Author Archives: kyber

Workflow to process lots of photos from a shoot using Lightroom 3

After a lengthy model shoot, my wife and I may well have over 1000 images to review, so I would be completely lost without Lightroom – I have had it from the first version, and upgraded quickly when 3 came out having been very pleased with the beta.Workflow wise: I import from the memory card …

30 August 2010 – 12:22 | By kyber | Posted in Photography | Tagged , | View Comments

Portait of me taken by my wife

Thanks for this, my dear Taken on Swansea beach – I am leaning on the sea wall protecting the port.  Posted via email from kyber’s posterous

29 August 2010 – 20:43 | By kyber | Posted in blog | View Comments

The art of photography and incredible technology changes to come

How will our art evolve when we have 3d, omni-focus, very large dynamic range, high-speed video cameras rather than single focus, narrow dynamic range, still (and sometimes hd video) cameras? The development of omni-focus cameras (that is, cameras that can keep everything in sharp focus at all times, with no focusing required) has been talked …

26 August 2010 – 07:39 | By kyber | Posted in Photography, blog | Tagged , , , | View Comments

Time lapse video

I make no secret of my enjoyment of photography. I readily acknowledge that I am no great practitioner (too much haste, no natural eye), but I enjoy it. I never got into video and on the whole I think for most memories a photograph is more powerful than a video. Of course, a well produced …

24 August 2010 – 07:52 | By kyber | Posted in Photography | Tagged , , , | View Comments

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-22

Daughter: 17th birthday party. Loads of teens (M&F) stayed overnight. What did they do? Played Monopoly for three hours!! # Powered by Twitter Tools

22 August 2010 – 01:08 | By kyber | Posted in tweets | Tagged | View Comments

Portraiture camera settings

On a photography group on linkedin someone asked for advice on what settings worked best for portraiture. I replied thus: You have great advice, and a wonderful example (which I have made a favourite on flickr).Let me add some basics, apologies for teaching you to suck eggs if you know all this already, but just …

16 August 2010 – 20:54 | By kyber | Posted in Photography, blog | Tagged , , | View Comments

Books bought on Audible.com

14/08/2010 Calculating God (Unabridged) Part 1 Robert J. Sawyer 5 hrs and 17 mins 14/08/2010 Calculating God (Unabridged) Part 2 Robert J. Sawyer 6 hrs and 47 mins 14/08/2010 Darkship Thieves (Unabridged) Part 1 Sarah A. Hoyt 6 hrs and 58 mins 14/08/2010 Darkship Thieves (Unabridged) Part 2 Sarah A. Hoyt 7 hrs and 25 …

15 August 2010 – 22:03 | By kyber | Posted in Book Lists | Tagged , , | View Comments

Daughter: 17th birthday party….

Daughter: 17th birthday party. Loads of teens (M&F) stayed overnight. What did they do? Played Monopoly for three hours!!

15 August 2010 – 13:37 | By kyber | Posted in tweets | Tagged | View Comments

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-15

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15 August 2010 – 02:08 | By kyber | Posted in tweets | Tagged | View Comments

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom tuto…

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom tutorials by Julieanne Kost http://ff.im/-pfPDg

14 August 2010 – 22:05 | By kyber | Posted in tweets | Tagged | View Comments