The Daily Posting Begins....

02-09-09 -  You gotta love a stormy day.  We've had many in a row now.  This is a picture of the guard gate in my community.  I tried to use Photoshop to 'transform' it, so it doesn't look crooked.  I'm so frustrated with my lack of Photoshop knowledge.  I know what my next college course will be!

So - on another note..... here are my equipment frustrations today..... Being a new Mac user (just got mine over the Christmas break).... I don't know 'the Mac way' of doing the tasks I used to do on my Dell.  It seems all of my pictures are losing their properties when I import them.  They all take on the same date and time.  They are also coming in at a much smaller size.  I take them at 15.1 megapixels, and they import at about 500KB.  FRUSTRATING.  

Also - being new to photography, I'm just starting to shoot in RAW.  iPhoto 6 isn't recognizing raw format, so I'm having to choose another program to download my RAW pictures.  iPhoto 6 should already have the RAW converter for a Canon 50-D.  Not sure what's going on there.  Also - I don't yet know what to do with the RAW photos.  I feel really photo-uneducated.  That oughtta be ok, because I AM photo uneducated.  :-)

My HP printer is printing my photos dark.  Grrrrrrrr.  Time to pull out my Canon i950 again.

I need a photography / Photoshop / Mac and peripherals mentor.   Waaaaaa.  :-)