Technical

I travel a lot and I need a safe and reliable way to manage my images while on the road. I have employed a very simple back-up system that has worked for me since I started shooting digital with the invention of the Canon EOS 1"D" series camera. In my view the best system is one that is not only simple but also one that is redundant and safe. Here is what I do, step by step, to ensure my images are safe, easy to access and redundant!

The much anticipated release of Photoshop CS5 is here! I have been using both the Mac and the Windows version for a couple of months now. It is a great update in several ways and falls short of expectations in others. While the features that have been updated or changed significantly are numerous, I'm going to focus on the ones that have most impact to nature photographers.

If you're a photographer then you know colour is important. You want to see the same colours coming from your monitor as you saw when you shot the picture, and you also want to be sure that anyone else viewing your images sees the colours you intend for them to see.

You probably think, “That’s why we have ‘Colour Management’ – to sort all that out for us.” So you buy a colorimeter device, run the software that comes with it, and your system is all good, right? Not exactly. Particularly if you're a Windows user, that's not enough. In fact you may well see less accurate colours in a calibrated system than in an uncalibrated one, unless you're very careful.