February 28, 2008Adobe Lightroom has this neat feature called “Presets.” Instead of making all the adjustments manually, you hit one button and a whole set of adjustments and tweaks are applied all at once.
And, individuals can create their own “User Presets,” which are uploaded and hosted at various sites, and then guys like me download them [...]
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February 28, 2008I haven’t done much shooting since I got back from Africa last month. The days are slowly getting longer, which means there is actually a little light left when I get home from work, and yesterday I forced myself to walk around the house and yard and try to find something interesting.
These may not [...]
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February 27, 2008My front door. Of course, the vignette isn’t there in real life. It was added later in Lightroom
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February 27, 2008As many of you know, I use Flickr to host many of my digital images. It used to be an independent company, but it was bought by Yahoo! and now it’s a pretty big system….hundreds of thousands of users and millions and millions of photographs.
Flickr keeps track of the number of views, comments and [...]
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February 26, 2008Some brightly colored bolts of cloth hanging outside a shop in Gulu.
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February 24, 2008First of all, I’m not too proud to admit I used to watch Grey’s Anatomy with my wife. That, I hope, explains how I happen to know what in the world Jeffrey Dean Morgan looks like. The first time I saw a trailer for No Country for Old Men, I would have sworn [...]
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February 20, 2008As much as I love my new lens (reviewed below), it’s still only 200mm long. Nights like tonight I wish I had a 400mm or 600mm, or access to a telescope. This isn’t very sharp because it was really cold out (it went from a high of 70+ this afternoon to about 35 [...]
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February 20, 2008For those of you who don’t care a lick about the technical side of photography, go ahead and click somewhere else. Here is my shallow (as opposed to “In-Depth”) review of the newest piece of equipment in my bag.
The Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM (fancy terminology that really means nothing more than [...]
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February 20, 2008For those of you who don’t care a lick about the technical side of photography, go ahead and click somewhere else. Here is my shallow (as opposed to “In-Depth”) review of the newest piece of equipment in my bag.
The Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM (fancy terminology that really means nothing more than [...]
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February 19, 2008Go read Gary Chapman’s post about the tension he feels as a photographer, and not a “doer.”
…”Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason cease to [...]
