Archives for the 'rant' Category
DxO Works
Saturday, January 16th, 2016
For my photographer friends: I’m beginning to establish a workflow with DxO Optics Pro. It seems to be working pretty well. I just needed to make a print of the photo in the last post here that was selected for the upcoming show at LightBox Photographic Gallery. I had already processed the photo in Photoshop. […]
How Many Models?
Monday, January 11th, 2016
A friend of mine, Dave Swanson, did a blog post a little while back where he expressed an opinion that I disagree with. If you know Dave you’ll know that he is a man of strong opinions. I frequently disagree with him. You might even say that I usually disagree with him. But he is […]
I Hate Adobe
Sunday, October 11th, 2015
The time I have feared has come. Windows 10 broke PhotoShop CS6. I was able to install it from my disk (which I purchased legally, btw). But it would not update to add the changes that have happened since I bought it. Adobe, of course, offered no help at all. Their attitude is: “tough luck, […]
Is High Quality Health Care Hazardous To Your Health?
Thursday, January 15th, 2015
I’d like to share a few thoughts about my recent interface with the Medical/Industrial Complex. A brief recap of what happened to me: I got sick with what appeared to be the flu. Actually, it was a drug reaction to an antibiotic I was taking for the aftereffects of bronchitis. I was on the next […]
An Interesting Rant
Wednesday, September 17th, 2014
I read a blog post this morning that I found interesting and provocative. So I decided to take a break from posting Starved Rock photos and share that post and write a bit about it myself. Go here to read the post by Randall Armor. Ralph Gibson has been a “famous photographer” since the days […]
Time’s Up
Sunday, April 7th, 2013
Sometimes I feel the need to wade out over my head in the deep end of the pool, get on my soapbox and spout off. So, here goes a rant that’s been building up for a while. We’ll get back to the irregularly scheduled nudity soon. I’m sticking a bunch of Wikipedia links in this […]
Which Side Are You On?
Sunday, March 18th, 2012
No photos today. Just one of my rants. You’ve been warned. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…” It’s hard for us to realize, nearly 250 years after Thomas Jefferson wrote those words, just how radical a statement that was at the time. That was the age of the […]
Boycott Adobe
Friday, December 2nd, 2011
I’ve ranted here about Adobe before. I was upset when I found that they were not supporting the last version of PhotoShop, CS4, just one version back from the current CS5. That meant that I could not process the RAW files from my Nikon D7000 with CS4. I don’t upgrade every time Adobe comes out […]
Instant Julie and a PhotoShop Rant
Friday, September 9th, 2011
Like pretty much everyone else who has been doing photography for any amount of time, I’ve worked from time to time with Polaroid instant materials. “Back in the day” I used Polaroids to check lighting and exposure when working with strobe lighting in the studio. The digital equipment we use these days has completely eliminated […]
Happy July 4
Sunday, July 3rd, 2011
It’s the holiday weekend when we in the US celebrate the beginning of our country, the greatest, most successful experiment in government in the history of the world. Our country is certainly not without flaws, yet I must maintain that it is, nevertheless, the best country with the best form of government on the planet today. […]
