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August 11, 2008 | Tips & Tech Support, News

What is an RSS Feed?

Tired of visiting CaptureIntegration.com to see if there is new news, tips, tricks, or special promotions? We want you up-to-date, but we want it to take as little as your time as possible. That’s why we send out a newsletter every month or two (sign up for our newsletter).

But why wait for the newsletter to see whats new? By subscribing to our RSS feed you will receive updates to our news/tips in your inbox in a seperate folder. It’s unobtrusive, fast, and easy.

Subscribing to our RSS Feed

1. Launch Mail

2. Select [File > Add RSS Feeds… ]

3. Specify the custom feed URL as “http://captureintegration.com/feed” and click [Add]

That’s it!  Anytime we publish or update a new article you’ll receive a notice in Mail. Just imagine, the next time there is an important software update you’ll be the first to know what it’s all about.

Doug

Brushing up on my dive skills

August 11, 2008 | Personal Blogs, Chris

It’s been over a year since I’ve been diving and I needed to refresh my dive skills. Luckily several of my friends are divers, so we went to an old rock quarry in White, Georgia. Quarries quarries are good for learning skills, but that is about all. They are cold and mirky, but are usually fresh water. Here is a picture of my dive buddy Bryan Vargo.

Iron Creek Photography - Don Libby’s images and inspirations

August 7, 2008 | Guest Writers

I primarily do landscape images; notice I said images instead of photography. I want to present what I felt more that what I saw at the time the photography was taken.  It is my firm belief that just about anyone can take a photograph be it a tree or rock or even a fig and it will come out looking like the object what was taken.  In other words here’s the tree or meadow I saw isn’t it nice?  What I want to convey is the emotion, the emotion of what made me capture the image as well as instill a level of emotion into the viewer.  I heard once that good photography incites emotion; that emotion can range from disgust to wonderment.  I hope my landscape invokes more of the wonderment side of the scale.

It takes a lot for me to take an image.  In some cultures it was once thought that you capture the soul of a person when you take their photograph; in some ways I feel the same way when I do my landscape images.  Standing at the edge of a canyon or in a meadow seeing what very few people have the privilege to see and experience is to me very moving experience.  What I attempt to do when I capture the image is not only take a decent photograph but know what I want to do with it once I have it.  Bottom line for me is that I want to pass on the feeling that I experienced standing there.  I want the viewer to feel the soul of image not just see yet another landscape.  I want the image to speak out and in some cases shout out to them to the point where the viewer wants to see the location for themselves and experience it first hand.   I have a small blog connected to our website and have had many visitors comment that while they may never been in the position to visit the Southwest or for that matter anywhere we photograph, they nevertheless thank us for sharing the beauty and experience.  I’ve had people see finished work that hangs in a local gallery at home state that our landscape images invoke emotions and memories that they had long lost.  That’s what it’s all about.  I consider myself an artist first and photographer a close second.

More images and workflow after the jump.

Continue reading Iron Creek Photography - Don Libby’s images and inspirations…

Cool iPhone App - Virtual Spirit Level

August 5, 2008 | Tips & Tech Support, Lance, Personal Blogs

I was surfing the iPhone application store the other day and came across this cool useful application. It uses the accelerometer sensor that is built into the iPhone and converts the data to be used as a spirit level. There is standard screen that has a regular level tool, then one that does X/Y.

I like it and it is handy when I am trying to see if a camera/digital back is level prior to taking a shot and looking at it on screen. It also has been accurate enough for my needs.

The reviews have been mixed on the store regarding this application because there is a similar application available for free vs $.99 in the iPhone development kit SDK. Honestly I do not have the time to play around with the SDK so it was worth the buck.

Direct link to the iTunes store for Level.

Here are a few images of the application: