I really don’t like that my family has started venturing to the realm of the Internet. It was more than ok with they found their way to Amazon.com to spend $1000s per year on books and other crap they don’t really need, and it was even ok when they began e-mailing me (once they figured […]
It is really annoying when you try to think of something new and realize that you can’t conceive anything outside of what has been created before and then you feel certain that there is nothing new an interesting in the world, only to have the rational components of self to tell you that there must […]
I am trying to figure out what this particular creature is. There was a group of about 10 or so on a grape leaf in the yard. They do not fly, swarm or even move particularly quickly. When in confinement, they do not look for a way out, they become really still, but once out, […]
Recently when I shot the moon, I did so in RAW, so I get a few options in post-processing for how I wish the white balance to be. Anyone got any opinions on which one looks best?
Recently I have been working with a technique for digital photography called “high dynamic range”, which essentially takes the highlights from one image and matches them with the shadows from another image shot in the exact same position in a different exposure value. There is also another process that can be applied to an HDR […]
As many of my readers are aware, I like to do macro photography. This tends to be an interesting lighting situation to stabilize, since macro needs a really narrow aperture for the wide depth of field required to focus something so physically close to the lens. In most difficult situations for photography, the first line […]
I thought for sure after my Summer additions to my “system” I would be finished for a while, but it seems a few things have cropped up that I feel compelled to deal with. Lowepro TopLoader Orion Universal Camera Adapter LumiQuest Pocket Bouncer I have been on an endless search for a new camera bag, […]