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Seeing the light on high-speed sync

Posted in Story, Tips and Notes, tagged , , , , on November 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »

When Joe McNally speaks, I listen. I like his style, and he knows his … stuff. (Hi Mom!)
When he wrote about figuring out high-speed sync, I was intrigued. It’s something I’ve tried to get my camera/flash to do before, but at 1/400th and higher the shutter mirror partially blocks the sensor, creating a black border [...]

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Oregon photo location tips wanted

Posted in Story, tagged , , on October 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Where are the good places to shoot in Oregon? Where is the highest concentration of good photo shoot locations in Oregon?
I’d like to take a vacation there someday, soon, and I’m sure photography will be a big part of that vacation. Also, taking naps, seeing the stars, listening to the ocean, and doing as little [...]

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Workshop Photo Contest

Posted in Story, tagged , , , on October 5, 2008 | No Comments »

The second Aperture Nature Workshops contest opened up. I really want to go to this one - Yosemite, for 3 days, with pros giving me tips from 5:00 a.m. to midnight each day. I really want to go. You can’t just show up, you can’t buy your way in. They are invitation only, with invitations [...]

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Grand Lake

Posted in Portfolio, Story, tagged , , , , , on October 5, 2008 | No Comments »

I took the kids on a Fall Colors Photo Safari through the Colorado mountains last weekend. The fall colors part was a total bust, and stopping at the Georgetown Loop RR on the way home completely ruined the trip by being totally booked up. The only good part of the trip was staying in Grand Lake [...]

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HDR to the rescue, but is no silver bullet

Posted in Photo, Story, tagged , , , , , , on September 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I was looking at some unpublished images I had, and one struck me as a possible candidate for HDR to pull out light and color. I’ve posted the image to Flickr and Aminus3 and received nice comments on it, but it’s not perfect. Here’s a before and after comparison.

The original was dark and flat and [...]

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Lightroom 2 Clarity

Posted in Story, tagged , , , on August 23, 2008 | No Comments »

OK, I mentioned that I would post about the clarity slider and what the new negative clarity can do, and this is it.
There’s not much I can say that a photo can’t say. The slider goes from -100 to +100 rather than 0 to +100 as in Lightroom 1. The negative clarity manifests itself as [...]

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First major disappointment with Nikon

Posted in Story, tagged , , , , , on August 17, 2008 | No Comments »

In the D300 (and perhaps others), third-party lenses such as Sigma, Tamron, and Tokina will only recognize one lens for the AutoFocus Fine-Tune adjustments. I am so bummed.
Most of the time, the Nikkor lens for a given focal length or function will perform at least as well as any comparable third-party lens, but the cost [...]

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Lightroom 2

Posted in Photo, Story, tagged , , on August 2, 2008 | No Comments »

Another notch! The improvements over the 1.x line are amazing.
What amazing colors! But, that’s just the beginning.
This is fun. Just wait to see what the negative clarity can do for portraits!

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Fabulous Lens

Posted in Story, tagged , , , , , , on July 9, 2008 | No Comments »

I am so impressed by this lens, I have to blog about it.
I’ve got the Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D and the Nikkor 85mm f/1.4D, both of which produce outstanding (world-class even!) colors, contrast, bokeh, and sharpness. I consider both to be must-have lenses. Those aren’t the lenses I’m blogging about now, though, those are just my [...]

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The most fun thing I’ve found on Flickr so far

Posted in Story, tagged , on July 2, 2008 | No Comments »

This guy has a whole series of photos of Homer Simpson - great photos! I love it when good photos are also fun photos.

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