Techniques

  • Suggestions Aplenty!

    From my cry for help of Saturday, I received some great suggestions on how to improve my macro mum shot.  Thank you all for the shooting tips, as well as the “correction” tips.  Haven’t had time to really experiment with the ISO and white balance settings yet, but intend to.  Think I’ll put Light Room…

  • Fisheye Day

    Today, I received my rental fisheye lens from lensrentals.com.  So when I took Beau out for a spin, I took the lens out…This is my first experience with an ultra-wide.                  Speaking of FISHeyes…how are the challenge images coming along?   I have received four entries…you all have…

  • Best New Read…

    World famous photographer and Canon Explorer of Light, Rick Sammon, shares the keys to taking great photos of people.   My copy came today from Amazon.  I have just begun to dig into this but I can tell already that Face To Face will make me a better photographer.  As the Seven Point System opened…

  • Variations on Rust and Weeds

    SOOC Vintage Whole Can-O-Photoshop Soft and Foggy 7PS

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  • Vintage Paris

    P’Dub has kindly given us her first set of Photoshop actions. It’s like getting Rachel Ray’s prep team to prepare all your recipes to the point where you can waltz in at the last moment and “Viola” stir a bowl, pour a dish, press a button and 30 minutes a dinner for 800 starving armenians.…

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  • There is no thing as a bad Paris Shot

    ETA: Sherweld took the same image and applied the HDR effect…what drama huh? Kelby Seven Point System Bridge Ortinized A whole Can-O-Photoshop And in case you were curious…SOOC

  • Recovering a bad shot…

    We all have them…shots where the subject looks good, but your techincal skillz are lacking…too dark, too much noise, not sharp enough. What to do? Here is a shot of Beau, my trust compadre beagle, in which he looks FAB…but there is way too much noise and not crisp enough focus. So using Scott Kelby’s…

  • Shooting Film After Digital…

    This seems to be a topic that keeps coming to the fore…my niece just completed a college Photography course that required film only. She talked about the disposable nature of digital images, while I remarked that film intimidated me (the fear of failing is costly and never so evident with a roll that is either…

  • Alright, who gave my Mom the tripod…

    and remote switch? She is a little snap happy. I mean there I was taking a nice snooze on the couch and I hear that dern 40D whirring in my ears…I look up and Mom is looming over her camera held on these freaky stick legs, while she is holding this remote switch in her…