Michael Kratz

I shoot photos on my Nikon D50 camera in the Adobe RGB colour space. This colour space has a wider gamut than sRGB, which is what all Digital cameras tend to default to these days. Using Adobe RGB allows my camera to record more colour than it ordinarily would if I were using sRGB.

The only annoying issue with using Adobe RGB, is that anyone looking at or using my photos in a non-colour space aware browser, program or printer will see a ‘pastey’, flat photo, becuase these ‘dumb’ programs simply assume that the image is sRGB. So whenever I upload photos to the web or send them off to other people, I need to convert them to sRGB. Read more

Are you in Sydney on Australia Day? If so, be outside! It’s highly likely you’ll get your photo taken for Google Maps!

Google Australia has organised to have an aircraft fly around part of Sydney during Australia day, taking aerial photographs of people enjoying the day.

You can find out more information, including, when the aircraft is likely to be in your area, on the information page on the Google website. Check it out here

In an attempt to make this WordPress template a little less ‘default’ (not that it isn’t good, I just wanted to make it ‘different’), I’ve decided to replace the default orange swirly glassy effect image with some photos of my own.

These rotate randomly using a PHP image rotator (click here if you want it). So you might see the same image twice, or more. There are about 30 images. Read more