Canon Battery

Originally uploaded by Moose408

This may be common knowledge but I just figured it out today. The battery cover that comes with Canon batteries had a small hole in it that shows the underside of the battery. By rotating it, it can show blue for a charged battery and gray for a discharged battery. Who knew?

I’ve been using this cover for over 3 years and just now figured it out. It might have been in the instructions, but who reads the instructions for a battery?

Anyway I thought I would share in case there was someone else out there who hadn’t figured this out.

I participate in a weekly photo challenge on the site DPChallenge. Besides taking the photo, one of the challenges I often face is getting photo to be the right file size for submission (either 150K or 200K depending upon the compeition). Photoshop has a quality slider when using Save for Web, and a readout of the file size on the status bar that updates as I move the slider, but I’ve found it to not be entirely accurate. It can be a few K off, so even though it says my file will be 149K it might come out at 152K instead. I often have to save the file several times to get the file size correct.

Today I came across this great tip on Planet Photoshop blog.  It turns out that the option called Optimize to File Size which solves this problem for me.

I’m a happy man

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Alvin-1434

Originally uploaded by Moose408

Finally catching up on a backlog of photos that need processing. Got several up from the August Model Mixer. There were 3 models there and I improved somewhat on the lighting from the previous shoot. Still need to practice.

More Model Mixer photos at
http://www.craigcolvin.com/photos/model_mixer

Packing for Photoshop World in Las Vegas. Looking forward to 4 days of nothing but Photoshop (alright perhaps a little gambling as well). Hopefully I’ll learn a few tips that will help me get through the backlog of photos I’ve taken over the past month. I still have photos to process from the Tips From The Top Floor workshop, Hawaii, Camping in Northern CA, and another model shoot a few days ago.Â

Tiki

Originally uploaded by Moose408

Spent 10 days in Hawaii and had a great time. Still have a backlog of photos to work through, but I’ve posted a few on my Flickr account.