Old North Bridge
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I had to re-insert all these posts up to the end of February 2009 after updating to Wordpress 2.7.1. Hopefully that will not happen again.
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Well I have worked my way thru the forest of wordpress setup and Godaddy to finally get this blog up and running. I’ll have a few comments about doing your own blog in a following post.
My vision of how this blog will work is this. I am active on a number of email lists and find myself making the same comments over and over again as new people look for the same info. I thought a blog would be a good place to post FAQ type answers and then I could just post an answer here and point people at the answers. Or at least my version of the answers.
I’m also going to post general ruminations about the art and techniques of photography. Tricks and work arounds. I’ll be adding pointers to good resources that I have found on the web and elsewhere. And especially to other blogs and lists.
Right now I’m using Canon DSLR gear (I have a 350D and a 40D) and so you should expect that most of my comments will be targeted towards that equipment. This isn’t to discourage comments about other brands, I just happen to like Canon gear and of course I have a lot of money in Canon gear. I do not want to get into any bickering about ‘my brand is better than your brand’ by either myself or in the comments. You should certainly feel free to make brand specific comments but keep them to a polite level.
I also am a big proponent of post processing. While I think we are better off doing what we can to get a good exposure in the camera, I think that it is the rare shot that cannot be made better in post production(PP). All digital shots need some sharpening and other minor tweaks in PP. I use Adobe Photoshop, CS3 right now but I will almost certainly move up to CS4 as soon as I scrape up the cash.
I’m also interested in photographic history and think we can all learn something by looking back. So expect some posts about that.
My comment policy will be this: I love comments and will try to answer all of them. Just keep to the normal blog and list behavior. No personal attacks and no profanity or inappropriate language. No politics at all will be welcomed.
So hopefully I will get some views and off we go.