New Website

The new website is now fully operational and I’ll be moving my blog postings there. The new site has quite a bit of new material including articles and fresh images. There will be video tutorials available soon and updates on new things happening in the industry.

See you there.

www.nickrains.com

Canon 5D Mk2 - Exciting Firmware Upgrade

Big news from Canon, a firmware upgrade to include 24/25fps and manual sound controls!

Press release follows:

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What’s 8 feet long and hungry?

On a completely non-photograhic subject, we had an unwelcome visitor to our chook shed last night and this morning I had to deal with the results…

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New Workshop Announced - Tasmania

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Freycinet Lodge

Christian Fletcher and I will be presenting another of our intensive photography workshops in December. This time we will be holding it in Tasmania at the wonderful Freycinet Lodge.

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Aperture 3 - Initial Impressions

A little white box just arrived in the mail from Apple - the hugely reworked Aperture 3. It’s installing now, and I’ll make some  comments over the next few days or so, as I get the hang of it. First impressions from the spec list in the press kit are good, there are tons of new features including - yay - local adjustments and proper geotagging.

Check out the Apple site here:

Aperture 3

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