My Twitter

You may or may not have noticed, but I’ve removed my twitter feed from the site, as it’s now private due to spammers, but please feel free to follow me if your genuine !

Streetlight Serenity

Streetlight Serenity, originally uploaded by ianjofriel.
I’ve found that making time recently, and more to the point, trying to make time in reasonable weather, to go and take some photos has been really difficult.

D60 RGB Histogram workaround

It’s commonly noted that the D60 dropped the RGB histogram as per the D80 due to it’s intended audience, being deemed more confusing than helpful and voila, the combined histogram… which is pretty useless to determine clipping in each colour…

Glasgow by Night

Proud, originally uploaded by ianjofriel.

Keep an eye out for a selection of some photos taken around glasgow by night, showing the bright coloured reflections on the wet ground..

Erin’s Eyes

Eyes, originally uploaded by ianjofriel.
Accidentally left my SB900 on Manual at full power rather than balanced TTL and fired off a shot, completely washed her out except her features, and there has been absolutely minimal editing on this pic – I love it !

Networkable Trigger for the D60

I’m not 100% on the use of this yet…. but in the simplest possible way, I can fire the D60 via Ethernet. Whilst playing about with the Arduino, Ethernet Shield and an IR LED, I’ve managed to slap together some code that fires the D60 ( and anything else that the ML-L3 remote can trigger ) in response to a network ping…

Arduino

Genius use of the Arduino board + twitter… take a look… http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8063975.stm

Nikons…just work

Got the F401s ( also called the N4004 in the states, N series = american, F Series = elsewhere, but the model numbers don’t correlate to each other ), and after cleaning it up a bit, even although it was in good nick when it arrived, I still cleaned out the mirror both, focus screen and [...]

Lightroom Presets

Thought i’d share this collection of Lightroom Presets with you, will add more as time goes on…
http://www.640pixels.com/articles/free-adobe-lightroom-presets.aspx - 3 Good B&W plus 4 split tones for each…
http://digitalfreak.net/2008/12/22/lightroom-600-free-presets-to-download/ - over 600 presets – never be stuck again… you’ll no doubt find a large portion of these to be not your taste, but you can remove what you don’t need [...]

Adobe Lightroom

Found my first major annoyance with Lightroom / Adobe Camera Raw.
If I shoot raw ( .nef ) with my D60, it incorporates all the settings from the camera, such as saturation, sharpness etc, which it would apply if you are shooting JPEG or RAW+JPEG ( it also uses them to create the embedded jpeg preview [...]