Recent content by Tom Farrow

eh, why the nsfw tag?

Pingdom tests as 7 seconds from Netherlands (nearest test, 8.4 from NY) As someone who builds massive infra powering big sites, anything over a second is too slow for something I personally am building, BUT, 2 seconds would be a good goal. Your homepage weighs in at 9.1MB which is much too big...

I, a mozilla volunteer, am currently using Chrome. As much as I love Mozilla, it's mission and open source, Chrome seems to just work no matter what I throw at it. The best browser for you is the browser that works best for you. Don't exhaust Opera as an option, too :) Firefox and Chrome have...

I like this advice, and I will certainly take it on board. It takes a lot to make me even attend a wedding, never mind take photos of one! Similar advice to Paul's, but different. I guess having a budget DSLR (1100D) and lenses is great for this. I can experiment without forcing all of my...

Hmm... So I guess in a slightly crowded place it would probably be fine? Just not on a street with one other person on. My phone's camera is pretty bad. The phone was £100, I'm impressed with everything but the camera (though, they didn't even do too badly with that!). Which is impressive...

I've found myself watching a lot of portrait videos on youtube. Especially B&H videos; the theoretical rather than the technical aspect interests me much more. I know how to work my camera, I don't know how to compose a good photo (or didn't) So maybe I should try some more people shots. It's...

I had absolutely no practice taking people photos. I'm naturally not very good with people (or at least I think I'm not!) but I somehow seem to get much better quality images of people than anything else. I do think I enjoy doing it, though. Capturing moments in human life feels a lot more...

I've been looking through my photos and have notices one common point across all of my images - My people shots look better than my other shots. All of them. I'm also finding myself enjoying editing them much more than any other shot. When I started, I thought landscapes and wildlife would be...

I actually found the subject of this thread quite interesting - something I too was wondering, as someone just 1 year younger than Thomas (interestingly, we both share the name Thomas, too!) The question was worded confusingly, but I think it's clear now that he's interested in "what will I see...

yeah, I heard the apple peripherals work nicely I use a laptop as my main machine. For anything requiring extra juice, I tend to outsource to AWS or my windows machine. Really though, it's a powerful laptop.

Yep, I figured that. Sadly, the stuff I've been fed by hackintoshers for years, combined with my slight apple bias kinda tilted me to being really negative about hackintosh :) If I was in such love with how Apple devices feel, I'd consider building a hackintosh now you've cleared things up -...

Just speaking from discussions I've had with people who have tried hackintoshes before here. USB isn't PCI. I hate having those USB wireless dongles sticking out my machines, especially when I move my box and they snap ;) However, you could be right. I am possibly being fed complete BS by...

Wireless cards, LAN cards, USB interfaces, just to name a few. Apple drivers natively perform better on OS X than third party stuff. Coupled with the great hardware, it's pretty tough to beat apple in that situation (not impossible, but not easy). People always forget their network cards, USB...

I made the move from Windows to Mac last year. Never going back As a linux sysadmin, the unix-like-ness of Mac is really useful, but by not being linux, I get the flexibility and availability for software that a Windows PC has I would advise against hackintoshing though. Part of the mac...

Hmm - thanks for explaining your flash setup. I really like your shots.! I've seen two types of umbrellas so far. The reflective and the plain white ones. I understand that the plain one is used mostly for soft light, diffused, and slightly directional. And the reflective one does just that...