Posts under Random Thoughts Category
It’s spring break, and that means…. spring cleaning! I’ve been meaning to do some housekeeping around here for a while now, and now that I’ve gotten around to starting I realize it was long overdue. I redesigned the theme, adjusted the ads, and fixed a few things earlier this year,…
These days, every one and their mother has a nice digital camera. People assume that a nice camera automatically leads to nice pictures. It’s just that simple, right? Heck, this blog is about how to use your digital SLR camera to take professional pictures. So why should you pay $50,…
For the past few weeks, I’ve working on some SEO for this site. I just realized that, although this site is over a year old, I never claimed it on my profile in Technorati. Oops… So, this quick post has a simple purpose. I need to insert this code - G75ZCYP56J99…
So a while back, I with my friend’s Olympus FE-4020. It’s been a great little camera, and she loves the color. But, when she came back from a trip to Florida it wouldn’t work. The lens was stuck open, it wouldn’t move in and out, and it made a funny…
Suppose you decide you want to pursue a side business as a photographer. You’re not ready to dive in and open a studio full time, but you want to be able to take clients and do sessions or projects from time to time. One problem you’ll run up against is…
I’ve been working on small websites for the past five or six years, and in that time I’ve used two web hosts. I started with IX Webhosting, and I left at the end of my second year. I would not recommend them at all. The next host I found, on…
There are a couple of concerns you may have when comparing different printers. But, at some point, you probably want to think about the bottom line. How much is it going to cost to print? The best way to compare printers on this metric is to devise some kind of…
For the rest of the summer, I’m going to experiment with a new posting schedule. I want to stick with the basic schedule of posting once a day (unless an idea needs to be broken down into multiple posts), but I want a little more structure to the topics that…
If you’re subscribed to the RSS feed for this site, you’ve probably noticed that I try to post on average once a day. I missed a couple posts this weekend because I was away camping, but I try post only once, and occasionally twice, a day so as not to flood your…
I was going through the , converting them to CS5.5 and to backwards compatible IDML files, and I noticed something interesting. The same files, opened / converted / saved in CS5.5 are quite a bit smaller than those saved originally in CS5. The IDML files are also smaller – a…
