Michael Nielsen on February 13th, 2010

I will now continue my story on my first 10 years, if you have not read the first part you can read it here:
My 10 years with digital photography – Part One
When I got my camera phone
In 2006 I got my first camera phone – And my first thought about camera phones, was that it [...]

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Michael Nielsen on January 28th, 2010

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.6.1 is in other respects said to be the same as the recently published Lightroom 2.6 release, which added support for a variety of cameras from Canon, Nikon and other and fixing a processing issue on PowerPC-based Mac OS machines. The latest release, is only Leica M9 for users, others should stay [...]

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Michael Nielsen on December 11th, 2009

Professional photographer Mark Wallace has created a distance demo of the PocketWizard Mini and Flex.

Please PocketWizard – Begin shipping the Nikon version!
YouTube – Distance demo with PocketWizard Mini and Flex.

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Michael Nielsen on November 19th, 2009

I have been testing Lightroom 3 Beta for the past 4 weeks, and I like some of the new stuff added to the program.
I have however also submitted a couple of bug reports, and for one of those I created a video of my workflow when looking a photos after a photo session.

As always, go [...]

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Michael Nielsen on October 28th, 2009

I attended a workshop a week ago, and one of my new photography friends contacted me. She needed to get some details regarding my on-location flash equipment. So I wrote this list with links to where to buy or find it.
Lighting stand
I previously used some Interfit lighting stands (Interfit COR750), but I recently upgraded to [...]

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Michael Nielsen on October 22nd, 2009

Adobe has released Lightroom 3 as beta to to public. It can be downloaded here:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom3/

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Michael Nielsen on September 15th, 2009

… And Adobe Camera Raw 5.5 ..
This updated provide support for the following cameras:
Nikon D300s
Nikon D3000
Olympus E-P1
Panasonic DMC-FZ35
Panasonic DMC-GF1
There are some issues to note regarding the Panasonic DMC-FZ35, here in Europe this camera is being marketed as DMC-FZ38 – And will not be supported until the next update of Lightroom/Camera RAW.
Release notes:

Lightroom 2.5 and Camera [...]

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Michael Nielsen on August 31st, 2009

According to Canon Rumors, the EOS 7D is the next camera from Canon.
Some of the specs are:

18 mpix
APS-C (1.6 crop factor)
8 FPS
Full HD Video

Found via Bag Kameraet.

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Michael Nielsen on August 16th, 2009

A while back I wrote about remembering to backup, and since that post I have optimized my daily and weekly backup routines.
When importing my images to Lightroom from my memorycard, I always select to backup to a secondary destination (on my server). And I never postpone the weekly Lightroom backup, even though it might take [...]

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Michael Nielsen on August 13th, 2009

Last Thursday the final episode of Nikon DTown TV was released, but fear not the guys will be back with another show in a few weeks. And this time it seems to be all about photography and gear, not just Nikon stuff.
The DTown TV show contains a lot of tips for Nikon DSLR cameras, and [...]

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