One the ways that you can connect your iPhone or iPod Touch running our DSLR Camera Remote app to your computer is over an established Wi-Fi network. But what if you’re out on location and there is no established Wi-Fi network? For that scenario, you’ll want to create an Ad-Hoc Network like we did for our basketball video where we didn’t have an existing wi-fi connection.
Now for the most part, using an Ad-hoc network works just fine, but I found out the hard way during a press meeting, that if you have an iPhone 3Gs, connecting over an ad-hoc network requires an extra step in order for it to work. I haven’t researched this in-depth, but I’m guessing that somehow when you connect to an ad-hoc network that the iPhone is still on the 3G network and those two network connections interfere with each other somehow causing a less than reliable connection between the DSLR Camera Remote app on the iPhone and the server (this may not be confined to just our app, but I haven’t explored it any further than our app).
Here’s what I did to get around the connection problem.
I was just looking through some of the photos in the onOne Flickr Group and the onOne Exchange Flickr Group and wanted to remind everybody about using presets in PhotoTools. Presets are a great way for you to streamline your photo editing workflow and this video by senior product manager Dan Harlacher shows you how to use them and how you can share the ones you create on the onOne Exchange.
Senior product manager Dan Harlacher created a this video to show you how you can use PhotoFrame 4 Professional Edition to create a sloppy border for your photos. If you have PhotoFrame 4 and want to create your own custom sloppy border, this is a must-watch video.
The Santa Fe Workshops, a year-round educational center providing inspiration and education to photographers for years, has a series of workshops coming up centered around Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
Now, before you start saying “I don’t live in Santa Fe and can’t afford to fly/drive/walk there”, let me share with you that they are taking this workshop on the road. The workshop starts later this month with the first workshop in Boulder, CO then heading off to Australia then coming back to Los Angeles and up north to my hometown of Portland, Oregon before hitting the rest of the United States. For those of you in the United Kingdom, the workshop makes a stop in London as well. Here are the rest of the dates and information on pricing and registration.
When Union University, a four-year liberal arts university in Jackson, Tennessee, was struck by a tornado in February 2008, the campus sustained $40 million in damages to the residence life complexes and academic buildings. Fortunately, there were no human casualties but massive repairs were needed to restore the campus. In addition to structural repairs, Union University wanted to incorporate artistic elements to reaffirm the spirit of the university.
Jim Veneman, Director of Visual Communication, enlisted a group of student photographers to take pictures of downtown Jackson, with the intention of enlarging the images for display in the student center. The only issue was that the cameras these students had access to were older, six-megapixel, digital SLR’s. Veneman recognized that these cameras might not be able to produce the quality that would be expected in the large prints needed by the university. Updating equipment at the time was not an option.
When 
