I've been interested in photography for about 40 years and bought my first SLR camera, a Canon FTQL in 1971.
Way back then it was mostly family & holiday pics with some work related ones when I travelled in New Zealand & overseas mostly to Geneva, Switzerland.
Then in 2004 I bought my first digital SLR, a Canon 10D. Of course it was now so much simpler, viewing pics as you took them & downloading to the PC.
No more expensive films & developing & getting prints.
During the latter part of 2007 I replaced the Canon 10D with Canon 1D Mark 3 professional body. And oh what a change this body brought to the way I thought about picture taking. There are so many customisable functions careful study of the manual became mandatory.
Mostly I use Google's Picasa as the workflow tool & Google's Picasaweb albumns for those pics I post to the web
But you can't do everything with Picasa so I have several other tools:
- ImageAlign Pro, principally for correcting perspective,
- NoiseNinja, for removing noise in high ISO images,
- Canon DPP, sometimes for workflow,
- Capture One Pro, for RAW file conversion to jpeg. I used to always capture images in RAW format. However for the type of work I do mostly, I have found that jpeg is quite good enough. It's horses for courses really.
- Irfanview, for various jobs.
I've now uploaded many folders of images to Picasaweb & perhaps you'd like to sample some of them here in a slideshow.
