Cook’s Collaborative Edge

As an aspiring amateur for the past two years I have been digitizing old photographs 5000 color negatives of the Himalayas and 10,000 color negatives of Russia. I’ve also done some travel with a SD 14 in the Canon EOS Digital rebel that I actually like better in many ways than the quirk filled […]

The Photoshop Lightroom Adventure: Mastering Adobe’s Next-generation Tool for Digital Photographers is my absolute favorite of all the O’Reilly photo guides - although the Rocky Nook Press books are themselves outstanding. Probably a year and a half ago I requested a copy of the first Lightroom Adventure book. It was so extraordinarily […]

Being a considerable fan of O’Reilly photography books, when I saw the blurb for the new Canon EOS Digital Rebel Companion by Ben Long I requested a review copy. Having purchased a SIGMA SD 14 almost 2 years ago, and being less than happy with its operation, I decided to get […]

I found the close of Galbraith’s chapter quite eloquent. I invite readers to ponder it because anyone with an economic or professional stake in the internet and telecom will, I believe, be affected for the predatory state will kill new ideas and render most new business non viable over the long haul.
Naomi Klein’s Shock […]

My profession is to understand the direction of telecom and the Internet. I have come to believe that you cannot do this without crossing as many boundaries as possible. This means that one ultimately has to look at the economic system or systems within which telecom operates. I have been reading many […]

Nicholas Carr, in his new book The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google, describes the evolution of technology in the post Does IT Matter? world. In this slender book Carr shows how the evolution of Google style utility computing is now enabling both enterprises and ordinary citizens to rely on […]

To say a few more words about some of the remaining books in my stack, the Rocky Nook are clearly for professional photographers or wanna-be professional photographers. And again, they’re very good in that they’re not just cookbooks in how to use software. They’re cookbooks in how to use software in photographic processes, such as […]

The whole question of what a “keeper” is, is interesting. When you’ve come to have strong feeling for some of your pictures, you do want to use these tools to really get them in shape. “Keepers” are talked about in Briot’s Mastering Landscape Photography, the Luminous Landscape Essays.
I would say out of all these books, […]

The range of these books is quite interesting, in that for example, two that I’ve had for about a year,
Fine Art Printing for Photographers
Scanning Negatives and Slides.
Particularly now that I’ve started into my negatives, I’m disappointed and I’m not sure that I’ll ever manage to take the time […]

When I asked for and received review copies of Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, and the Rocky Nook Managing Your Photographic Workflow with Lightroom, those two books intrigued me so much as I flipped through them that I went out and bought a copy of Lightroom a few weeks ago. Now that I have started to use […]