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handy list of flickr-related tools.

Hal Bergman’s gorgeous photos. damn.

Adam Tow of COBA posted a good list of Canon lenses and notes Patrick Murphy’s comprehensive list and database.

for my nikon, i have a 50mm/f1.8, a 17-70/f4.5-5.5 and a sigma 70-300/f4-5.6. since i do a lot of concerts, what i really want is a 20-100/f 1.4. but i can’t imagine such a thing existing (or costing less than my camera). for compairson purposes, note the 28mm/f1.4 is $1700; the 35mm/f2 is only $300.

camera owners of the bay area (COBA), DSLR user group.

Nation Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism 2005: Still Photography Winners.

Some handy tips from my friend Dennis:

• ExpoDisc (white balance/warm balance filter)
• white balance reference cards
• capture one
• noise ninja

More software

• Nik Multimedia software
• kodak software (digital roc, digital sho, digital gem)

Articles

• Nikonians on white balance
• TidBITS on Editing Photographs for the Perfectionist

In the TidBITS article, the author, Charles, points out a few tools:

• noise ninja
• focus magic
• focus fixer
• the imaging factory
• lensfix
• avisa plugins (he raves about shift+gain)
• polaroid dust and scratch removal
• photomagic (he raves about photozoom)

useful flickr tagging suggestions.

i’m one of the cool kids now. i have photos on flickr.

Simon likes this photo I took of Chaska Potter of Raining Jane.