Tag: Sin City

Through The Lens Magazine

Lizz Ford and yours truly are featured in the July edition of Through The Lens Magazine. I’ve shot Lizz, a.k.a. @CatsEyeLiz, a number of times, and she is a dynamite model. This edition features several more Las Vegas models and photographers. You can grab a printed copy or PDF electronic copy at the following link: https://www.blurb.com/b/10787356-through-the-lens-volume-3-issue-7

Here’s one of the pages from the magazine shoot.

Lizz Ford photo by VegasCameraGuy

Here’s one of my favorite shots of Lizz taken at the Carroll Shelby Museum with a Ford GT40 (another HOT model)!

Lizz Ford photo by @vegascameraguy

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Always Use Protection

“That’s disgusting,” you’d reply. “I know how to protect it.” But, Mom was usually right, and then came that day when you whipped it out and learned your lesson. That trip to the clinic was embarrassing, and everyone laughed at you for not having protected your most valuable property.

Put a UV filter on all your expensive lenses to protect the front element. Oh, you thought I was talking about something else? Get your mind out of the gutter. I should have known seeing you in that raincoat with the bag of candy in the pocket.

Nowadays, most decent cameras are weather-resistant but not waterproof. Still, do you really want to take a six thousand dollar camera and lens and have someone spray you with a hose to prove it?

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Progress is Painful

As someone who’s been a geek most of his life, the last few days have been a stressful period. As a photographer, I store my images on a network-attached storage drive or NAS drive with RAID 1 hard disks.

My previous QNAP TS-420 has been running 24×7 for five years now and performed flawlessly but is starting to get a little long in the tooth in electronic years. Like a dog who ages seven years for every actual year, electronics are probably worse.

Initially, my old NAS just stored primarily financial documents which are not much of a burden on the drive. Photo images are getting larger with every new release of a camera. My RAW images have grown from 20 MB to 50 MB in size. Even JPG’s are now approaching 20 MB in size.

The TS-420 has worked well storing electronic images but has to work extra hard to read and write the huge RAW files. LightRoom would pause for a few seconds every time it had to deal with one of the files.

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