How to Set Up Photoshop and Lightroom to Work Well With Your SSDs
Photoshop uses a lot of RAM. It will take as much as you can throw its way, and then some more. As a way to use ‘more’ RAM than a computer had available physically, the developers took to creating scratch…
Simple SSD Configuration Guide for Photo-Editing Desktop Workstations
It’s 2020, and you should definitely be using Solid State Drives (SSD) for your photography workflow to be efficient in ANY photo editor. However, this is especially important for RAW image workflows in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic, and Adobe Photoshop…
Recent Hacks Show That Your Passwords Aren’t Safe. Make Sure Yours Are, TODAY!
Recently it was revealed that a few photography related websites had been compromised, and account passwords were leaked to the ‘dark web’. Was yours one of them? Read on to find out how you can check this out, and keep…
Back-up Your Files Correctly: The Story of How I Almost Lost All My Photographs
Earlier this year, I almost lost all my images (from 2006 to 2014). I also almost all the pictures that my father had taken from 2008 to 2014. Turns out, I didn’t lose them all, but that’s only because of…
The Camera Platform Debate: Canon Vs Nikon
Mac Vs. PC, Coke Vs. Pepsi, Nikon Vs. Canon In many ways, this photographic debate is very much like the Mac Vs. PC debate. In many ways, it’s not. The debate has always been fuelled by passionate fans of each…
Review Saramonic SmartMic Mobile Condenser Microphone
I came upon the Saramonic SmartMic (also called the i-Mic) by accident, while window shopping at FotoTrade. I mistakenly thought it was similar to the Rode SmartLav+ and was quite surprised to find a similar product at that price point….
Lens Buying Flowchart
This simple-yet-effective lens buying guide helps you make the right decision every time. Found somewhere on the internet. #Humor
What dSLR Camera Should a Beginner Buy? – Tiny Tips 21
Most first-time dSLR camera buyers ask around a lot, and do a lot of research before making their first (or second) camera purchase. They’re justified in their concern that they should not buy something that turns out to be a…
How-to Save RAW File Edits Without a Lightroom Catalogue file
If you don’t do this one thing, you will lose all your edits when your lightroom catalog file gets corrupted. This is the one setting that I always turn on as soon as I install Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (LR) on…
How To Recharge Silica Gel Crystals
Silica Gel absorbs moisture in the air around your camera equipment (such a material is called an adsorbent). This ensures that the area is not friendly for fungus to grow inside your camera lenses (article I wrote about keeping fungus at…
GoPro Vibration Reduction Techniques – Tiny Tips No. 20
Sometimes, when you mount a GoPro camera on the body of a vehicle, the engine, panel vibration or buffeting by the wind, makes the camera vibrate. The result is video footage that seems to warp, wobble, and kind of act…
Hasselblad CFV-50c CMOS Sensor Digital Back for V-system
The name Hasselblad is synonymous with high quality medium format photography. Over the years hundreds and thousands of medium format 120 film Hasselblad cameras have been made and sold. They eventually became unsuitable for most commercial photography (except that Phase One have kept…
Is this the future of the compact camera? Sony’s new Cybershot QX100 and QX10 lens-style cameras
Sony has just announced something that is probably revolutionary to the compact camera market, but when you think about it, seems like an obvious step in its evolution. It’s a stabilised zoom lens, that has a 20Mpx sensor, battery, flash…
The Death of Google Reader & How To Stay Subscribed to Beyond Photo Tips
Everyone is talking about it … the imminent death of Google Reader on July 1st … and a ton of you are still using it. It’s time you did something about it, or you’ll lose all the RSS feeds you’ve…
1 Trillion FPS. Photographing Light Itself
Who would ever have thought that we’d be able to see how light travels through our world? Yet here’s a video of a pulse of laser light travelling and dispersing through a bottle. Ramesh Raskar from MIT’s media lab talks…
