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Todays tutorial is about using your digital SLR. People have been asking about my process for taking photos so I wanted to go over some of the basics of how to use digital SLRs first. I focus on how to use the Auto Exposure Lock and Auto Focus Lock button. It is a really powerful little button that helps you compose a better shot and fix problem scenes. Check out greyscalegorilla for more tutorials. greyscalegorilla.com
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I got an idea of making a movie and I got it. So here it is.
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Does your photography display a personal style? Our regular columnist Alain Briot looks at this question in his latest essay, Why Personal Style is Important.
Alain has a new training DVD on the way and this brief essay is a teaser for that.
"Every time I go back to a module I had already seen, I learn additional things. I have never seen tutorials that have the excellent mix of what the features are,
how to use them, enough of the under-the-hood information
and concepts so that I can utilize the features creatively and efficiently,
and just enough humor to keep the motivation level high. Wow!"
This is an educational announcement, no inspiration here just wisdom. If you already have an automatic backup system in place skip this blog post and look at my gallery instead. If you don’t have an automatic backup system then keep reading.
I just purchased this one week ago after my 1TB version was all filled up. This won’t be a technical review of hardware… so if you’re looking for that look elsewhere.
You will suffer a hard drive failure at some point in your life, unless you’re ridiculously lucky. When it happens it will either be the biggest stress that you’ve faced in a long, long time or it will be a minor inconvenience… YOU get to decide what it will be RIGHT NOW!
So of all those I opt for option 3. External Harddrive. Is it as secure as other backup options? Well it does not always protect data in the case of rare events like war, floods, hurricanes, or Dick Cheney hunting accidents… things like that, but it does protect against a much more common form of data loss – unexpected and unannounced harddrive failure.
Backing up with a Mac is about the easiest thing you’ll do in your life. To start automatic backups all you do is open your system preferences, click on time machine, select the backup drive, turn the BIG switch from Off to On.
You’re finished.
You can tweak the settings if you want but the backup starts immediately, once backed up it continually updates the backup file. And it really does work like a time machine, you can open a folder and choose whatever version of a particular file you want to back up to within the last several days… distance of time in the past depends on the size of backup space available.
I like these external hardrives from G-Technology for a couple reasons. Not only do they look sleek they also run nearly silently, they are pretty durable (I haven’t broke one yet) and work right out of the box with Mac (and work well).
I’m going to be honest, I don’t know a ton about hardware… but this is my third or fourth drive from G-Tech and I’ve had no problems with any of them. They also get good reviews… if you find a better external harddrive I’d love to hear about it in the comments.
In the mean-time do yourself a favor and pick one up… here’s the one I bought (August 2010), you may need much less or much more space than me… look around and find a solution that fits you!
G-Technology 4TB G-Raid External Harddrive Array
Once the first backup of all your data finishes and you have two copies of everything you will sleep much better at night… trust me.