David I. Gross

Author: David Gross

  • DigitalOcean How-To…

    Well, I’m trying out DigitalOcean.com to see what it’s like firing up my own little servers, instead of paying extra for a managed VPS that isn’t as fast as I’d like. So far, there is a big learning curve. Droplets and snapshots aren’t as user-friend as I’d like.   DigitalOcean Notes   To Create a New…

  • Copyright Your Work

    Copyright Your Work

    It’s the end of the year, and that means it’s time to copyright your photography. Every time I do this, I forget how it is done, and I have to look it up. Here is what I did this year. PhotoShelter has a good guide on how to use the US Copyright Office’s online “ECO” system: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2009/05/electronic-copyright-registrat/…

  • Guest Post at AnscaMobile.com: If I Were a Rich Man

    Here’s my guest blog post at Ansca Mobile’s Corona SDK blog: I am a reluctant member of the app-making business, a recovering programmer/designer who has fallen off the wagon. This matters, because when I chose to base my ebook platform on Corona SDK, I chose it to minimize the programming involved. See, if I were…

  • Scanning Contact Sheets from Negatives

    Finally! I’ve been wishing I could scan my sheets of negatives into high-quality contact sheets. Sure, with a $1000+ scanner you can do it…but that never seemed worth it. Well, I now have a $170 Epson V600, and “The Light Panel” by Porta-Trace. Lay one on the other, and you can make a fantastic —…

  • The iPad Book Market

    Wondering whether there is a market for iPad books? Well, there sure are a lot of iPads out there, bought by people with extra money to spend, who are always looking for another $5 treat. Rik Myslewski in San Francisco just wrote an article about predicted iPad sales, which I found here. With almost 30 million…

  • Kadir van Lohuizen

    If you haven’t seen Dutch photographer Kadir van Lohuizen’s new project, “ViaPanam”, you should. It is the beginning of new style of photojournalism, documentary photography, and the first experiment I’m aware of that exploits the abilities of the iPad as the new medium for photojournalism. In brief, he has a self-updating iPad app that follows…

  • Frustrations with the Olympus E-P2

    On the one hand, I’m enjoying the Olympus E-P2. The image quality is beautiful; it is like using a grainer film than my EOS 5D. Just as one can choose Tri-X over TMAX, I sometimes want to use the E-P2 instead of the 5D to get that grain. However, I’m feeling more and more frustrated…

  • Extra Grain with Leica Lenses on an Olympus E-P2

    I’m using my Leica M lenses on my new Olympus E-P2, and I’ve discovered they are generating a lot more “grain” than the m-Zukio 17mm lens that came with the camera. I’ve seen it in all conditions, with different lenses (Leica and Hexanon). While the image is nice and sharp, with some good detail, you…

  • Scoop

    After spending two nights with the young men at the Pine Grove Conservation Camp, a training and rehabilitation institution of the California Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), I received this message from the press liaison: “The main guy who approved your stay at Pine Grove told me that in his 34 years in the agency,…

  • Rules, rules, rules?

    The Station Fire was very, very frustrating. The public information officers (PIOs) were nice, helpful, all-around good people. They let me stay at the fire camp, they geared me up, and then they made sure I wouldn’t get near anything exciting. Especially after I, and an Aussie camera team, managed to shadow a Hotshot crew…