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A Quick Website Update

A Quick Website Update

Thomas Fitzgerald
Site News

I’ve been a bit remiss in posting over the past two weeks, and that’s because I’ve been preoccupied with a little side project. For the longest time now, I have not been happy with my website(s). My photography web presence is basically split into two parts. There’s this one, which is my “gear and news” blog and then my portfolio site, which also has my (mostly) gear free “ pure photography” blog. Ive hosted these on Squarespace for years now, but I’ve been increasingly frustrated by the way the sites work, and by Squarespace in general. Unfortunately moving platforms isn’t really a viable option as the sites, particularly this one, are too big to easily move. With that in mind, I’ve set about trying to update them within the confines of the current host.

Seasons Greetings and Happy Christmas

Seasons Greetings and Happy Christmas

Thomas Fitzgerald
Site News

As Christmas is almost here, and the year comes to an end, I just wanted to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude to everyone who’s been following along, reading my posts this year. Whether you’ve been a loyal reader for years or just recently discovered this blog, your support means the world to me.

Changing Up The Socials: BlueSky and Threads

Changing Up The Socials: BlueSky and Threads

Thomas Fitzgerald
News, Site News

In case you’ve been living under a rock, there’s been a bit of a sea change in the world of social media platforms recently. Now, at first, you may think, what has this to do with photography? Well, as many artists and photographers use social media to promote their content, I wanted to take a quick look at the changing order of things, and keep you up to date on where I’m posting.

The longest I’ve ever gone without taking a photo. Or, Update on the Update on The Update.

The longest I’ve ever gone without taking a photo. Or, Update on the Update on The Update.

Thomas Fitzgerald
Editorial, Site News

I feel like this blog has turned into a long series of me apologising for not updating the blog. In some sense it’s almost become comedic, and if it wasn’t such a pain from my point of view I’d be laughing more (although I’m doing my best to try and see the funny side). I’ve had a crazy couple of months. So much so that even though it’s nearly March as I write this, it still feels like early January. I keep thinking Christmas was last week, not two months ago. So what’s been happening? Well, a bit of a rollercoaster to be honest.

Update on the Update

Update on the Update

Thomas Fitzgerald
Behind the Scenes, Site News

There’s an old axiom about never telling people your plans publicly until they’re set in stone, and I recently made that mistake when I shared a blog post a little while ago about what I had planned for this website. I had mentioned that I wasn’t happy with Squarespace, and that I was planning to move back to WordPress. Well, you may have noticed that nothing has actually happened….

Happy Christmas and End of Year Update

Happy Christmas and End of Year Update

Thomas Fitzgerald
Site News

As it’s getting pretty close to Christmas now, I’m signing off for the rest of the year to take a much-needed break. I have a few unfinished articles that I had hoped to get out before Christmas, but they’ll be out in the new year now. I’ll get to those in a minute, but for now, I wanted to wish everyone out there who celebrates it, a happy Christmas, and for everyone, a happy new year. Let’s hope 2020 doesn’t have any more nasty surprises up its sleeve for is. I’ve gone and jinxed it, haven’t I?

A Guide to All of My Guides! (Fuji & Sony Guides & Future Plans)

A Guide to All of My Guides! (Fuji & Sony Guides & Future Plans)

Thomas Fitzgerald
Sales, Site News

Over the past few years, the one topic I’ve covered more than any other here on the blog, and in published form, is the subject of Processing Fuji Raw files. I’ve published several eBooks about Processing Fuji raw files in various software. I’ve also written a guide on how to get the best out of processing Sony A6000 files in Lightroom. Over the past few months I’ve updated all of my current Fuji guides so that they are up to date for 2019. This included free updates to three of the guides, and one new edition. The exception is my old Iridient Developer guide, which I will no longer be supporting (more on that below)

Alpine for Lightroom & Photoshop now Available

Alpine for Lightroom & Photoshop now Available

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom, Site News

I’m pleased to announce that my latest set of Lightroom presets are now finally available. I had previewed these a while ago, with the intention of releasing them shortly thereafter, but then Adobe went and changed the preset format, so I had to delay the launch until I made sure everything was working ok. The advantage of the delay is that the set is now compatible with both Photoshop and Lightroom, and I’ve also included 5 creative profiles too. So without further ado, introducing Alpine for Lightroom and Photoshop.

Introducing Film Candy LUTS

Introducing Film Candy LUTS

Thomas Fitzgerald
Video, Site News, Luminar, Software

I’m happy to introduce my first new digital product of 2018, and something that I’ve been working on for quite some time. Today I’m launching a new set of LUTs based on my “Film Candy” series of Lightroom presets. This set of 75 LUTs contains looks from both Film candy 1 and 2 and have been designed to be used in popular video applications as well as stills software such as Luminar 2018 and Photoshop.

What I’ve been doing on Patreon (Shameless Plug)

What I’ve been doing on Patreon (Shameless Plug)

Thomas Fitzgerald
Site News

I’ve been running my Patreon membership for a couple of months now, and so far there’s been a fairly good response. It was kind of hard to explain what it was going to be when I fist started it, and even for myself, it was hard to exactly figure out what it was going to be. Now that it’s been up for a few months, I thought I’d share some of the details of what I’ve been doing on the channel, or page, or whatever you call it!

Store Problems

Store Problems

Thomas Fitzgerald
Site News, Sales, News

I have had to temporarily disable sales on my online store as a technical problem has occurred that is affecting payment processing. I am working with the server administrators in my hosting company to resolve the issue, but in order to prevent any problems with customer purchases I am disabling sales until I can find a solution. I am also putting backup plan into place should this take too long to resolve.

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