Monthly Archives: July 2008

Software for Beginner, Improver, and Advanced Photographers

Which Photo Software? What photo software you need, when, and why...

Which Photo Soft­ware? What photo soft­ware you need, when, and why…

I recently dis­cussed the must haves / don’t needs of buy­ing a dig­i­tal cam­era, depend­ing on the stage of your pho­tog­ra­phy obses­sion :-) . I would imag­ine that most of the time photo’s come straight out of the cam­era and onto paper, if at all. If you want to take your photo’s that lit­tle bit fur­ther, here are some soft­ware tools which can smooth the way…

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A Home on the Web (Part 2 — If you build it…)

Last time out, I out­lined some con­sid­er­a­tions around domain names. In the end I went with a “.ie” and a “.com” address, but while choos­ing a good domain name is some­what impor­tant, the real work only starts then — reg­is­tra­tion, host­ing, email, etc. My next deci­sion was where to reg­is­ter as there are many, many domain reg­is­trars out there, and at least with the “.com” some can be had for free (with a huge dose of adver­tis­ing on the side of course).

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Always “Shoot” the Support!

Duffy @ Dolans

Who is this world wide No. 1 artist play­ing sup­port at Dolans?

Dolans Ware­house is one of my favourite places on this earth. It’s a small, cosy, con­cert venue on the Dock Road in Lim­er­ick and it puts on some great acts. The mere men­tion of Jack L, The 4 of Us, The Walls, Mundy, The Stun­ning, The Hot­house Flow­ers, or Duke Spe­cial play­ing there, and you will find me in the front row!

Unfor­tu­nately, it is often the case that the sup­port acts get lit­tle respect as peo­ple get the drinks in before the main event. But per­haps we should pay a lit­tle more attention…

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A Home on the Web…

I have long pon­dered set­ting up a “Home on the Web”. Obvi­ously, if you are read­ing this, I must have actu­ally got around to it, but what does it take to make it happen?

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What Camera Should I Buy?

Or it could be “What do you think of this cam­era?” or “Is this a good deal?” or… or… or… Not to labour the point, but I get asked this a lot by my friends and fam­ily. I don’t mind, as I def­i­nitely suf­fer from an addic­tion to cam­era porn (i.e. research­ing, review­ing, buy­ing the lat­est and great­est cam­eras and acces­sories :-) ). In the cam­era buy­ing world, reli­gious wars are many, and opin­ions are strongly held. As a ser­vice to the world at large I will share my opin­ions with you…

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