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

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 [...]

Early start to the day thanks to Tree Logic who needed a shot for their latest newsletter. I was surprised at the amount of activity down by the river this morning. The “carnies” were setting up the Moomba stuff and the Melbourne council workers had the brooms out sweeping the gravel. Very pleasant start to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Russell from Australian Interactive Multimedia Pty Ltd has invited all to view special pricing on all Genuine Epson Wideformat cartridges. Click here to see their pricing.

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 [...]

I was approached by this suit at The Esplanade today who reckons he can supply Ultrachome K3 for my Epson 4800 Pro at a very cheap rate. Nearly $100 off retail. Charlie Hu of infoMedia Australia (no site) said he will email me the price list tomorrow. Don’t hold your breath but if he does [...]

How long has this been going on? In order to attach an image of a suitable size to an email simply attach original then select “Medium” from the drop down bottom right. The image is re-sized automatically and re-attached. I had no idea Apple Mail could do that.

I was alerted to the fact that it is possible to open an image in Photoshop from within the Aperture application. Simply hit Shift/Apple/O. This is a shortcut for “edit in external application” and once Photoshop is selected in Aperture prefs you are away. Thanks to S. Gery, a relative newcommer to digital imaging.