Off to San Francisco

Off to San Francisco

Quick one today:

- I'm leaving for San Francisco on Monday for work, and my camera will travel with me. Hopefully I'll get some nice shots!

- At the Canberra Photographic Society meeting on Tuesday I watched a demo of Blurb. Blurb is a service that prints books (at any quantity!). They are very well priced, ship world wide, and the software (available for both Mac and PC) looks pretty good - I'll be definitely giving Blurb a go.

- I'm up to Module Five of the photography course - Light & Colour. I've packed it for reading on the plane. Results so far are: Module 1 = 9/10, Module 2 = 10/10 and Module 3 = 10/10 :)

- Really enjoying working in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, can't say enough good things about this software.

- I'm a bit pissed off that the copy of Nikon Capture NX that came with the camera is in Japanese... grrrr.

- After shooting many identical shots in both RAW (14bit) and best quality JPEG and comparing them, JPEG comes out the clear winner. The photos are equally sharp, but the JPEG photos contain almost no chromatic aberrations and I think the colour looks better. I'm sure the RAW file can be fixed to look better than the JPEG straight out of the camera, but that would be a considerable amount of work and I really doubt that the end result would be noticeably better. The burst rate for JPEG is much higher than RAW, and of course I can fit many more photos on the 4GB card.