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Category Archives: Photos
The Photographer with 5,000 Wikipedia Photo Credits
Photographer’s Photos Found in Over 5,000 Wikipedia Articles: I care more about experience than money. I was at a party once where someone asked me about my work and she said I must make a lot of cash. When I … Continue reading
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Trying Out the New Effects in Google Picasa 3.9
The latest version of Picasa has lots of new effects, so I tried them all. I used the default settings with two exceptions to maintain the picture shapes: I turned off rounded corners in 1960′s and letterbox in Cinemascope. Click … Continue reading
Nikon Releases D3200 Camera, 28mm F/1.8 Lens, WU-1a Wireless Adapter
Nikon D3200, WU-1a, Nikkor 28mm f/1.8G officially announced. The WU-1a is a little $60 doodad that lets you send pics to your WiFi-enabled smartphone or tablet so you can share them over the Internet. For now it only works with … Continue reading
Last Year’s Vegetable Garden
This is coming up in the vegetable garden from last year.
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Nikon D800 and D4 take the #1 and #3 spots at DxOMark
And #2 is a $40,000 Phase One.
“Have Mercy, Lord”
Have Mercy, Lord: An original song by Melissa’s grandmother Geneva Henry and great aunt Stella Williford. Recorded March 17, 2012 on her 89th birthday. Happy birthday, Geneva.
Nasim Mansurov’s Lightroom 4 Review
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Oil and Water Macro Photography
This looks cool and not hard at all. It’s oil and water in a glass pan, with a piece of colorful fabric behind it. A macro or long telephoto lens is helpful to have. From Digital Photography School’s 31 Amazing … Continue reading
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How to Visualize Photography Lighting Setups in Blender
Neat idea – quick reference card with different lighting angles. Here’s the same idea done with Blender 3D modeling software instead of real photos. Previously – Effect of Lens Focal Length on Portraits
Adobe Lightroom 4 Released
It’s out with lots of new features. Adobe cut the price in half to $149, which is a deal by Adobe standards. Upgrades are $79. I’ll pull the trigger on an upgrade after I pay some baby bills. LATER: Version … Continue reading
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I rarely like pictures of myself
but I’ll make an exception for this one. That’s me with my two girls at the Girl Scouts Daddy Daughter Dance.
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DSLR Video – Sound Monitoring for the Nikon D7000
Guest post: DIY sound monitoring for the Nikon D7000
DPReview: Facebook Lightbox will offer improved Facebook photos, but Google+ still has the edge
Digital Photography Review – Facebook Lightbox vs Google+: which better presents your images? Facebook is making its first steps towards taking photography seriously with the launch of its Lightbox display interface. The change, which is being rolled-out to users in … Continue reading
Build a Collapsible DIY Macro Studio With Popup Laundry-Bag
Bookmarking this.
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Male Red-Bellied Woodpecker
In this picture we see the proverbial woodpecker lips. Why they call these red-bellied woodpeckers I’ll never know. It’s more like the “little patch of rust on its belly woodpecker.” Allaboutbirds.com has a great guide to the red-belly and similar … Continue reading
Word of the Day – Sepia Toning, Monochrome, Split Tone
This is more like etymology of the day than word of the day. It’s an excuse to link to this: Did You Know: Sepia Toning is Named After the Common Cuttlefish: Sepia is a dark brown-grey color, named after the … Continue reading
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Nikon Releases D800/D800E
Nikon released the D700 replacement, the D800. They’ve gone nuts with megapixels, going from 12 to 36. The new camera is a hair smaller and about 4 ounces lighter, with advanced features. MSRP is $2,999.95. The D800E is the same … Continue reading
Scott Kelby on Adobe Lightroom 4 Beta
Scott Kelby’s Photoshop Insider – Why I Think Lightroom 4 is Going To Sell Like Crazy: The improvements in Lightroom’s Development module are so significant, and so much better than what we’ve ever had before, that I think you’ll be … Continue reading
Flash photography and the inverse square law
bounce flash photography & the inverse square law – Neil vN tangents. Good stuff. The Mark Wallace video he links is even better: I understood the basic concept and I still learned a lot. I didn’t appreciate how quickly in … Continue reading
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