I ordered a new camera tonight: a Canon EOS 7D. It's a great upgrade to my 50D (which I sold to Asher). It has an 18 MP sensor, 19 autofocus points, a 63 zone metering system, takes 1080P HD video, and shoots 8 frames per second. It's a great upgrade to my 50D that I …
Editing Photos
I've been on a rampage lately... organizing my photos. I've been taking photos with a digital SLR since college. I used to collect them in iPhoto, but I started using Adobe Lightroom last year. I never really had any sort of organization to my photos - I would just download them into Lightroom and occasionally …
iPhone OS 4 Preview: The Genius of Multitasking
Apple today unveiled 7 of 100 new features to be included with iPhone OS 4, the software upgrade that will be available for iPhone users this summer. The largest of those 7 features was multitasking. Apple has been blasted by the media, blogsphere, and competitors since the iPhone’s inception due to its lack of multitasking. …
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The Dark Side of Flickr
I started using Flickr this weekend. I was hoping that it could replace my gallery functionality and help show my photos to a larger audience. I downloaded a WordPress plugin to show my Flickr photos and everything seemed to be working fine. I uploaded a bunch of albums from my recent vacation (via Aperture) and …
Evolution of My Website – Switching to Word Press
I’ve been running this website in its current form (a blog) since 2004 when it was called JayZone (sounds really corny now that I reflect on it). I created its current layout and theme in 2008 and haven’t really changed it since. I’ve made small modifications here and there but I haven’t made any major …
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Aperture vs. Lightroom – An Easy Way to Confuse Myself
I take a lot of photos – or at least I want to take a lot of photos. I used to keep all of my photos in iPhoto, but once I started taking “professional” photos (with my SLR), I began to want to separate them from my “home” photos. I tried both Apple Aperture and Adobe …
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Welcome to Relatively Ambitious 2.0 (Beta)
Welcome to the next generation of my weblog! This site looks pretty different from the old version. It also has a new URL (jasontaylor.ath.cx). I refer to this as a brand new site because it is. The old site still exists at the old URL. The most major difference between this and the previous …
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Relatively Ambitious 