Entries from May 2008

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Better luck next time

Heh - I had been so good lately about planning ahead and recording my video podcasts ahead of schedule and just setting a publish time in Wordpress, I got on an automatic pilot routine. When that routine got disrupted from some dental and sleep deprivation issues the other day, I didn’t realize until just [...]

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

In the News - Doo Wah!

Bop bop doo bop doo bop do wow!  Okay, sorry, that’s a bad skit for the great jazz tune from the ’50’s, but nevertheless, whenever I hear the phrase “in the news” I feel compelled to sing that line.  Now, for your real news from CB today:  I’ve got two stories for you, some news [...]

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Back to Basics - Rule of Thirds Grid

After I recorded and started production on this tutorial my mind began to remember that perhaps I had covered this subject before. I reviewed the subjects I have posted over at the Tutorial Resource Center and did not see it covered there, so figure I am not repeating some tutorial I have already done. [...]

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Quality versus quantity

“Okay, I’m done.”
“That’s it? You’ve only been shooting for ten minutes!”
“Yep, got about 50 shots, I should have 4-6 proofs for you from that bunch.”
“So we’re done?”
“Pretty much…I mean I can keep shooting, but there’s really no point, it’ll just be duplicates of the same stuff.”
This was the dialog I had with a co-worker [...]

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Monday “McNallyisms”

Thanks to David Hobby over at Strobist for posting this on Saturday - apparently I have been missing the boat on videos lately as Google has a pretty extensive video archive of well-known people that they get to come out to the campus in CA and speak for a short while. David [...]