Entries from June 2008

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Tuesday Tech Talk: Canon ST-E2

This week, the Tuesday Tip is more of a “Tech Talk”.  I got an email from someone inquiring about the Canon ST-E2 asking about how to use it, and what it’s compatible with.  Taking a cue from this, I decided to make it a video tip from the MacbookPro,and set things up to give a [...]

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Monday Minutia: Memory Management

A post over on This Week in Photography got me thinking about my memory cards and the rituals or practices I take to conserve my image data. As they suggested over at TWIP, I do format my cards in camera prior to using. This in-camera formatting optimizes the data sectors and creates folders [...]

Friday, June 20th, 2008

The week in review

I know web links are typically done on Wednesdays, but a little schedule change was in order given the recent news from this corner of the internet.  So, for this Friday, here’s some stuff I read around the web recently:
Brian Reyman of Professional Snapshots has released a beta version of a neat Flash program for [...]

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Hot and Cold Lighting

We all know that tungsten light is a warmer light (think regular light bulbs) and fluorescents and flash produce cooler lighting. While it makes sense, until I read an article by Peter Kolonia in Popular Photography, I have never thought of combining warm and cool light to produce different effects in a photograph. Since I’ve [...]

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Pics, Trips, and Tips

Welcome to week 3 of the “What’s This?” series! Last week I had a close-up shot with some great guesses including carpet, a towel, and a toothbrush - but the answer, as it turns out, is a candle wick!

I had cropped out a portion of it, to give kind of a different twist! [...]