-
Photo Software Recommendations
Do you need to tweak your pictures in software? Yes you do. Don’t like sitting behind a computer? Nerd work? You will sit behind a computer to tweak your photos and yes you are a nerd. Click here to see some pretty flowers and my recommendations for photo editing software.
-
A Day at a Local Arboretum
Check out what you can shoot in just a few hours at your local arboretum. Butterflies and ponds.. woooohooooo, aren’t you getting excited. Click here to see what all the raves are about.
-
Pretty Women and Fill Flash
What is better than looking at pictures of pretty women? Why reading about fill flash of course! Click here for more of my nieces and how I used fill flash.
-
Crop vs Full Sensors and Zoom
What does a crop sensor camera do for your zoom lens? What do beer, women, and pixels have to do with sensors? Well just click here to find out!!
-
Killer Eagles and Nailing Exposure
Eagles stabbing fish with their bloody talons! Yea, get the gore here. I got some great shots at Conowingo Dam in Maryland and I like ’em! I also talk about getting the proper camera exposure for birds in flight. Click here for some expert fishing shots.
-
Wedding in Black & White
I attended my niece’s wedding a few weeks ago where I shot some pictures with my Canon 5D Mk II and the Canon 24-105 L f/4.0 IS lens. So to prepare a bit, I checked out some of the on-line forums for professional wedding photographers and noticed that black and white (B&W) photos were usually…
-
How to Transfer 35mm Slides to Digital
What to do with my entire library of 35mm slides? I have roughly 3,000 slides in boxes, and loaded into Kodak carousels. I gotta get them into digital. Here is how I did it, for low cost, and great results. Click here to finally move those boxes of kids, pics at the shore, and bad…
-
Cheesy Home Studio & White Balance
Boy, if only I had a home studio. Lights, reflectors, half-nude models walking around, paparazzi demanding my time, crappy Euro-disco music blasting….. oooooooh… that would be great. So I did my own home studio using nothing but a blanket. Click here to learn about setting white balance in my new home studio!
-
Backup and Storage – Save Yourself!
How to backup your precious data and photos. Also, some tips on what technologies to buy and what to avoid. You need to read this as disaster is just behind you. Look out!!!! AHHSHAHHHAAAAHHAHAAA! Click here to be saved! Yes, all it takes is a click!
-
Pretty Tulips…Watch Your Background
Here is a collection of tulips I shot over the last few years. Most were with my current Canon 5D Mk II, a truly amazing camera, but a few were with my first DSLR, a Canon XTi. Think about what is behind your subject before you push the shutter. Click here to see some tulips,…
-
Fireworks – Tips – Oooo! Ahhhhhh!
Getting some great shots of fireworks has always been on my photo to-do list for many many years. I just never could nail any good ones – until now. Here is how I did it. Click here for the fireworks (and some tips how to learn with beer!).
-
Solitary Pipers, Cropping, and Megapixels
You do need Megapixels: Some bloggers will say more megapixels don’t matter and are more about marketing and sales gimmicks; for the most part, they are absolutely correct. If you are shooting JPGs and not doing much tweaking, you are wasting your money thinking you need a new camera with more megapixels. However, if you…
-
Wood Ducks & Your Point of View
Taking a different point of view often means just getting down to eye level with your subjects. This works especially well with waterfowl, wading birds and shorebirds. And you can do it no matter what equipment you are using! Sit on your haunches, lie on the ground, or, if using a tripod, don’t extend the…
-
Flowers, Backlighting, & Exposure Compensation
Wanna make art? I gave a sure-fire tip for doing this in my blog about depth of field (DOF) here, but there are more little tricks to turning a typical photo into something special. Besides shallow DOF, another trick is backlighting. Backlighting is where your light source, say the sun, is actually in front of…
-
Get Off Automatic! – Beginner’s Instructions – My Secret Magic Settings
This is it. The Rosetta Stone. These are the instructions to get yourself off of Automatic mode. The purpose of this article is to give you a starting point for taking your camera off of Automatic, and getting you on your way to taking purposeful, artful pictures. You can’t do this on Automatic; you must…