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February 26, 2008
Caps Up-End Minnesota Wild, 4-1
It has been more than five years since Minnesota has played in Washington. In November of 2002, it was Minnesota on the winning end of that game. With the help of Brooks Laich's two goals, the Caps scored a big win against the Wild (4-1).
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 26: Brooks Laich of the Washington Capitals celebrates following his first of two goals against against goalie Niklas Backstrom of the Minnesota Wild during a NHL hockey game on February 26, 2008 at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC. (Photo by Allen Clark/OffWingPhoto.com)
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 26: Alexander Semin of the Washington Capitals goes up against Sean Hill and Eric Belanger of the Minnesota Wild during a NHL hockey game on February 26, 2008 at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC. (Photo by Allen Clark/OffWingPhoto.com)
None of the Cap's new players were suited up tonight against the Minnesota Wild, that will have to wait for later this week.
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Photos by Allen Clark/Offwingphoto.com
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 26: Goalie Niklas Backstrom of the Minnesota Wild stops Christopher Bourque of the Washington Capitals from scoring during a NHL hockey game on February 26, 2008 at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC. (Photo by Allen Clark/OffWingPhoto.com)
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 26: Branko Radivojevic of the Minnesota Wild scores against goalie Olie Kolzig of the Washington Capitals during a NHL hockey game on February 26, 2008 at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC. (Photo by Allen Clark/OffWingPhoto.com)
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Getty Images In My Rearview Window
This Monday the private equity firm of Hellman & Friedman bought Getty for a cool $2.4 billion. You can read more about the details as they were released yesterday from Hellman & Friedman.As a refugee from the heady Internet days and the Telecom mergers there are a few things I have learned after being bought, sold and merged more times than I can recall. First off, what this really means probably won't get sorted out until later this year or early in 2009. The deal isn't supposed to close until the second quarter of this year.
Secondly, don't ever buy the phrase, "we are different, a merger of equals." I laugh when I hear that one, there is always a buyer and the one being bought. In this case Hellman & Friedman bought Getty, we won't know what the "New Getty" looks like and how it operates.
Photographer and blogger John Harrington has been following Getty's moves and photo industry impact over the past couple of years and did some "crystal balling." Today he posted his insights which on the whole I agree with.
Hang on for another year of big changes in the business of photography.
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February 24, 2008
Little Big Men Play Ball
Here are some highlights from a game that my son played in yesterday. I didn't know the team names so we will keep it as Red vs. Yellow.
For the photographers, lighting is tough in the elementary gym that I shot in. I was shooting wide open at 2.8 with a shutter speed of 1/250. I then set the camera to variable ISO, the ISO varied from about 640 - 1600. Shooting in RAW also gave the ability to brighten it up some more in post processing.
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February 21, 2008
Test of offline blog editor
Something I have come across is a blog editor that would allow me more flexibility when writing for OffWing and OffWing Photo.
Let's See how this works. I probably should have looked for something like this a long time ago.
Do any of you have any experience using a blog editor? If so I would love any comments or recommendations you have. I work from a Mac, but share you PC editors too, it might help another reader.
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February 16, 2008
Photo Road Trip? - Learn How To Pack
If you are going by plane, train or automobile and bringing your photo gear take a couple of minutes to watch this video by Chase Jarvis. Chase is a world-class sports and lifestyle photographer.
In this video (run time of about 10 min) he walks through how he packs for a shoot and some additional tid-bits that he has learned.
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February 12, 2008
Apple Introduces Aperture 2.0
Aperture is Apple's pro photo management application that I use. Today Apple announced version 2.0 which I am excited to try out for myself.
Early reviews claim big improvements in speed which will make any photographer happy with.
For more information a great resource is the Aperture Users Professional Network (AUPN), they have a lot of great resources for photographers and illustrators that use Aperture.
AUPN will be a great place to check in over the next couple of weeks as more and more people work with the latest release and report their impressions.
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