Category: Photography
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Lightroom Mobile: Coming of age
Every year, when Apple releases a new phone, it’s faster, lighter, has better battery life, and the ergonomics change just subtly enough so that at least a new case is in order. We all know… Read more
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A panoramic of home amidst the pandemic
The pandemic has slowed and shrunk my life in pretty significant ways. It’s been months since I’ve left the county which is a stark contrast to my prior routine. One of the most profound effects… Read more
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Three approaches to panoramas for the iPhone
Starting off in print photography, I learned that the standard photograph here in the States is 4″ x 6″. Just about every film camera takes images in that aspect ratio. The prevalence of digital cameras… Read more
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Speed shooting for photographers
My employer has campuses all over the world. While on an extended trip to Sydney, I met up with a group of photographers there called the “Shutterbugs.” The Shutterbugs every so often explore the area around… Read more
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Bronte Pools: 5 tips for long exposure photography
The photographer’s day really begins well before sunrise. The early morning hours are critical in getting great photos as the most color change happens the hours around sunrise and sunset. One of the Meetup groups,… Read more
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5 tips from a newbie in the studio
One of the pleasant surprises here in Sydney is that it has a very vibrant culture of Meetup groups. I thought Meetup, being a New York corporation would have very limited presence here. The opposite… Read more
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Australians love their fireworks
It was an exceptionally good sunset tonight seeing the warm colors across the sky from our balcony. I think I’ve seen more fireworks here in three weeks than I have the last 10 years living… Read more
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Atlassian Photo Walk at 16mm
Atlassian’s corporate headquarters is right in the heart of Sydney. It’s a beautiful location in the old Bank of New South Wales. As one could expect, we make extensive use of HipChat, our group chat… Read more
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Chinese New Year: Fireworks
Chinese New Year is a huge deal here. Celebrations are going on over the next two weeks including parades, food fairs, fireworks, and even coloring the Sydney Opera House with red light (as fleeting as… Read more
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Sydney Trains: under ground
It’s amazing sometimes how the cadence of your day can change so quickly. I was walking home across the Sydney Harbor Bridge and saw that the Sydney Opera House was lit in bright red for… Read more
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Treasure Island: viewed with a wide angle and a telephoto lens
Treasure Island speaks to me. I love the view peering back into San Francisco from the island. I stopped with a buddy of mine several years ago to show him the view. He remarked, “this… Read more
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Kings Canyon through HDR Photography
I came over the pass at Grant Grove at about 4 o’clock. Why is that significant? I’m well within “crappy afternoon light” part of the day. What is “crappy afternoon light?” By no means is… Read more
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Spot Metering: Dealing with Noise
Removing Noise with Adobe Lightroom One of the benefits of spot metering is that you can dial in the metering to a specific area of the photograph. Sometimes, when using spot metering there are large… Read more
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Understanding Exposure: Spot Metering
Moving up from a point-and-shoot camera to an SLR camera has opened up many amazing doors yet is teaching me the fundamentals of photography all over again. The SLR camera gets great results, but it… Read more
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Portrait Photography: My First Studio Shoot
I decided it was time to update to a full SLR camera. My camera has been great for the past seven years. It had a full manual mode which gave a lot of creative control… Read more
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Adobe Creative Cloud?
Many years ago I was very much against the idea of “renting” software. When you buy a product, it’s nice to know that you have “purchased” something so that that item can continually return value… Read more
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California’s Seven Federal Highways
This is a blog post that’s taken 7 years to write. I started taking photos in 2005 for this one. In the United States we have two major sets of federally funded highway systems that… Read more
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Automate Everything
I’m preparing a set of images for upload for a future blog post and started to make the edits in Photoshop but quickly became frustrated with the work required. For each image I had to:… Read more
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Panoramic Software
A number of years ago I did a post on panoramic photography back in 2007. Stiching software has come a long way in the past 5 years. It used to be that packages were free/easy… Read more
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Batch Scanning Photos the Fast Way
Recently I had to take a set of slides exported out of PowerPoint and turn them into slides again. While the process was totally backwards, it generally worked for the purposes of the meeting. When… Read more
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Project 365: Trying it Again!
For those of you who don’t know what Project 365 is, the below link is a good site to learn about it: http://content.photojojo.com/tutorials/project-365-take-a-photo-a-day/ I discovered a lot about myself in the year I did Project… Read more
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Another Year, another project
One of the things I really enjoyed about 2008 was looking back over all of the photos captured in my Project365. I could look back and see something from each day and remember what happened… Read more
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Project365 commencement
I’ve started a new project in November called Project365. The idea behind it is taking a photo a day for one year. Being a leap year, it’s more like Project366, but 365 works better for… Read more
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My Replacement Friend is in
Thanks to the miracle known as eBay my replacement friend arrived about a week ago. What is it do you ask? A gently used Powershot S50. I paid $90 for the camera and $30 for… Read more
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Why can’t I just get the next Powershot S50?
It’s been a great camera. We’ve taken a lot of pictures together and have been a lot of places, but it’s time to move onto bigger and better things. The camera almost always comes with… Read more
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Panoramic Photography
Being one that likes to take landscape shots, at times you just cannot convey the depth of the scene in a 4×6 shot. You can’t really get a good sense for the skyline or how… Read more