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| bio | website | grumpyjohns.com |
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| location | Toronto, Canada | |
| age | 44 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 10 months |
| seen | 29 mins ago | |
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Software architect and developer. I use a variety of technologies but at work it's generally C++, HTML, ASP (JScript), Flex, and SVG. For personal stuff, I tend to use PHP, C#, perl, and everything I use at work. :)
I've been designing and developing for well over a decade in the enterprise software market, first with IP billing, now with ticketing (no, not TicketMaster). I'm a classic case of a jack-of-all-trades, but my intuition is good and I pick up programming languages like a sponge picks up water.
For fun, I'm an avid amateur photographer and especially enjoy nature and macro photography. I've also started getting into more studio oriented stuff, acquiring some lighting, background stands, and other gadgets for that purpose. My current weapon of choice is the Nikon D800. Check out my website for some of my photography DIY projects, some of which have been featured on the well-known DIY Photography site.
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Jan 6 |
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What aperture should I use to photograph people and why? Are you sure? Longer lenses usually have thinner DoF, wider angles have deeper. I agree with your immediate statement about the background, the role it plays is important, but after that it doesn't appear to be accurate. I should note that I mean apparent depth of field in regards to the focal length. |
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Jan 6 |
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Fisheye Image Quality: Improves with Price? @Leonidas - It's a fair question, we were all beginners once and the lure of a cheaper option and misinformed sales people can often lead people to make those decisions. Starting to ask the question is how you avoid the same mistake twice. :) |
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Jan 6 |
answered | Fisheye Image Quality: Improves with Price? |
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Jan 5 |
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What are the best techniques for photographing overweight people? +1 - Great suggestions! |
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Jan 5 |
answered | What are the best techniques for photographing overweight people? |
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Jan 5 |
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What are the best techniques for photographing overweight people? I agree, nothing odd about the question. |
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Jan 5 |
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Are airport x-ray scanners safe for DSLRs / lenses / storage media? @Reid - Thanks! |
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Jan 5 |
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Is it possible to shoot an Aurora Borealis with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX35 +1 - Good article and, as an added bonus, yet another reason that the UV filter is more of a pain than it's worth! |
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Jan 5 |
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How much of a difference do different color spaces make? +1 - You're way too much of a colour geek! :) |
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Jan 4 |
answered | Are airport x-ray scanners safe for DSLRs / lenses / storage media? |
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Jan 3 |
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What photograph-manipulation application matches my specific feature wishlist? +1 LOL - Ninjas and pirates in one go! |
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Jan 2 |
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What are backup options for the lazy but paranoid dSLR user? Well, for the little drives that are powered from USB, probably not an issue. Of course, as solid state drives get bigger and cheaper, I think it becomes even less an issue. The tech is improving. :) |
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Jan 2 |
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What are backup options for the lazy but paranoid dSLR user? There are fireproof enclosures available as well as at least one fireproof safe that I found with a USB cable of all things that allows for a USB drive to be connected from inside the safe. So, if online is not an option because of ongoing cost, one of these might add some additional security for a more local solution. |
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Jan 2 |
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What are backup options for the lazy but paranoid dSLR user? See also photo.stackexchange.com/questions/2138/storage-recommendations |
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Jan 1 |
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New years resolutions Raw Therapee is excellent, though when you want to do more forms of manipulation and some advanced techniques, GIMP is probably going to be useful to you. |
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Jan 1 |
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New years resolutions I just finished a Project 365. Fun, but it's going to be a while before I consider doing that again! |
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Jan 1 |
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Removing rust from a lens's mount? Congrats on the lens, I have the same one and it's a fun lens to use. I don't have specific advice for DIY on this, but you can also probably take it to a photography store for cleaning. You may want to anyways, just to have the aperture blades and glass checked as well. |
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Dec 31 |
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Prime lens or flash: which upgrade will most improve baby photos? I have to agree, though there are some tricks to diffusing the popup flash to make it less harsh, it's easier to deal with a decent flash that can tilt/swivel for bounce and softer light. |
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Dec 31 |
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Is it worth to keep the preview image in the DNG files? No prob, we can debate in chat if you want, I'd like to see what you think is a reasonable solution. |
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Dec 31 |
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Is it worth to keep the preview image in the DNG files? @mattdm - More in response to the nature of your questions which, honestly, felt antogonistic to me almost if in response to something that happened at work related to this. In any case, cost per meg on the disk itself is still going to be cheap versus the costs of other things related to securing it, in my opinion. Besides, I think we're way off topic now... :) |
