in menu bar checkbox. The Input Method Menu Extra will appear as a national flag in the top right of your screen.
2. Click the flag and select U+ Unicode Hex Input
3. Hold down Option while entering the hexadecimal value and the symbol appears

Source: joel bruner

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