Simon Ridgway Photography

As a Mac user, I’m sure I’m not alone in wishing that Apple would design a smaller, more portable laptop (call it a netbook if you like) for working on the go. Something that would fit in a camera bag and be robust and easy to just whip out and quickly get online or check images out in the field.

In the movie world, the term “post-production” is used to describe all the work that goes into turning the raw footage into the finished film that you see in the cinema. Its the same in the world of professional photography.

“We need the pictures at 300dpi.” This is the standard request from clients, but it doesn’t actually mean anything.

When you open an image file on your computer, how do you know that the colours that your monitor are displaying are the same as the colours were in real life?

I was feeling all pleased with myself when I finally got that wayward hard drive to appear on the desktop and started copying off all the pictures. Well it crashed half way through and that was it – another day of fiddling and I finally gave up.
I had to go and retrieve all my backup [...]

So I finally sat down in front of my Mac to put some pictures in the galleries on this site and my “Western Digital My Book Studio Edition 1TB external hard drive” (catchy name) decided it wasn’t in the mood to show me any of my pictures. Now, this is not a disaster, since I [...]

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