Patrick Magee Online

Tornadoes!

Pat — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:48:56 +0000

Weather has been lousy in the Northwest this year but nothing like this is happening around here!

Color Calibration and the iMac

Pat — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:38:37 +0000

About a year ago I purchased a 24″ iMac. I have been using Lightroom2 and PhotoshopCS4 Extended to process my images after I calibrated the monitor using an Eye-One sensor. I have had some trouble with prints being made by others including Mpix gallery wraps, the results were always too dark. A little sleuthing led me to many, many forum postings stating the brightness of the iMac display could not be reduced enough for accurate calibration. Aha! That is exactly the problem! My solution? I’m doing all photo processing on my MacBook Pro which calibrated beautifully.

iPad App Wanted

Pat — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:34:53 +0000

I would love to see an app on the iPad which contains most of the functionality of Adobe Lightroom or Apple Aperture. I’m not needing to store a lot of images, I just want to be able to manipulate RAW images, save as jpegs, print them, download to a website, create a slide show, put them in documents, etc. It would also be great to be able to tether the iPad to your camera. Reviewing images on the iPad would be much easier than using the LCD. You could then just import the RAW images you want to work on to save memory. Now, does the iPad have a display with enough color depth to support this? I don’t know, but for quick and dirty edits it would be great.

Twitter

Pat — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:18:52 +0000

You can now follow me on Twitter. Be forewarned – my life is boring.

Apple Magic Mouse Review

Pat — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:54:50 +0000

I’ve been using the new Apple Magic Mouse with my iMac for several days now and really like the little rodent. I was concerned the shape would not be very ergonomic and my wrist would suffer. It’s been just the opposite. It is so much easier to use the Magic Mouse than the Mighty Mouse because I’m not always fighting to get the scroll ball movement to be recognized. The “clicking” feels more natural and there is no mistaking right vs. left clicking like I’ve had with the Mighty Mouse. The Magic Mouse also has a little more “heft” so it just feels more stable. Now for the negative – I haven’t been able to get it to pair with my Boot Camp WinXP.

A hint for those who have trouble getting the Magic Mouse to pair with their computer. Remove a battery from the Magic Mouse for a few seconds.

A New Experience

Pat — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:46:47 +0000

I did something last night I never dreamed I would be doing. Updating the software in two camera lenses! The Olympus EP-1 lenses contain software which helps with autofocus and other features and it needed to be updated. It was painless but it still felt strange to update software in a camera lens.

Birthday Party Photos

Pat — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:22:24 +0000

I’ve put some photos from Mom’s 80th Birthday Party on Flickr. A good time was had by all!

New Website Design

Pat — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:41:18 +0000

My webhost decided to close shop about a week ago without bothering to inform any of their customers. This led to a weekend of no email and no website. I was able to set up an account with a great new webhost, CanvasDreams.com, located in downtown Portland. I was able to recover control of my domain name on Monday but the website was basically lost. I had a backup from a few months ago but I decided I would just change directions and turn my website into a location to show my photographs as well as share a little bit about what is happening. That’s the reason this site is totally changed.

Just drag your pointing device over the photos in the header and click to go to the associated gallery.

If you came here looking for Ed Ecology information you’ll just have to go to the Google cache of the old website to see what you can find.

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