Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Irish winter




Very lazy Christmas for me but this is what I need :) And some photos from Japan are still waiting in a queue!

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Friday, December 10, 2010

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Funny People






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How to quickly change a lens

I have to say I'm not the fastest man on the planet so I did some search and found few good videos. Take a look yourself.







Which technique is the best in your opinion? Or perhaps you know the better way?

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Nikon D7000 review

Just a quick one today to let you know that Nikon D7000 reviews have been published.
In English: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond7000/
In Polish: http://www.fotopolis.pl/index.php?n=11943

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Friday, December 3, 2010

Sort, select and archive your photos

If you take photos you probably keep plenty of them on your local hard drive. Can you imagine your hdd breaking down or catching a really bad virus and loosing your all images? I can’t. It’s the worst nightmare ever! Below I’ll share with you my idea how to sort, select and archive your “Preciousss”. I’m not saying it’s the best way but good enough for me. Feel free to steal it for yourself if you find it useful.
  1. First I create a folder named properly. Let’s say “Dublin by Night”
  2. Then I transfer all photos I’ve taken to my folder. Personally I use Adobe Bridge. 
  3. First look at all images. I delete really bad ones and doubles I won’t need for sure. 
  4. I change files names to “name_001”. It’s really easy in Bridge, just use Batch Rename tool. 
  5. When all these are done I do a backup on my external hard drive. 
  6. After that, I burn all photos on a DVD. 
  7. When I’m sure all above is done, I format memory card on my camera. 
  8. Then I go back to my main hard drive and start choosing my very best photos. I copy them to the subfolder named let’s say “Best”. 
  9. Now it’s time for post-processing. 
  10. Last step is exporting final photos to JPGs and saving them in proper subfolders like “Blog”, “Print” or whatever I need.
Seems like a lot of work, but in fact it’s not. And better be safe than sorry.

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Thursday, December 2, 2010

Fish market update

Few more photos of my favourite set from Japan - Tokyo Fish Market :) If you missed previous pics, just go directly to my flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/photocrumble/sets/72157625509866124/





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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

My new photo passion - Penguins :-)

These little fellas live in Osaka Oceanarium :-)






Photo update! I already selected my best pics from Japan so more photos really really soon. Penguins above are the first part.

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Saturday, November 20, 2010

Leaving Tokyo, leaving Japan

It's been fantastic two weeks but tomorrow I'm flying back to Dublin...


The good thing is I took loads of photos so it's not over with blogging. Be prepared for more shots in the remaining weeks of the year :-)

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Friday, November 19, 2010

Underground

Tokyo metro is huge and the map may look scary but it's the easiest and the fastest way to travel around the city.


oh, and few photos :)










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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Geisha Original

It's really difficult to capture Geisha on Japanese streets these days...






































...but I managed to do so :)





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