Cooper Ricketts Photography Blog

Spending Time With Family.

Recently My cousin came by and brought her kids so i decided to take a couple photos I dont normaly like photographing kids but that day I didnt mind at all.

9/11 is a somber day and a lot of people like to remember the day by showing signs of patriotism or honoring those firefighters and police officers who died on that tragic day. At Kennesaw Mt people put out flags of all of those you died on that day. Brittany Roy and myself went by and took some pictures.

Ga Aquarium.

Brittany Roy and myself went to the Ga Aquarium the other day and we took our cameras just for fun. There was a lot of different and colorful things to photograph. It was an amazing day.

Themed Wedding.

I recently shot a themed wedding with Jenni Green, it was an awesome idea and mad the event that much more fun. I always enjoy shooting weddings and I have been lucky enough so far to not have had to shoot one I didn’t like. I look forward to shooting more interesting wedding in the future.

Panoramas!

Today me and Brittany Roy did some hiking and we decided to do some panoramas too,it was a nice day to be out taking pictures.

New Family Member.

My cousin recently had a new baby girl she came by the house today and I took a couple of pictures of her, I think I’ll take some more before she get’s bigger.

New Inspiration.

I was looking for some new and different ways of compositing photos when I stumbled on to Erick Johanson’s website I became an instant fan, I don’t usually do a lot of compositing with my work but who knows I might have to start.

7D Firmware Update.

Now I have not updated my 7D but then agin I havent had any problems with it doesn’t mean you shouldnt go ahead and update it but if you havent run in to any problems you can probably wait and if you have more questions or want more info regarding the 7D click here or here

*UPDATE*
Canon has killed the links to the firmware on the various sites around the globe. So I am going to host it instead.

Download EOS 7D Firmware 1.2.5 (12.4mb)

Extract the .fir file and put it on the root of a CF card. Put the CF card in your 7D and go to the firmware section in your menu. Select the file on the card and install.

This firmware is official Canon firmware that was prematurely leaked by Canon UK & Canon Europe.

Disclaimer
Should you install it? I have and everything is ok. If you’re a bit uncomfortable doing so, you can probably live without it. If you have any of the bugs listed below, installing it is probably wise.

thanks Eric

Changes in this firmware

Firmware Version 1.2.5 incorporates the following improvements and fixes.

Fixed a rare phenomenon in which there were rare cases where movie files taken could not be opened when repeatedly shooting movies with specific CF cards.
Fixed a rare phenomenon in which there were cases where “Err 02″ appeared when repeatedly shooting still images with specific CF cards.
Fixed a phenomenon that occurred when using high-capacity (32 GB or greater) CF cards: If either a CF card with only a little available space remaining or the battery was removed and then reinserted into the camera, and then the user attempted to start shooting movies immediately, shooting would stop.
Improved the writing/reading speeds when using UDMA 7-compatible CF cards.
Fixed a phenomenon that occurred when custom function C.Fn 4-1 was set to assign IS start to the AF stop button on the lens: When used with lenses that do not have an AF stop button, the IS function would not work.
Corrected some mistakes in the menu screens displayed in Arabic and Portuguese. (This applies to models in overseas markets. The models for the Japanese market do not display those languages.)

Panorama.

I recently went up to Lake Lainer with some photography friends, Brittany Roy, Amy Andoe and William Twitty it was a nice day for picture-taking and I thought I would do a panorama.

Rollerblading In Atlanta.

Before I got in to photography I skated all the time so this was a collaboration of two loves, we skated for the better part of the day and I thought these are the most interesting. I think I will take more skating pictures in the future.