Lets talk about the Synology DS3622xs+
What is 2.5GbE (and do you need it)?
Adventures in IT – updating the Fitzgibbon PoP
Using the Synology DS225+
Synology DiskStation DS225+
Plant portraits and the catadioptric lens
Reducing noise redux
A mobile phone is not a camera… or is it?
Bicycle Photography
Even more macro photography
A brief history of RAW editors
Reducing image noise
Why shoot RAW?
Perfect exposure
Macro Photography
White Balance and Color Correction
Lighting for headshots
Lens Filters
Lets talk about the Synology DS3622xs+
In an earlier article I pondered my ongoing storage needs to manage around 300000 images and counting. I had been using the Synology RS815 since 2015 and it no longer delivered the performance I needed with my imaging application. That’s…
What is 2.5GbE (and do you need it)?
For many people internet and network connectivity is some sort of magic. Somehow the world exists at the end of a keyboard, no need to explain further. But some have a bit more curiosity about networking and the internet and…
Adventures in IT – updating the Fitzgibbon PoP
The Fitzgibbon PoP – the home network so named because, well read on and find out. In the beginning, 2004 lets say, there was the shoe rack data centre. This was a Telstra cable modem, WRT54G router and access point…
Using the Synology DS225+
A while back I added a Synology Diskstation DS225+ to the NAS fleet for the purpose of providing fast shared storage for the imaging workstations, one Mac, one PC which I wrote about here. On paper the DS225+ appeared a…
Synology DiskStation DS225+
Introduction Mobile phones are often the centre of our digital world, and we routinely use the cloud to store images and other data. But when you need to store and share many hundreds of thousands of images? We could buy…

























