Ok so I have the iPad now.

What a FANTASTIC way to show images!

The screen is amazing and the device is almost universally understood!

I have to admit that one of the other things that I am loving about the iPad is Angry Birds in HD...I never thought that green pigs with moustaches would look so good :)

I have to say that it was a breeze to set up and I can also have my .doc and .ppt documents on there and not carry around 99 bits of paper that will get crumpled and maybe lost!

It may be the Mc Donalds tag line but "I'm Lovin' It!"

Some good news

From another blog...Some good news for the photographers who have iPads.

piRAWnha is the first RAW image developer for the iPad. In piRAWnha, the raw data can be edited and once the settings have been optimized, a high‐quality JPEG image file can be exported to the Photo Library. Currently, piRAWnha supports raw images transferred to the iPad with the Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit. piRAWnha works with all raw files supported by Apple.
Cypress Innovations launches piRAWnha, the first RAW image developer for iPad
Develop, adjust and perfect raw images with piRAWnha
SAN FRANCISCO— December 20, 2010 – Cypress Innovations
There is a new app for photographers eager to develop and process raw images on an iPad. The iPad allows users to view the JPEG thumbnail image embedded in the raw image file, but cannot process the raw data itself. To take advantage of this capability, Cypress Innovations has launched piRAWnha, the only app to enable raw processing on the iPad.
Currently, piRAWnha supports raw images transferred to the iPad with the Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit.
In piRAWnha, the raw data can be edited and once the settings have been optimized, a high‐quality JPEG image file can be exported to the Photo Library.
piRAWnha features both raw developing and post‐processing options, including:
‐Exposure compensation
‐White balance correction (automatic settings and manual)
‐Highlight recovery
‐Denoise operations
‐Gamma correction
‐Saturation‐hue‐brightness adjustment
‐High‐quality contrast adjustment
‐Sharpening
‐Updated image histogram (red‐green‐blue) while editing
Raw images can be exported to the iPad’s Photo Library individually or as a batch. piRAWnha can also run in the background, so while it works to export the images, other apps can be used on the iPad. piRAWnha works with all raw files supported by Apple (a complete list of cameras is here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3825)
piRAWnha, the first raw image developer for iPad, is a true companion for the serious photographer.


About Cypress Innovations
Cypress Innovations is a creative software development group currently focused on iPhone and iPad apps for photography, fitness and education.


Here is the link to the blog I got the good news from.

Sorry if this is old news but Hey at least you have been reminded that Apple love Photographers!

First day back

OMG! I was in bed by 9.45pm last night I was just that tired!

Normally up till like midnight - 1am but I was just beat last night.

Add a large helping of the same work today and I think that I will be sleepwalking through the 1st day back at Uni on Thursday.

Still UCAS have accepted my application now that I have jumped through their hoops and filled out endless forms. With the rise in tuition fees set to kick in next academic year, it seems that loads of students are going to skip their gap year and try and get in to Uni earlier to avoid the price hike!

I hope that I am not nudged out of a place on the BA top up due to the increase in numbers!

Going back to the work thing...One of my lecturers ( A jobing photographer who has a penchant for food photography his site is here! ) has a job shooting for Unilever...The work I am doing at the moment is putting together packs for...Unilever. Some lovely food photography on the packs....I must find out who took the shots! :P :)

Matting pictures

This is the american term for what we would call mounting.

http://www.matshop.ca/matomatic/

Allows you to test the matt before you cut a thing!

Anyone have a preferance on mount colour?? I was thinking that Black generally goes with anything so I might stick to the black and play it safe?

I hope that my parcel from Silverprint arrives soon or all my mounting will be left without the nice sleaves that they have charged me an arm and a leg for!

One thing that I did notice whilst on the silverprint site was that they didn't take postage costs into account when working out your order value...Minimum order from them is £25 yet you have to spend that on goods alone not goods plus postage! Seems a tad unfair that I have to spend £35 including postage when the goods I wanted came to £23 (ish) only to have them ignore the £5 (ish) that I am having to pay them in postage.

Oh well as the French say C'est la vie!