Epic Edits Weblog

Links this week include an interview with Troy Paiva, a discussion on light, politics, wedding photography, conference photography, web optimization, super-macro techniques, and travel photography.

I’ve got an enlarger and a whole mess of film, but I’m missing many of the other items necessary to make a print. Want to help?

A RAID tower is a collection of two or more internal hard drives housed in a box that contains special RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Independent Disks) hardware/software, and connects to your computer as if it were a single external hard drive. These towers can be utilized as a working drive or a backup drive, depending on your needs. In either case, the tower is designed to protect your data from hard drive failures (typically one disk can fail and you’ll still be able to recover your data).

I mentioned a while back that Jim Goldstein was running a project that required participants to acquire artwork from other photographers. The deadline is today (November 2, 2008), and I’ve managed to pick up a few pieces for this project. Not only did I acquire a few new pieces of art, I also found a long-term project for myself. In the course of this project, I determined that I’d like to start a collection of prints from photographers I associate with. For this collection, I’ll be gathering only black & white prints (preferably signed by the artist), all framed and matted in a similar fashion. So here are the items I’ve acquired for Jim’s project…

54 selected photos from the Epic Edits PhotoDump Flickr pool. This week there are 6 new members, no new discussions, and 258 new photos in the group.

Links this week include a photo contest, off-camera lighting, filters, CS4 review, night portraits, a book review, star trails, and smoke abstracts.

Everybody says that backups are important, but not everybody has lived through the crisis of losing photos. Have you?

An external hard drive is simply an internal drive that is housed in some type of case and connected to your computer via external data cables. Some external drives require auxiliary power, while others are powered by the data connection (such as some compact USB 2.0 drives). External drives serve as good backup hardware because of their storage capabilities and portability.

66 selected photos from the Epic Edits PhotoDump Flickr pool. This week there are 8 new members, no new discussions, and 330 new photos in the group.

Links this week include a special presentation on Zoriah (war photographer), Photoshop actions, buying cameras, portrait tips, book reviews, noise removal, HDR photography, and safaris.