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| bio | website | chuqui.com |
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| location | California | |
| age | 54 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 11 months |
| seen | 8 hours ago | |
| stats | profile views | 111 |
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Sep 28 |
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Is it normal for memory usage in Lightroom 3 to exceed 1.5GB, and what can I do about it? When I upgraded to Lion, I found Lightroom no longer worked well enough for me in 4 gig, so I upgraded to 8 gig. Now that I'm running mountain lion, it seems to be a bit laggy at times (2010 Macbook Pro 2.4GHz), enough to annoy me at times. the primary slowdown seems to be convrting to and using DNG, so I've switched conversion to the end of my workflow and it's sped things up a lot. It doesn't seem to be memory, but CPU saturation. |
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Sep 26 |
answered | Are there any open-source 'skinnable' photography galleries? |
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Sep 12 |
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Best easy-to-carry-around Canon (or ANY OTHER) camera plus lenses for bird /wildlife/landscape photography (hobby)? looking back on this comment, I don't want to make it sound like I don't think a monopod or tripod is helpful. Both are in the right situations, and can increase sharpness on many shots. But I don't think they are required any more for a lot of situations. |
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Sep 12 |
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What “start up” telephoto lenses do you recommend for Canon for wildlife photography? updating: I'm not using flickr now, so those links broke. Here's the bear shot in its new home: photos.chuqui.com/…, and a nice shot from the Tamron @ 35mm: photos.chuqui.com/yosemite_chapel_20110516133223_chuq.html |
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Sep 12 |
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Which lenses are best for macro and for birdwatching (both Canon and Nikon)? updating: I'm no longer using flickr, so that link broke. Here's that shot in its new location: photos.chuqui.com/pismo_misty_morning_20100718091552_chuq.html And I retired my 100-400 for a different setup. Here's some thoughts why: chuqui.com/2012/09/… |
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Sep 12 |
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Best easy-to-carry-around Canon (or ANY OTHER) camera plus lenses for bird /wildlife/landscape photography (hobby)? That's very close to what I started with and shot for the first 3-4 years of my bird photography. It'll work fine. (my first body was a Rebel XT). |
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Sep 12 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Sep 12 |
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Best easy-to-carry-around Canon (or ANY OTHER) camera plus lenses for bird /wildlife/landscape photography (hobby)? disagree on needing a tripod unless you have scorching sun. This is one place where IS makes a huge difference, so if you're going to shoot very early or late, an IS lens is very handy. this image: photos.chuqui.com/201110301812064_chuq.jpg was shot after6PM in October. ISO 3200 on a 7D, 1/125 @ F5.6, handheld, with a 420mm lens. So you can do good and sharp in bad light handheld iwth practice and technique. |
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Sep 12 |
awarded | equipment-recommendation |
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Sep 12 |
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Best easy-to-carry-around Canon (or ANY OTHER) camera plus lenses for bird /wildlife/landscape photography (hobby)? speaking of eagles, here's one I shot over the weekend with my setup (7d+300F4+1.4x). There's some cropping, and I think the worry about cropping is somewhat overrated these days. photos.chuqui.com/… -- also, don't forget if you have to crop heavily, you have an option of using a tool like "perfect resize" to upscale the image so it can be printed larger. Lots of options beyond "more glass" these days. |
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Sep 11 |
answered | Best easy-to-carry-around Canon (or ANY OTHER) camera plus lenses for bird /wildlife/landscape photography (hobby)? |
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Sep 10 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Sep 6 |
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What options are there for good, cheap online backup of photos? the new amazon glacier service looks to be worth investigating, but at this point, I'm waiting to see what front end systems are built to take advantage of it. (expecting Jungledisk to have a good product at some point). |
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Aug 26 |
answered | What is the best auto-focus mode to use for bird photography? |
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Aug 19 |
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Tips to buy second lens for Canon 550D Not everyone agrees with the recommendation on the 50mm. check this note: photo.stackexchange.com/questions/14313/… |
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Aug 16 |
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Why is the sky in photos always too white? another common option here is the graduated ND filter, which can affect only the over-exposed parts. You can also in many cases process a single image in different ways, one to do the sky, one for the ground, and then layer them together in photoshop or an HDR program. multi-image HDR is usually better, but not always practical |
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Aug 11 |
answered | Is it possible to manage photos without importing them into libraries in iPhoto or Aperture? |
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Aug 10 |
awarded | Necromancer |
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Aug 8 |
answered | Beginner lenses for Canon T2i |
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Jul 22 |
awarded | Yearling |
