I came to an idea that letter elements of the logo should resemble different kinds of close up photography subjects – living creatures, and the logo as a whole to be of irregular shape or, better word, asymmetrical.
Letters of the word Macro (Russian equivalent: Макро) were drafted as: a snail, a dew droplet on a grass, a male beetle antenna, Polytrichum common moss spore holder, and a sundew leaf. Making the final draft, I’ve rejected sundew leaf for its complexity (hence, low scalability) and just put a general floral pattern. The word “class” (Russian equivalent: класс) is rendered in a school handwriting style, since our Macroclass workshops are both creative and educative.
How to sync your Mac desktop via iCloud
I’m pretty sure you once had been in such a hurry in the end of a working day when someone gave you a file from USB stick or e-mailed it. You just did nothing but put it on your desktop. Okay, but how to take it back from the office computer?
You can sync your desktop contents through iCloud Documents!
Bonus: since iCloud free space is just 5Gb, you are not going to litter your desktop with huge files 🙂
How to set it up? Quite easy! Continue reading…
Little pink cuties at a nowhere lawn
These guys have just appeared at a lawn. Weird propeller shapes on thick stalks, nice pink color and an elusive scent—their features are pretty strange. They dance in early spring, then hide and disappear. I eager to meet them again. Until then, their music is the only thing I retain in my mind.
Icon for Leef Surge USB flash drive
LEGO Astronaut introduces Leef Surge 32 Gb USB flash drive Recently I have bought a designer USB flash drive Leef…
Viewing photos on iPad: profiles for accurate color
iPad accurate color rendering test: butterflies | macro | landscape Many photographers use Apple iPad to show their portfolios or…
A.S.Adventure envelope design
A.S.Adventure envelope A.S.Adventure is Belgian chain stores of outdoor clothes and action equipment like Alpindustria, Kant or Tramontana in Saint-Petersburg.…
Field macrophotography of plants: a technique for capturing the flora in nature
I am going to describe in this article some technical features and approaches that I consider important and use in macrophotography of plants in wild nature. The picture I got during my last photosession in Lehmalahti shows how you can photograph macro on location.
My new logo
Here is my new logo «Gregory POZHVANOV photography». Vector image was created it in Adobe Illustrator after the idea development and a few sketches on paper. It is already used in my blog title and on my new photographs.
Solve the problem: WD Scorpio Blue 640 Gb (WD6400BEVT) spins up and down in macOS
Western Digital mobile hard drives, at least 640 Gb model, have some unpleasant features on Mac OS X, regardless whether is it a root volume or an external drive. When idle, disk spins down and then spins up several times a minute. Mac OS X’s power saving settings do not matter. This behavior is not only annoying but also harmful for the device.
How to optimize Lightroom performance
You may google this topic and found several advices on a) tricking with Camera RAW cache size, and b) disabling .XMP file option. Personally I dislike disabling .XMP’s. That’s why: if a Lightroom catalog file fails you’ll stay with fresh unprocessed RAWs and all your work with developing files will be lost. (Of course you can manually export develop settings, but should you remember?)
Hence I offer another method. Idea is simple: turn off some of abundant Lightroom modules, or plug-ins, and application will start and work faster.