It’s late winter here in Ohio, and while we’ve already had our first tease of spring, it’s cold and damp out today — a perfect excuse to look back to a photo from the middle of summer last year.  This photo also illustrates the “Get Out of the Car” principle.  I had no idea when […]

Owners of DSLR cameras have a dizzying array of lenses available for their cameras (that’s sort of the point, after all), but choosing the right lenses for your bag can be a challenge — especially when you’re on a tight budget.  Among the biggest choices is whether you want a zoom or a prime. Prime […]

Photographers say that the best camera is the one you’ve got with you.  What they mean, of course, is that when you see a subject for a photo, you’re out of luck if you don’t have your camera with you.  When the elements don’t prohibit it, then, I try to keep my camera in the […]

I’ve noticed some pretty dismal image quality in the last couple galleries / blog posts I uploaded.  I’m not sure yet where the image quality is taking a nose-dive, but I’ve clearly got a little detective work to do, as the quality isn’t nearly what it should be by the time these photos made it […]

I was flipping through some shots from last summer in anticipation of the return of warmer weather here.  I found a few shots that were nice, but not spectacular.  Specifically, I wasn’t really excited about the composition on some of these shots, and I thought I’d try some post-processing to change up the look of […]

Here’s a pretty remarkable conjunction of expensive hobbies:  a Radio-Controlled Helicopter camera mount.  I saw a link to a pretty fantastic short movie created with this setup a couple weeks ago.  This movie is technically impressive, having been shot on a Canon 7D suspended from a helicopter flying over the biker, but I think what […]

Last weekend, I went for a hike and stumbled on a little historic farm in the middle of the park.  This farm had all sorts of fantastic photo opportunities, and I was excited to get home and try processing a few in black & white.  I’m not really much of an expert at B&W conversion, […]

Given the multitude of ways that photographers can share photos these days, it’s reasonable to wonder why I’d feel compelled to create my own.  Having maintained a technical blog for the last few years, I’m also aware that there may well come a day when I look back at the beginning of this site and […]

The following is a copy of a message I sent to Darren Rowse, founder of the Digital Photography School, concerning a longstanding DPS bug.  I’ve reprinted this letter here to preserve my thoughts, and to capture some of the community dynamics at work in online communities.  I believe there are some thoughts about the way […]