Recent content by Peter Blake

Following on from my catastrophic cockup with an errant external drive, who is using 'cloud storage' as a secondary or perhaps even tertiary storage location? What's good/ overpriced/ crap? Currently looking at 1.5Tb to stash somewhere but inevitably this will grow. At the moment the files are...

Maybe a solution is in sight…..I had already downloaded Carbon Copy Cloner and purchased brand new drive, but until today I hadn't persuaded the errant disk to mount. I tried one of these 'no recovery no fee' recovery solutions (EaseUS) and lo and behold the naughty external drive decides to...

Recently my one and only external drive developed a problem having become 'read only'. This drive holds my Aperture Library and my Time Machine backups. I can't even mount the disk, to be able to use Carbon Copy Cloner with a new external drive. The Disk Utility message at the base of my...

if I am currently with Photoshelter, but wish to move to SmugMug, how do I go about 'moving' the domain name to point to the SmugMug site? I acquired the domain through Dreamhost, and still use their services.

Testing a couple of stripboxes. Assembly time is still a pain. Build it up, take it down. Rinse and repeat, until confident/competent!

At the end of last month, Japan hosted the World Kendo Championships, at the famous Nippon Budokan in Tokyo. I was fortunate to be able to shoot some of the practice sessions, with Team GB, amongst others.

Teiji is a homeless guy whose abode I discovered purely by accident one day. He lives under a bridge on the outskirts of Tokyo. I shot a couple of pix on my phone with him, always returning and giving him prints. This time I used the D700 and 24mm lens….I had arrived while he was having a kip so...

What's the reason for your swing, Hamish?

I have an upcoming job where I need to photograph the interior of a building but there will be people in the shot. Apparently it's lit by fluorescent lights. I do have the opportunity to check it out prior to the shooting date. What I am thinking is, test shoot for the actual colour on the...

burn the face or dodge the hands and arms?

….having had their lenses spirited away to the land of Sony. what shall we do with them? I always liked the whole concept of the G system, and must admit that in my brief dealings with it, never had these supposed focusing problems, even with the 90mm. I enjoyed my little adventure with the...

although sometimes I think it could be any old night of the week in parts of this fair town

I went with the XP2 in the end. Cheers

An event I covered the other day. One body for digital with flash, and my handy sized Canonet QL-17L loaded with XP2. It draws a lot more attention and passing conversation than the D700 I can tell you. Was a bit blown away when it came to payment for the 2 rolls, devved, scanned (at 200dpi...

I primarily shot these exhibitions for the people not the products. if they had a runway show I would have shot that but nothing of the kind was present. With the two 'clones' from behind, I can't decide which is the better shot….favouring the second one? This show I took two prime lenses only...