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| bio | website | ajhenderson.com |
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| location | Troy, NY | |
| age | 28 | |
| visits | member for | 8 months |
| seen | 4 hours ago | |
| stats | profile views | 100 |
I am a software architect by day and a professional Audio/Visual tech by night. I graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 2006 with a dual major in Computer Science and Electronic Media, Arts and Communications.
I operate a professional wedding photography business with the goal of bringing affordable, quality photographic services to my community. I am a die hard Canon since buying my first Canon GL2 for my wedding videography days that started back in high school.
I currently shoot with a 5D Mark iii with battery grip, 24-70 F/2.8L, 17-40 F/4L, 70-300 F/4 IS, Speedlite 600EX-RT, Speedlite 320EX, CP-E4 battery pack, Lumiquest Softbox and QuickBounce. I also use a H4n for audio recording when using the 5D for video. I also use an xTi in reserve as a backup camera. I also operate a Pixma Pro-1 and primarily use Canon Pro Luster paper for my in-house prints.
I'm also a die hard Adobe fan and have worked with Master Collection since CS2. I'm fluent in almost every Adobe product, though my skills in Flash and Fireworks have aged for the last few years.
I have been working with computers since I was 3 and writing code and playing with cameras since I was 6 or 7. Technology, Photography, Videography, Sound, Lighting, 3D Animation and SCUBA Diving are all lifetime passions of mine.
I was the IT Director for GameCube Café and then Wiicafé.com and also planned and ran their multimedia coverage of E3 from 2003 to 2006. I also do occasional development consulting with American Digital Services.
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How do I shoot in tethered mode using own software to control the camera? @MichaelClark - if there is any display that is capable of making light bright enough to damage a camera, where has it been hiding all these years? That would have to be one very very bright display (probably impossible). Also, displaying pure white shouldn't damage a screen unless it is very poorly designed indeed. |
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Where can I find a place to sell my digital photography without creating my own website? @John - what did you find? It could be a site that someone here is familiar with. |
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What does infinity focus mean and when should I use it? Ok, I see what I was missing now. Deleted my answer since I don't think I can easily adapt it to fix it and there are other good answers now. Thanks for the clarification. |
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What are the optimal settings for scanning photos? @Oceanic815 - then yes, TIFF is the way to go. I personally have never had need of particularly high resolution as I normally only do document scanning. (I've been all digital since the mid-90s.) |
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Looking for a new point and shoot camera! @Shane - snapsort.com/compare/Nikon-Coolpix-S9500-vs-Samsung-WB800F might be helpful. The Samsung should probably do better in low light (faster lens, higher ISO) and can take photos of things closer to you. The Nikon zooms out much further optically. As far as which of those is more important, that's up to you. |
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Looking for a new point and shoot camera! @Shane - honestly, most of the experts don't bother much with the point and shoot market. Pretty much no point and shoot ever gets the quality of even an entry level DSLR, so for most of us if we want image quality, we bring our DSLR and if we don't care about quality, our camera phones are sufficient. Reviews from people actually using the cameras are probably going to give you the best information. The few who do go in to the Point and Shoot market generally don't stay current on what is going on in it. |
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Looking for a new point and shoot camera! Unfortunately shopping questions are considered off topic on most StackExchange sites. A good recommendation requires specific knowledge of your needs which makes it very localized and also becomes out of date very rapidly, which makes it even less generally useful. Particularly for a point and shoot, simply looking at reviews on a site like Amazon or B&H is going to give you far more knowledgeable and up to date information on the various offerings currently available. |
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What are the optimal settings for scanning photos? @Oceanic815 - personally, I generally scan directly in to Photoshop via WIA support, make my adjustments and save a PSD. The scanner should show up under Import in Photoshop. And yes, you want to work with uncompressed, high bit depth files until you are done with making your adjustments. |
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Where can I find a place to sell my digital photography without creating my own website? @John - outside of selling them yourself, good luck. Just the credit card transaction itself is typically 3 to 3.5% for card not present transactions, plus a 25 to 50 cent transaction fee. Then you have to add printing costs, which can be fairly significant. For all the work that an online vendor does, they are going to want (and deserve) far, FAR more than 10%. The only way you might find that is a hosting company that you can pay monthly to host your files and then tie to a printing company that will take care of printing and shipping at a decent rate. |
