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About Me Official Beta Tester Nature Photographer austinboothphoto27/Male/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 2 Years
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Cape Kiwanda 2

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I really like this shot and it has a lot of potential. I really like the warm colors on the rocks and the misty look of the water flow...

by =drewyboy

I really like this shot Drew. That sky is spectacular and there is an interesting foreground. The exposure looks great on the left ho...

10,000 page views and other updates.

Journal Entry: Thu Sep 10, 2009, 9:40 PM
Well it finally happened, I finally got 10,000 page views. It actually happened about a week ago and I got to see it at 9,999 but I've been too busy to write a journal about it until now. It took a little over 2 years her on deviantART to get to that milestone. Its interesting looking back on my journal history as my 5000 page views was almost exactly a year ago on Sept 8th, 2008 so I'm averaging about 5000 a year. Maybe this year I'll step it up a little more.

Anyway lets move on...so a couple weeks ago I got a new computer for editing my photos. Until now I've been using my 2 year old laptop for my photo editing and while it works fine for the most part it is a little slow when working with panoramas stitched together from multiple images in photoshop. Those panorama files are often 20-40 megapixels after stitching all the files together. First off the stitching part takes quite a while to complete on my laptop and simple adjustments to the completed files are slow as well. So I built myself a new desktop computer from parts because its cheaper that way and really not too hard. All in all it cost me about $350 for a computer which would have been about $600 from the major computer manufacturers. This is the first computer I've built in about 10 years so I was a little nervous. Fortunately everything works great and it started right up the first time I turned it on(It's easy to forget to plug something in). The new computer processes files in photoshop way faster than the old one so I am pretty happy with it. For all the nerds out there its an Athlon II X2 2.8Ghz(I went with a dual-core because photo shop still can't utilize tri or quad core processors so they would be a waste of money for me), Radeon HD 4200 onboard video (will eventually upgrade to a better video card but again photoshop is just beginning to utilize video cards) and 4GB DDR2 RAM (will upgrade to 8GB very soon).

Now I am going to sell my laptop to my Aunt who was looking for a laptop and I'm going to get myself one of those nifty little netbooks so I have something a little more convenient and lightweight for traveling. So I will have a desktop with my 22" monitor as my main photo editing rig and a little ultra portable computer for offloading and previewing photos while traveling. Ideally I will eventually stock up enough memory cards so that I can leave images on them for the duration of a long trip so they are on cards and a hard drive as backup until I get home and can back them up there and clear my memory cards.

In other news I'm very excited about the new Canon 7D which was announced on the 1st. I would get the 5D Mark II if I could afford it but that won't happen any time soon. The 7D is a little more obtainable for me and a pretty sweet camera. 18 Megapixels, 8FPS Continuous Shooting, HD Video(Hey I think it would be fun to play with), A new AF system, New metering system, +/- 5 stops exposure compensation and +/- 3 stops Auto bracketing are the features I am most excited about. I was a little skeptical about 18 megapixels on an APS-C camera at first but it appears they have managed to actually improve ISO performance over the 40D and 50D and offer up to 6400(although I would probably never go above 1600 or 3200 and only if absolutely necessary).

I'm also excited about going to Arizona in a week. It isn't a photo trip though, the reason we are going is to visit my girlfriend's grandma. However, we are going to go to Sedona for a day which is an area famous for the red rock cliffs so I am really looking forward to that. I'm not going to get my hopes up though because it is just a day and who knows if the weather will cooperate or if I will get anything really great but we will see. Ok I think thats about it and this journal is getting way too long so on to the features.



  • Mood: Big Grin
  • Listening to: Indie rock on Pandora
  • Drinking: IPA

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  • Current Residence: Portland, Oregon
  • Interests: Photography, Art, Skateboarding, Music, Good beer
  • Favourite band or musician: Too many
  • Favourite genre of music: Just about all of it
  • Operating System: Vista
  • Tools of the Trade: Canon EOS 40D, Canon 10-22mm f3.5-4.5, Tamron 17-50 f2.8, Canon 100-400 f4.0-5.6 IS

Comments


:iconkayla1495:
Your gallery looks amazing!
:iconmeowgli:
Thanks very much for the watch!
:iconlethart:
nice gallery, man :)

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:iconlethart:
welcome

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:iconphotographybydani:
Thank you very much for the watch and the fav :heart:

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