Big Trousers, Web, Design, Photography and new media.

I received an email from a happy client today. Steve lives in Palm Springs and saw my landscape images online after spotting my website. After some discussion he ordered a print and had it delivered with the intention of getting a custom frame. Good to see it framed and up on the wall. Thanks for [...]

Having read about the details regarding Apple Final Cut Studio 2 and looking at some of the video online I have to say it was a surprise that this suite has moved so quickly to embrace new controls and new formats. The impressive videos including the Cohen brothers talk about “Color” shows the new color [...]

I just wanted to see if my little Ava would fit on the page here. Not quite.

If you are not sure what that all means then you are possibly not alone. Virb is the site having just come out of beta that looks to be the new social network site of the age. It is well built and beautiful to look at, unlike MySpace which is as ugly as hell. This [...]

Gretag Macbeth have been leaders in the field of monitor calibrators for some time, so it was interesting to see their latest affordable calibration tool in action. The Gretag Macbeth huey is an entry level device for those who need to be color accurate for photography, video, web design or graphic design. At $240 it [...]

I went on a little river cruise down the Maribyrnong last night. Thanks to the guys at Maribyrnong River Cruises who looked after the navigation through the Port of Melbourne. Tough job holding still at 30th sec in the dark but the Canon 5D is a dream to shoot with. Next time we may try [...]

Get over to HMC and check out the work of a mate of mine, Helen from Limelight. As part of the Art in Public Places run by Hobson’s Bay City Council, Helen has created more of her retro pin-ups to be exhibited. They’re going to be displayed during the Williamstown festival at the Iceberg bar, [...]

Trish has had her portrait done in the studio at Big Trousers in a bit of a rush to cope with media inquiries regarding her new role as President of The Greater Western Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Trish and her partner Paul run “The Tint Shop” in West Melbourne and was elected president recently [...]

Acording to Appleinsider an Apple sub-notebook may be coming soon. A tiny sub-notebook on its way from Apple Inc. is expected to re-establish the Mac maker as a leader in the field of compact computing while drawing parallels to the legendary PowerBook 2400 along the way. This is interesting news as is fills the gap [...]

So the final is complete of the 3D view of the Big Trousers office in Footscray. We hope to get this file uploaded to Google Earth but it may be a little too intricate. In the meantime to see the 3D image make sure you have the latest version of Google Earth and download our [...]

Well this is the first image in location with some detail. The next step is to work on optimized png images for the surface detail. This file can be downloaded and viewed in 3D now by downloading the image file and locater for Google Earth by clicking here. UPDATE: If you downloaded the first file, [...]

Work has been progressing on a few of our own 3D uploads for the recently released version of Google Earth that allows users to upload there own files for all users online to see. A free version of SketchUp allows one to “build” your own place then upload the file to Googles’ server. In the [...]

With most inkjet printers used by photographers it has been difficult to calculate the cost of ink per photograph. An information panel in the Epson printer utility keeps track of the total ink use per color for each of the last 10 prints. This is handy when a large print job comes up and you [...]

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It seems that the update to OS 10.4.8 has rendered EOS Capture useless. That is the one essential piece of Canon software I need, as do others. I use an Automater script to have Capture send files to Aperture. I can shoot to the card and download still but for studio portraits where the client [...]