You are out in the field. After taking a photo, you look at your camera’s back screen. This brings a smile to your face — it looks pretty great. At home, however, it’s a different story. When you go to process it on your home computer, the same photo looks
Monitor light bars have undoubtedly increased my productivity while reducing eye strain. Quntis recently sent me their RGB Pro+ Monitor Light Bar for review, and I was interested because it offered some features not seen on my current bar. Quntis RGB Pro+ Monitor Light Bar — Size matters This is
If you work long hours in front of a monitor, eyestrain is a real issue. I never thought much about a monitor light bar before, mainly because my two monitors kick out a lot of brightness and I have a wonderful desk lamp. However, I was sent a BenQ ScreenBar
You type word prompts into a field. A computer spits out an AI-generated image. Sorry, that’s not a photo, and you’re not a photographer. Call it something else. It’s an image, a picture, AI-generated art or a computer doodle. It doesn’t matter. Just don’t call it a photo. Why ain’t
Did you know that Lightroom might be eating up your computer’s hard drive space, without your knowledge? I didn’t. I kept wondering why my computer hard drive was always full. Eventually I stumbled onto Lightroom being the culprit. Lightroom works by uploading the photos that you import to your Adobe
It can be confusing to choose the perfect SSD (solid-state drive) for your needs. Technology changes rapidly and new types of drives emerge with different qualities, price points and trade-offs. I’m here to help demystify SSDs so you can make an informed decision to best protect your precious content, meet
Today’s hard drive market offers numerous options, so it can be confusing to ensure you’re making the best decision to meet your needs. There are several factors to consider, including performance and price. However, your first action should be to decide between a traditional hard disk drive (HDD) or a
When working on a complicated stitching job such as a Milky Way panorama, it’s easy for me to lose track of time. I had a conversation with a buddy of mine that reminded me that computers can hurt you. Or rather, you can hurt yourself at your computer. Here’s an
Not long ago, I wrote about running out of SSD storage and how I added more for under $125. After all, you can never have too much storage, right? Especially fast storage. It worked great at first, then began to go south. This article continues my quest to add blazing fast
If you’re like me, you have photos. Lots of photos. And you need storage. Lots of storage. Running out of SSD storage I have a 500MB SSD in my iMac. I was using this to process photos, then shuttle them over to an external SATA drive — a spinning drive that
It’s rare that we get announcements at the same time which will appease almost everyone interested in tech. This week, Microsoft announced the new Surface Studio and Apple announced the latest iteration of the MacBook Pro. These two powerful computers both offer features of particular note to photographers; but are they
I plugged in my first-ever Drobo unit a few weeks ago. I realized my computer was out of hard drive space yet again and it just made sense to store my photography working files on the Drobo 5D. The transition to the Drobo was seamless. Now that I have been up
