Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts

Saturday, March 9, 2024

Final Cut Pro

 

Last weekend, before I went to the hospital again, I purchased the base Apple M2 Mac mini.  I wanted to start learning how to use Final Cut Pro on an Apple computer.  I had used FCP X about 7-8 years ago before completely switching to an Apple iPad Pro.  Apple released FCP for the iPad Pro last year but that app is just not there.  There is really no good colour or audio correction on the iPad Pro.   

Apple was also still running on Intel chips in those days.  No M series chips back in the 2010's.  I've been working on an iPad Pro for the last 4 or 5 years or so. 

On the weekends that I'm home in between hospital visits where I learn how to walk with my prosthetic, I've been learning how to  FCP X on the Mac mini.  Although pretty fast, much faster than an Intel based computer, it's not so good for video editing longer videos and adding edits such as video noise removal, and colour correction.  The iPad Pro with the M2 chip, 2TB of storage and 16GB of RAM is much, much faster. 

This coming week, I'm getting about 2 years worth of back pay from my job.  The plan is to buy a MacBook Pro with at least 2TB of storage and 64GB of RAM and an M3 Max chip on the inside.  I am hoping that is much more of a capable machine to handle 4k video editing.

I'm planning on using either my Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max with an external Samsung T7 2TB drive and editing off of that with the MacBook Pro.

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

More Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max photography

 



So that fiancée and I decided to go for a drive down to Brockville, ON this past weekend.  It’s one of our favourite places to go as the city is small and it has a lot of parks.  Brockville, ON is located on the St. Lawrence Seaway.  Across the river is New York State which you can see in the above photo.  I keep using the Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max with 512GB internal hard drive.

I edit all my photography on the 2018 Apple iPad Pro.  Apple is supposed to come out with a brand new iPad Pro this year.  Hopefully it’ll come out in March.  I’m thinking of upgrading the iPad Pro since my current iPad Pro is 3 years old now.  I upgrade my equipment every 3 years with the exception of the iPhone which is every 2 years.  But I think I’ll be keeping the iPhone 12 Pro Max for 3-4 years.  We shall see what Apple does.  If they release a new iPad Pro this year.  I prefer the 12.9” version.  I’ll probably get the 12.9” version with the 1TB hard drive.

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

IOS 14.3 and ProRaw photography

 


Cold and windy outside.  High of just minus thirteen degrees Celsius today.  Took a few quick shots of the Air and Space museum located in Ottawa today.  I used the Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max using iOS 14.3.  This is the baked in app on the iPhone.  Shot with the Camera app using the ProRaw option.   Absolutely love doing photography just with the iPhone.  No lugging around a camera body and huge lens.  The ability to shoot in Raw natively in the Camera app on the iPhone is very freeing.  Today was windy and cold.  Lasted maybe a few minutes outside.

All I need now for my landscape photography is my iPhone 12 Pro Max and iPad Pro.

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

It has started

 


So yesterday I grabbed my tripod and my newly acquired Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max with the 512GB of internal storage and went out for a short photo walk.  I photographed the Parliament buildings, the Supreme Court of Canada building and the National Arts Centre.  On my way back to the parking garage, I caught the above shot.  The building is part of the World Exchange Plaza located in downtown Ottawa.  Yesterday was a cool and brisk day.  I think the high was around -4 degrees Celsius with some wind.  I am totally impressed with the quality of the camera on the Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max.  The HDR photos and video are simply stunning.  This photo was taken at about 3:30pm with a setting sun in the west.  I think today is supposed to be the same in the afternoon so I’ll just go around the Ottawa downtown core and just do some handheld photography with the iPhone 12 Pro Max.

The video sizes are simply immense coming from the iPhone 12 Pro Max.  On Saturday, the fiancee and I went up for drive up to the Ottawa Valley.  I decided to use the Filmic Pro app on my iPhone and do a whole video of driving from Arnprior to Ottawa.  The 50 or so minute drive was about a 50GB file.  This is the reason I got the 512GB storage option on the iPhone.  It also took a while to Airdrop the file from the iPhone to my iPad Pro.  The iPad Pro handled the 50GB HDR video file a champ.  It’s on my YouTube channel if you want to check it out.  Here is the link.

Thursday, June 11, 2020

My only setup for now


2018 Apple iPad Pro.  Check.  Apple Magic Keyboard.  Check.  Apple Magic Mouse.  Check.  Sony a7R Mark II.  Check.  Canon Vixia HF G50.  Check.  Canon G7X Mark III.  Check.  Joby Tripod.  Check.  Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max (64GB model).  Check.  Apple EarPods (v. 2).  Check.  Best photography setup.  Check.  Apple SD Card to USB C adapter.  Check.

The 2018 Apple iPad Pro is an amazing device.  Edits my Sony a7R Mark II 85 megabyte files with ease.  Edits the Canon Vixia HF G50 4K 30fps files easily.  I do not have one complaint about this setup at all.  Extremely portable.  Once we’re allowed to travel, the iPad Pro and the Canon G7X Mark III will be my go to devices.    Just the iPad Pro and the small and powerful Canon camera.  Dream devices.

Friday, May 22, 2020

New Apple keyboard for the 2018 Apple iPad Pro 12.9”

Ships on the St. Lawrence Seaway

I received my the new 2020 Apple Keyboard for my 2018 Apple iPad Pro 12.9” iPad Pro.  I have to say that the 2018 Apple iPad Pro 12.9” with the 512GB hard drive IS a laptop replacement.  Typing is simply incredible on the keyboard.  It is more tactile with the key travel being a lot better than with the keyboard folio made by Apple.  I’ve had the 2018 Apple iPad Pro for over a year now and I can now say, with the new keyboard, I am never going back to a Windows or Mac OS X based laptop or desktop.  As a photographer, this iPad Pro is a beast.  There is not much difference as far as horsepower goes between the 2018 and 2020 iPad Pros.  From what I hear, the 2020 iPad Pro is only 1% faster than the 2018 iPad Pro.  The only reasons I’d upgrade to the 2020 iPad Pro is if I bought the 1TB version for the extra 500GB of space and the extra 2GB in memory.  But with the iPadOS being so efficient with the memory use, there is no point in having 6GB of RAM.

If the next iPad Pro has 8GB of RAM and larger SSDs like a 2TB or a 4TB model with a better GPU, then yes I would upgrade.  But the 2018 Apple iPad Pro handles my 85MB RAW files from my Sony a7RII like a champ.  There is absolutely no lag in processing the Sony RAW files.

The only thing I miss on the new version of the Apple keyboard are the function keys.  Actually the only function keys I miss are the ESC key and the volume Up/Down keys.  Other than that, that is all I miss.  By the way, if you go to https://www.josefpittner.photos, you can purchase my photography from the St. Lawrence Seaway.  The border between Canada and the U.S.A is unfortunately still closed which isn’t cool.  Maybe next time we go down there, the border will be open and we can actually cross into upstate New York and do some photography there.

Thursday, March 19, 2020

More photography with the Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max



I was still going into work last week when I got this photo of an ambulance picking up a patient in downtown Ottawa.  How things have changed in a week.  I’m off of work indefinitely.  Thankfully I have my Sony a7R II and my Sony f3.5-6.3 24-240MM lens.  I also have my Apple iPhone Pro Max.  My two favourite cameras to date.  I’m doing conference calls at certain points of the week and doing photography after.  One of my accounts at SSC is not set up properly so I cannot login via VPN.  Hopefully tomorrow it’ll be fixed.  I may actually go into work a few times next week just to check on emails and such.  I went today and there was actually one person working.

This Coronavirus thing just means I get to do more photography.  I distance myself from people when I see someone walking towards me.  I pretty much do my photography outside of the city.  I’ve over shot stuff in Ottawa so I’m looking to do new things.  If you have any ideas, let me know.

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Shot on the Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max



So now that the Coronavirus panic has hit Canada at the rate of 100% paranoia, I’m off the job for three weeks and no idea if and when I’ll be back.  The government is shut down except for essential services such as police, ambulance, hospital and such, I thought I’d test out the Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max along with the Sony a7R II full frame camera.

The Apple iPhone Pro Max (64GB) model cost me $1549 Canadian.  The Sony a7R II and the Sony f3.5-6.3 24-240MM cost me a cool $3500 roughly.  Guess which device I used to capture the above photo in the comments section. The iPhone has a 12 megapixel sensor and the Sony has a 42.3 megapixel sensor.  I’d say past 12 megapixels you can not tell the difference in detail or resolution.  Once Apple figures out how to take better photos with the telephoto lens, there will be no need for a DSLR or mirrorless camera.  Rumoured to be in the Apple iPhone 12 is a 64 megapixel sensor.  It’s only rumoured right now though.  The Samsung S20 Ultra has a 108 megapixel sensor.  These sensors are extremely small compared to a full frame camera so the picture quality of these 108 megapixels is going to be crap.  The Samsung outputs the 108 megapixel photo to a 12 megapixel file anyways.  So these numbers are just propaganda to sell the phone to people who have clearly no understanding of the technology and are just using the phone as a status symbol.

If you want a high megapixel camera in your hand, buy a DSLR or a mirrorless camera with a huge physical sensor.  But like I stated before, the eye cannot see the detail past 12 megapixels.  Also, your screen on your phone, iPad or computer cannot display that much information even on a 4K screen if the image is set as the background.  8K televisions are being produced right now but even now, 4K content is just starting to come up.  Content providers like Rogers and Bell here in Canada are still using 1080i signals here.  We may have 2-3 4K channels.  So all the talk of 108 megapixels on a phone camera or 8K displays etc is just hype to get you to buy more stuff.

Thursday, February 27, 2020

Canada’s Parliament Buildings




I walked up to Canada’s parliament buildings yesterday after work.  The whole place is under construction and will be for next ten years or so at rough cost of $10,000,000,000.  Knowing the Canadian government, it’ll take twenty years and cost double the estimate.  Knowing that the Parliament buildings were under construction and it being Wednesday and the start of an apparent massive snow storm, I knew there would be a limited amount of people and tourists on the Hill.   And I was right.  There were only 2 or 3 protestors on the hill.  Took the shot and got home a few hours later as I was waiting for my fiancé to pick me up.

I edited the photo on my 2018 Apple iPad Pro with the 12.9” screen and the 512GB hard drive using the Pixelmator Photo app which is perhaps the best and reasonably priced app on the Apple App Store.  I believe I only paid $5.49 for the app.  I am totally happy with this setup.  I think I’ll be using the Sony RX100 Mark VII for the photography and the Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max for my footage.

Sunday, December 29, 2019

More night photography with the Apple iPhone Pro Max


The 2010’s are coming to a quick close with New Years here in just 2 short days.  Fiancé and I went to play some pool and have some drinks last night and got home quite late for us.  Decided to step out onto the balcony with the iPhone Pro Max and take a test drive with the iPhone to do some long exposure night photography.  This was taken with the default Apple app.  3 second exposure, hand held off the ninth floor off our apartment building.  Edited in the default Apple Photos app.  I can truly say the iPhone has come a long way in the past 12 years or so.  Couldn’t do this 10 years ago, let alone a few years back.  I could make out some of the stars in the Big Dipper at the top of the frame.  The sky was noisy but in the Apple Photos app you can get rid of that.  I think in probably 3-5 years, you will only need an iPhone and an iPad to edit your photos on.  No more need for bulky DSLR cameras or point and shoots.  The hardware and software is getting much, much better.  The wide angle camera is pretty good so far.  Just needs optical image stabilization.  The zoom lens needs work as the image is shaky and noisy.

Sunday, December 8, 2019

Night photography with the iPhone 11 Pro Max (64 GB model)



I got the 2019 Apple iPhone Pro Max (64GB model) earlier this month.  I got it just because of the 3 camera system.  It’s still a 12 megapixel sensor which is good enough for blogs, micro stock agencies and such.  I had my doubts as it is a small sensor on a phone regardless if it’s an Apple iPhone or an Android phone.  I honestly don’t get these 106 megapixel phones that are just coming out.  It’s still the same sized sensor.  No matter how many pixels you put on there, it’s going to be small.  Even full frame cameras shoot up to 61 megapixels.  The Sony A7R IV is such one camera.  Yes there are 100 megapixel full frame sensors but you’re paying up to $100,000 for those cameras.

The Apple iPhone Pro Max actually quite surprised me as to how sharp the above night photo is.  No noise whatsoever and the colours are actually pretty nice to look at.  I haven’t had a chance to shoot long exposure night photography on the phone yet.  With the cold Canadian winters here in Ottawa, I don’t know when I’ll get a chance to do that.  Personally I hate the Ottawa winters.  They’re cold and miserable.

I edited the above photo in Apple Photo on my 2018 iPad Pro with the 12.9” screen and the 512GB SSD HD.  I read a comment on some forum a few weeks back which has kind of stuck with me. It basically stated that iPhones and iPads are going to be the future of photography.  I’m 90% sure that comment is correct or will be correct in a few years.  The Apple iPhone Max Pro is almost there.  The sweet point for me for a camera lens is the 24-200MM.  The Apple iPhone Pro Max already has the 13MM wide angle lens equivalent which is fantastic for wide angle photography.  Just need the lens to go up to 200MM or maybe even 240MM lens and no more DSLR or mirrorless cameras will be needed.

Saturday, November 30, 2019

Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max and the 2018 Apple iPad Pro

I finally did it.  I braved the crowds on Black Friday at Best Buy in the east of Ottawa yesterday.  Needless to say I was not pleased with the crowds in the store after work.  But in the end I got the Apple iPhone 11Pro Max(64GB) model.  There were a few reasons I wanted the iPhone 11 Pro Max listed below:
  1. The 3 camera system
  2. New network
  3. More portable than the Sony RX100 Mark VII
  4. Battery life
  5. Apple ecosystem
Ok.  So these are a few of the reasons.  I am really enjoying the three camera system on the iPhone.  I can shoot time lapse, slow motion and standard HD photos.  All cameras use the 12 megapixel sensor which is good enough for stock photography which is what I shoot.  I also sell my photography on Redbubble and Fine Art America.  You can find all the links on the right hand side of the front page on this site.

Secondly, I was on Freedom Mobile.  If you want a reliable network, do not go with Freedom Mobile.  If I was in the middle of downtown Ottawa, I’d have the crappiest reception that you can imagine.  I’d on their, what they call “Nationwide” LTE network.  On this network, I’d have 500MB of downloads per month before I’d hit their limits and my speeds would drop to 3G.  I’d get descent reception in my apartment but I’d be on my own Wi-Fi network.  If I was out of city limits, I’d be on their “Nationwide” network again.  I decided to go with Rogers.  I’m not a big fan of their customer service but they’re slightly better than Bell.  I was with Rogers before I switched to Freedom and not I’m back again.  

Thirdly, yes the Sony RX100 Mark VII is a very versatile and portable camera.  I love it and will continue to use it as my main photography camera.  But for quick and easy stuff, I’ll be using the iPhone 11 Pro Max.  The iPhone doesn’t provide as much control as the RX100 Mark VII but for quick and easy shots, it’ll do.

Fourth, the battery life seems to be fantastic.  I haven’t had it for a day yet but with daily use the battery is great so far.  More daily use will be needed to judge the value.

And fifth, I love the Apple ecosystem.  Especially using the iPhone, the iPad Pro and Apple iCloud.  I pay Apple about $13 a month for 2TB of data storage to back up my photos and necessary documents.  I don’t do any dongles, even with my iPad Pro.  Especially now if I’m going to use the iPhone 11 Pro Max for the majority of my photography.  Especially if just go do walk around photography in downtown Ottawa.  For wildlife photography, I’ll still use my Sony RX100 Mark VII.  Even for my landscape photography I’ll use the Sony RX100 Mark VII camera since I can add physical filters.

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

My 2018 Apple iPad Pro setup



Just missing the Sony RX100 Mark VII and the Apple iPhone 8 Plus which actually took this photo and you’d have my complete setup.  I think next week when Black Friday comes around, I’ll go to Best Buy and get a new Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max with the 256GB hard drive.  Yup, life is good.  I think I’ll be using the iPhone for a lot more of my landscape photography.

Friday, October 4, 2019

Apple iPadOS 13.1.2

So I had an issue with the new iPadOS.  Some of the keys would not work when I had my Bluetooth mouse connected.  I posted the issue on the Apple Communities Support Forum about 2 weeks ago.  Today, someone posted the solution to my and others keyboard/mouse problem.  Now, I literally have no issues with the iPadOS.  I just got rid of my Windows 10 laptop permanently.  I still do have one issue with iPadOS.  I actually have the same issue on Windows 10 and Apple desktop operating system.  My Sony RX100 Mark VII is not yet supported.  Not the RAW images anyways.  That should be updated probably within a month or so.  Luckily I have my Sony RX100 Mark VI which works fine with all operating systems.  I am happy with the iPadOS now.  Thankfully.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Apple iPadOS is buggy as hell

So Apples iPadOS came out today and so far it's a disaster as far as my experience goes.   i use the external apple case with the keyboard.  half the keys don't work.  I have to use the on screen keyboard to type this since the eternal keyboard is pretty much useless.  Also the Apple bluetooth magic mouse doesn't work with the new operating system.  What a shit show Apple.

Friday, September 20, 2019

IOS 13 is out and it’s...

...meh.  Dark mode is nice and all and that’s about it.  Couldn’t get my Apple Bluetooth mouse to connect.  It just kept searching and searching and searching.  I don’t know I’d need mouse support on an iPhone.  The App Store app kind of a step backward.  It’s got the Arcade button at the bottom right.  I’m 44 years old.  Haven’t played games since I was 14 or 15.  So that for me is a step backward.  My iPhone 8 Plus feels a bit sluggish compared to iOS 12.  Thankfully iOS 13.1 is coming out in a few days so hopefully it’ll speed up my iPhone 8 Plus.  The camera app has been upgraded to offer more options for shooting.  I use Camera+ 2 for 98% of my iPhone 8 Plus photography.  I barely use my iPhone for photography.  Instead I use my Sony RX100 Mark VI and VII for 99.999999% of any photography and videography that I do.  So far, iOS 13 seems like a meh update for the iPhone anyways.  I’m still waiting for iPadOS to be released in 4 days.  I hope that iPadOS 13.1 will be released.  I hope my Sony RX100 VII will be supported. At least the photos would be supported with the new RAW engine updates.  

I just want to access SD cards from my iPad Pro so I can import footage from my Sony RX100 Mark VII so I can import them into LumaTouch.  I hate using WiFi to import footage clips from my external hard drive that uses WiFi.  It’s so damn slow.  I am really looking forward to the iPadOS so I can ditch my laptops, both Windows and Apple.  I love shooting 4K and photos on my Sony RX100 Mark VI and VII.  

So I’m just waiting on clearance for two contracts for my last I.T position in Ottawa.  In April 2020, I want to be in Calgary, Alberta.  I am so sick of Ottawa and Ontario.  I am so depressed right now just waiting for government security get my clearance processed.  It takes them so long.  What good a day or two a few years ago now takes weeks.  It’s not like I have a name that is so foreign.

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Apple has become a joke

I’ve been using an assortment of Apple products for the past 15 years or so.  I started with a Mac Mini.  I upgraded the hard drive and RAM in that machine.  Now, you can’t upgrade anything since all the parts such as the RAM and hard drive are soldered onto the motherboard of every Apple computer from the iMac Pro to the new Mac Mini.  That’s just the computer hardware side of things.  The iPhone lineup is a joke as well.  Minimal upgrades every year it seems like.  This years new iPhone Pro or iPhone 11 Pro Max is a joke.  If I want a real camera, I’ll grab my Sony RX100 Mark VI or Mark VII.  I don’t even consider using my iPhone 8 Plus as my main camera.  The Sony RX100 Mark VI is the perfect travel camera I don’t even use the iPhone for anything but making phone calls and watching the occasional YouTube video.  My iPhone is a phone and and iPod.

The thing that irks me the most now is the software upgrades.  The Apple software is buggy and unstable.  Almost unreliable.  I was hoping that iPadOS would come out when iOS 13 for the iPhone came out on September 19th, 2019.  Nope.  It’ll take an extra week and a half for iPad OS to come out.  More beta testing is needed for iPadOS 13.1.  iPadOS 13 is more than likely not going to come out.  Us iPad Pro users will likely get iPadOS 13.1 on September 30th, 2019.  Luckily I still have my Asus ROG gaming laptop to edit photos and videos on.

On another side note, I start a new job on September 16th, 2019.  It runs till the end of December 2019 with a good chance of extension.  I’m hoping I get extended until March 31, 2020.  Then we just move to Calgary, Alberta.  I am so sick of Ottawa.  It’s so depressing living here.  I want to pay off some credit card debt and then take a week or two to get to Calgary in April 2020.  I cannot stand Ottawa anymore.

I’m studying and learning how to use Affinity Photo for the Apple iPad Pro.  I have it on my laptop as well but I’m finding that I am using the iPad Pro more.  With Apple iPadOS coming out at the end of the month, I’ll be able to use the iPad Pro for 100% of my work.  Hopefully Apple will upgrade the RAW drivers to include the Sony RX100 Mark VII so I’ll be able to use the Sony RX100 VII with the Apple iPad Pro.

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Wow Apple,that was really...

...underwhelming.  Arcade, Apple Watch, new bands, retail?  New Apple iPhone 11 and the Apple iPhone 11 Pro?  I don’t use my phone for the majority of my photography, let alone shoot my footage.  I was hoping for more information on new laptops, the Mac Pro, iPadOS, iOS13.  But nothing.  Just new phones and services I have no interest in.  I am so disappointed with Apple right now.  No information or updates on iPadOS.  Nothing.

I was going to do a livestream of myself reacting to the September 10, 2019 event.  I’m glad I didn’t.

Just read on Macworld.com that iPadOS will be available September 19th.  A week from this Thursday.  IOS 13.1 will be available on September 30th, 2019 which is pretty specific for a dot one release.  Why couldn’t Apple say this in their presentation?  I want a fully functional 2018 Apple iPad Pro.  IOS 12 is a disaster.  IPadOS is much more feature rich and it’ll make the iPad Pro usable.

Edit:  iPad OS 13 will be available on September 30th of this year with iPad OS 13.1 being available the same day.  WTF Apple?  This is really confusing.  IOS 13 will be available on September 19th for the iPhones.  God!!!!! Another 20 days with iOS 12.4.1!!!!!!  I so wanted to only use my 2018 Apple iPad Pro with iPadOS 13 ASAP.

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Apple and Microsoft need updates

Both Microsoft and Apple need to release their Digital Raw updates to support new cameras that have come out onto the market in the last month or so.  Apple is hopefully releasing their new iPadOS, their iPad Pro centric OS in the next two weeks.  I have the new Sony RX100 Mark VII camera and I can't use any of the pictures yet because they're not supported in any of the software such as Apple Photos on the iPad Pro or ON1 Photo RAW 19.5 running on Windows.  I've had the camera for 2.5 weeks now and it's basically unusable for me on the iPad Pro.  I can grab the videos from the RX100 VII and import them into Wondershare's Filmora 9.  I really just want to actually start using the camera at 100% of its capabilities  Hopefully all the necessary updates will be released in the next couple of weeks.

Monday, August 19, 2019

Seriously Apple!!!!

I’ve hit a wall.  The new Sony RX100 Mark VII is not supported on the 2018 Apple iPad Pro running iOS 12.4.  And it probably won’t be supported with the new iPadOS coming out in about a month or so.  So what do I do for the next month?  I think I will have to pull out the Windows 10 laptop and edit photos and footage in ON1 Photo Raw 19.5 for the next month or so.  I’ve basically run out of space in Photos as well to import said photography and footage.  I know, I know, first world problems.  I need external hard drive support on the 2018 Apple iPad Pro.  I do not want to edit in Windows 10 or on a MacBook Pro.  I am enjoying the iPad Pro too much.  I just wish September 19, 2019 would come sooner so I could install Apple iPadOS on my iPad Pro and ditch the computer life forever.

Today at work I bought a mic plate for less than $7 so can attach either my Sony RX100 Mark VII or my Canon Vixia HF R800 and my Rode Video Mic Pro+ and use that for either 4K or 1080p video.  The Sony RX100 Mark VII doesn’t have the optical reach of the Canon Vixia HF R800.  

I am really, really bored with my I.T career. I just have no more will to pursue it any further.  I am enjoying photography and shooting video far more than I am fixing computers for everyone.  This will definitely be my last I.T contract in Ottawa. I am planning on moving to Calgary in early 2020.  When I was in Calgary back in 2017, I really enjoyed it. Going to the mountains every weekend.  Enjoying the mountains, forests and lakes.  Hell, the photo I took that I was thinking was just a snap that I edited in black and white was not going to sell,  Ever.  Now it’s my number one best selling photo ever on Shutterstock.  I’ve sold it almost 250 times since it being uploaded.

I am teaching myself how to use Affinity Photo on my iPad Pro.  I haven’t touched Photoshop in more than 2 years.  I really do not enjoy the subscription model Adobe is using to sell their software.  I paid less than $25 for Affinity Photo for my iPad Pro.  I also have it on my Windows 10 laptop.  It’s an awesome Photoshop alternative.  

Now it’s time to go for dinner.  Big Bone BBQ is calling my name.