When I purchased my 5D I told myself I’d try my hand at a video. Well, one year later I’ve finally worked up the ambition to learn some video editing and publish something This video represents the past year of owning this camera. I learned a great deal in the process (mostly about how to [...]

I recently replaced my Canon Rebel XTi with a 5D Mark II, so I thought I’d share a few shots I got with the new camera while on vacation in Hawaii.  The higher resolution and (much) lower noise has been the biggest advantage at this point, but it helps that I now have two L [...]

I have recently begun switching from Aperture to Lightroom for my photography workflow (look for another blog post about that at some point), but on my new unibody Macbook Pro I noticed that Lightroom appeared to be unbearably slow when dumping large volumes of data.  I suspected that FileVault (which I only keep enabled on [...]