Printing Prints

Printing can be for the birds

Printing your own stuff is expensive. It is actually VERY expensive, but it gives you complete control.  If you have prints made they can also get pricy.  Here is what I do with prints I make and how I figured out how much it costs to print and mat [...]

Trey Ratcliff, HDR, Kittens, The Austin Photography Group

You kill a kitten every time you post a bad HDR image.

Blog post should be succinct and limited in scope. I’ll try. No promises.

The Austin Photography Group holds a meeting the second Sunday of every month here in Austin. Their meetup website: http://www.meetup.com/photo-438/ I’ve been wanting to go for months [...]

Lone Star Beer Can White Balance (Wonkish)

Summary: I’ve added a new body to my street bag.  The color is different between body models.  While color-correcting images I found that the white found on a can of Lone Star Beer is a very convenient way to do a quick white-balance correction in Adobe Bridge.

I’ve been shooting all Nikon D3oo bodies last year.  [...]

The Four Most Important Things when reading about the Ten things...

Lots of sites seem to provide a short list of 10 or 8 or 15 things to consider when shooting, printing, visualizing, et cetera.

Blah.  I even saw a post today about shooting the triangle.  Sure, it’s a compositional technique but it misses the point that it is one of many compositional and design techniques that [...]

Problem: Errors when uploading images into a post

Right now I’m just testing to see when I get an error

When I upload a 1x1px images I don’t get any errors. When I upload any other image from 50x50px to 5×7@300ppi (1500x2100px image) I get this error message:

Warning: imagecreatefromstring() [function.imagecreatefromstring]: No JPEG support in this PHP build in /export/home/davidw/weaver.net/wp-admin/includes/image.php on line 147
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Is [...]

What is an A-List event?

I get asked this question a lot when I’m out in the field shooting.  The A-List on http://www.austin360.com is a major customer of mine.  I wear a branded shirt at every event I shoot for them so I am readily identifiable as a shooter for them.

This question isn’t well answered at an event I’m working [...]

Problem (solved): I can post but I get 404 errors on all pages

Can’t get the wordpress loop to display anything? But, the main page displays okay? Me neither until yesterday. After beating my head against the desk for a couple days (aka: knock on wood) I finally logged a support request with the folks that host my WPinstallation and pointed them to my .htaccess [...]