Category Archives: Technique

FREE: My Word 2010 QAT

Posted on July 17, 2010 by Allan Jackson

Setting up the Quick Access Toolbar in Word 2010 does take a little bit of fiddling but, as I discovered, one can export the setup once you have it arranged to your satisfaction. You can then import that file into … Continue reading →

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Shooting panoramas

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Allan Jackson

I seem to be doing a fair bit on panoramas lately. One of the first articles I wrote concerned how to shoot them and I wrote that you had to shoot a series of overlapping pictures. The picture below shows … Continue reading →

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A cute trick

Posted on June 19, 2010 by Allan Jackson

One of the frustrations I often encounter as an editor is that people will load pictures into a word processing document before sending  them to me for publication. It is a problem because there was no way of getting the pictures … Continue reading →

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Aspect ratios

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Allan Jackson

Here’s a quick note on what aspect ratios are and how they apply to planning a screen-based slideshow or presentation. It follows up on my previous post on ProShow Gold 4.1 and explains what I meant when I said that … Continue reading →

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HDR master

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Allan Jackson

One of the main limitations of all cameras has been that they cannot capture the same number of brightness levels in a scene that the human eye can. This has led to the situation where the photographer has to make … Continue reading →

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Rick made me do it

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Allan Jackson

Photoshop fun: Rick made me do it. Continue reading →

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Exposure compensation

Posted on January 3, 2010 by Allan Jackson

A friend asked me the other day what the exposure compensation feature on his camera did, and why he might need such a thing. I’m not bound to any particular agenda for this blog, so I thought I would have a bash at explaining. Continue reading →

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B+W Conversion

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Allan Jackson

I never use the black and white setting on my D90 in case I want the picture in colour. Continue reading →

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Going off-camera

Posted on November 21, 2009 by Allan Jackson

I was honoured to asked to do a demonstration of off-camera flash for Bluff Camera Club this week. Continue reading →

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The Hot Shoe Diaries

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Allan Jackson

I may have mentioned that one of the most exciting developments in my photography in recent times was the discovery of off-camera flash. Or, if I wanted to be strictly accurate, my recent rediscovery of off-camera flash.. I was browsing … Continue reading →

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