Mt Lowry Challenge 2010 – Mountain running photography

Last weekend I headed out into the rain and photographed the Mt Lowry Challenge 2010, a mountain running race held in Eastbourne near Wellington each year. It’s a choice of a 9km race which seems to be contested by some ridiculously quick people or the ‘extreme’ event, a 22km race that starts up the same hellish climb before splitting off along a different section of the ridge track. It was a fun...

HDR photography round 2

I’ve been getting into this HDR photography thing over the last couple of days. I read an article that gave really good information on the setting to use when creating HDR composite shots and it also mentioned that there’s no reason why HDR composites can’t be made from a single RAW image. If you think about it that’s 100% correct too because all you need to do is create the bracketed...

Photographic Event-a-licious

Over the past few weeks I’ve been out and about, camera in hand, photographing sports events that have been held in and around Wellington. For now the photos are up on my Flickr page – just use the links below …     As I increase the collection of images that I think are worthy of sharing I’ll be posting updates all over the web (haha). Be sure to follow me on twitter,...

Jack Bauer takes victory in well under 24 hours

Yes, I’m a 24 fan. Today was awful … well, awful in the sense that it was windy, raining, comparatively cold and not the best conditions for cycling. However, stage 5 of the Trust House Cycle Classic was scheduled for January 31st 2010 around the streets of Wellington and it almost went ahead as planned. The original schedule was to be a 60 minute race around a closed criterium circuit + a 3 lap...

Adobe Lightroom – Transferring DNG files to another computer

This post assumes you are shooting RAW and using Lightroom 2 Both iMac machines at my place are used with Adobe Lightroom for photographic processing. Today I needed to transfer some photos from one machine to the other but Lightroom wouldn’t transfer the develop settings, only the files themselves. Here’s how to transfer the develop settings too. By default Adobe Lightroom is configured to only store...