Visiting Berlin and taking the opportunity to eat at some nice places. Aqua in Wolfsburg, Horvath and Cookies Cream in Berlin, and a fun Vietnamese place called Madame Ngo. These shots were done with a Nikon D500 and the 16-80 f2.8-4 DX lens.
Shooting some marketing shots for Philippe Restaurant for the upcoming festive season.
I gave a presentation at a Nikon sponsored event yesterday on how to transfer images from your Nikon DSLR to your smart device or laptop. Here’s the recording:
Photographs from a dinner celebrating chef Philippe Mouchel’s 25 years in Australia. Gallery here.
Images from the international cooking competition Bocuse d’Or. Full gallery here.
Something weird is going on with the Fuji XT-2 and the new v2 firmware. The new firmware allows you to capture raw files when using the film simulation bracket. Here are two samples of capturing RAW + Fine JPEG. The RAW rendering by Adobe Lightroom 2015.10 Camera Raw 9.10 looks completely different to the out of […]
Photos from six restaurants visited in St Moritz February 2017. Roberto’s | Veltliner Keller | Hotel Kronenhof – Kronenstübli | Badrutt’s Palace Patrizier Stuben | Ecco St Moritz (2*) | Restaurant dal Mulin
A selection of photos from Horvath (2*) Photos | Einsunternull Photos | Tim Raue (2*) Photos
Here’s a short summary of the eating experience from my trip. Some are Michelin rated, but all good! St Moritz: Roberto’s – Mid-range Italian food. Good wine list and range of Italian dishes. Veltliner Keller – homely Italian. It’s OK. Hotel Kronenhof – Kronenstübli – Cute place. Lovely decor. Creative food. Maybe worth a visit. Badrutt’s Palace […]
The whisky bar at the Waldhaus hotel in St Moritz is the largest in the world according to the Guiness Book of Records. Called the Devil’s Place, it houses over 2,500 whiskeys. When I visited there was a TV crew from Austrian doing a spot on the bar and I ended up in the segment.
Every Italian food lover has had spaghetti Bolognese. But to see what the benchmark is, the sources said the Pappagallo Restaurant in Bologna is the one to go to. The restaurant has been around since 1919 and is considered one of the most important restaurant in Bologna. Our lunch certainly lived up to the benchmark, The pasta […]
Modena, 20 February 2017. A lunch at Franceschetta 58, the second restaurant of Massimo Bottura in Modena. The restaurant seats about 32 people. It’s pretty casual with staff in runners. There are two tasting menus. Four courses at 48€ and six courses at 65€. The restaurant is located about a 20 minute walk from the edge of […]
Apart from the Winter Olympics, the pinnacle of the skiing calendar is the biennial world ski championships. In 2017, St Moritz is the host city, having done it four times before. I’ve shot ski racing before and this was going to be a treat. After two weeks below is a sample. More here.
Don’t bother with using an @EyefiCard #eyefimobi #eyefi with the #nikon #d500 – it’s incompatible. The card can’t send photos to your device and take pictures simultaneously. If you press the shutter during a transfer, the transfer will stop and you will need to power cycle the camera and restart the iOS App to resume […]
Almost 2 years to the day I used a Canon 7D Mk II at an A-League match and wrote a short blog about the image quality. While the 7D was good in the right conditions it really wasn’t good enough, even at ISO 250. Not long after this blog I sold the 7D. I just finished using […]
If you’re thinking about upgrading your Macbook Pro to the new ones that have the Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C ports, you’ll probably need these accessory cables to compensate for the deleted Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 ports. If Apple was a good corporate citizen and wanted to look after it’s loyal customers they should really have […]
Tested the Fuji XT-2 as a behind the goal remote camera. Triggered by a Yongnuo remote, it fires at 14 fps. Looks like it’s a pretty good solution. More testing to come. Here’s a sample animated set of images. And here’s the setup:
Some highlights from a friendly between Australian Soccerroos and Greece. More here and apimages.com
Finally got to shoot a match with the Australian Matildas soccer team. This was a friendly against New Zealand in the lead up to the Rio Olympic Games. Covered 2 matches when the team was in Melbourne. More photos here, and at apimages.com
I’ve been using Windows Media Center since 2006. I built my first Windows Media Center on an Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard with an Athlon CPU. That lasted until 2014 when I upgraded to a tiny Gigabyte BRIX Pro i5 4570R computer. However, with more HD free to air channels the little BRIX was getting a bit sluggish. With the advent […]
At what is probably the first international event where Nikon’s NPS and Canon’s CPS had the new flagship cameras available I couldn’t resist to take them both out for a spin. Readers may remember that I switched from Nikon to Canon about 3 years ago when I was let down by the Canon 1D Mk3’s autofocus […]
A few images from the grand final match where Melbourne City def Sydney FC 4-1. Melbourne won every match in its first season in the league and the grand final.
We’re well into week 2 of the Australian Open. Here are some photo highlights. More images here.
In Apple’s OSX operating system 10.11 El Capitan, the Photos app is set to automatically open when you insert a memory card. While you can change that on a per card basis, when you format the memory card the app will open again. There’s no setting in the app to stop this, but you can […]
