Entries Categorized as 'Photography'

Zoo Trip

Date March 8, 2010

We had great weather last weekend in Dallas, reaching a nice 62F, so we decided to hit the Dallas Zoo. It’s probably the first time I’ve got the camera out in a while, excluding some small photo shoots for the office. Lugging around my D70s, and my Sigma 70-200, managed to make a [...]

It arrived…

Date March 19, 2009

I’m a little bit of a photography fan.  I might not be great , but I do enjoy playing around with the gear.  A few weeks back, Joe McNally announced a new book.  I took advantage of Amazon’s pre-ordering, and snapped one up.  It arrived today.  Now to get reading…

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100+ Reasons to use carry-on

Date October 9, 2008

100+ reasons to carry-on when flying.

Handy Dandy Photography Videos

Date June 26, 2008

If you’re new to lighting, studio or not, Strobist rocks. Recently I’ve discovered a new resource. ProPhotoLife is another blog that has a lot of studio based walk throughs, giving examples of setups, lighting guides, and all kinds of cool stuff. The nifty thing is how he’s doing some of it. [...]

Black and White Conversions

Date February 25, 2008

Sometimes, when taking pictures in poor light, and using high ISOs, the best thing to do is convert to black and white. It gives the effect of grainy film. I’ve got some side-by-sides here.

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Metadata Templates for Bridge/Photoshop

Date February 11, 2008

Every once in a while, I need to batch add copyright notices, or similar disclaimers to images. Not that I’m that good at photography I need to copyright them, but I feel the need is still there. Adobe Bridge has the ability to append/replace metadata in images (EXIF for JPEGs for example) with [...]

NADA 2008

Date February 11, 2008

This year, I got roped into taking part in NADA 2008. While the prospect of doing yet another conference was not so appealing, the prospect of getting to a new city was interesting. This year, NADA is hosted in San Francisco, so the potential of seeing the Golden Gate Bridge was pretty cool, [...]

New Toy…

Date February 4, 2008

A new toy to help me with one of my projects for this year. I’ll have some pictures up shortly.

Ice-cream-sphere cloud

Date January 20, 2008

A little bit of a mouth full, and rather nerdy, but works pretty well. Gary Fong developed a Lightsphere Cloud, but I was resourceful, and constructed one from an ice cream container. I don’t even remember what ice-cream it was, but the container was the rigid semi-transparent plastic. I removed all the stickers, [...]

Flash, and something new…

Date December 23, 2007

Ever tried to figure out how to get the perfect exposure? Old time photography pros probably already know all about the Guide Number, but Strobist has a quick guide to the “Guide Number”. It’s a handy bit of information, and I had a play with it this evening. You can dial in [...]