June 13, 2011 That’s right, it’s finally here. After months of working with colleagues, legal professionals (yes, I enlisted the help of a practicing copyright attorney), peer reviewers, and select members of the photographic community, I am super-excited to announce the latest eBook publication for me here on the website. Far more ambitious than photo tips and tricks, ...
June 16, 2010 I am putting together a DIY project that requires a tool which is rather pricey (roughly $50). So in the interests of keeping costs down, I’ve been contacting local glass cutting shops (although that might be telling too much) to see if they have the tool needed for the job. Specifically, the shop needs to ...
Tags: DIY, personal, ranteducation, personal, photography August 26, 2009 There’s no denying it – we’ve all deleted countless shots both off our camera and off our computers because they were just even to horrible to admit to publicly. And while filtering out the chaffe from the wheat is a good thing, if we don’t learn from our mistakes, we’ll continue to get chaff and ...
Tags: astrophotography, DIY, learning, starseducation, learning August 17, 2009 Rather than go through another hardware review today, I thought I would share a different kind of hardware with you – the DIY kind! Over the weekend I embarked on a little project on building a device to track stars as they move across the sky (even though it’s really the earth that’s moving and ...
Tags: astronomy, astrophotography, building, DIY, photography, projects, star trackerAssignments, education, hardware, learning, personal, photography, Video April 6, 2009 So, I’ve got the Macbook Pro with the factory default 150GB hard drive. Sounds like a ton of space, right? Well, we all know how quickly that amount of storage can get sucked up these days. So, I considered buying a new laptop drive, buying the latest iteration of the Mac OS and just building ...
Tags: Apple, DIY, hard drive, laptop, storage, Western DigitalNews, personal, potd, technical, tips and tricks May 13, 2008 In lieu of a video tutorial today, I’ve recorded an audio podcast. The primary reason for this is because the tip I want to share involves a technique I don’t really have a good sample shot in my library to show you how to apply the technique. So…tune in to this special audio episode for ...
Tags: Backlight, DIY, Lighting, Noise Reduction, podcasttutorial