August 17, 2010 Every year, the men in the family (cue Tim Allen-esque Home Improvement style grunts) depart from their women and the rigmarole of daily lives to embark on a quest to re-connect with nature. We build fire, we eat man food, we emit bodily sounds not allowed in most social circles, tell jokes that are decidedly ...
Tags: adirondacks, photography, photos, potd, trip, webinar, workshopphotography, potd June 2, 2010 The May pool of photos that everyone contributed to was quite stunning – the listening and reading audience is quite a talented group and some of the images on here were really incredible. Full of vibrance, vision, color and passion – it was really hard to narrow things down – but I give you here ...
Tags: Contest, Flickr, gallery, Lexar, photography, photosFlickr, photography, potd September 17, 2009 Have you ever seen something that looks so out of place that it catches your eye? Well catch it with your lens too, because contextual positioning of subjects in interesting or unusual/unexpected areas creates visual interest. This is what I refer to as controlling the context of your subject. So many times I’ve heard people ...
Tags: Articles, composition, context, Elements of Control, photography, photos, potdAssignments, composition, Content, education, personal, photography, potd September 9, 2009 As a kind of salute to the Santa Fe trip from this last weekend, I thought it might be fun to do just a photo-sharing day here on the blog so you can see some of the fun stuff from down in Santa Fe. We did a lot of walking around both days, so it ...
Tags: NM, photography, photos, potd, Santa Fepersonal, photography, potd June 4, 2009 First up – another web gallery of water drops – this time with a neutral black background that I developed in Lightroom. I am tellin’ ya – this product is just too cool! Photo management, editing, tagging, and gallery production all in one – what’s not to love? Also up today, a little shout out ...
Tags: Flash, for sale, friends, gallery, Lightroom, photos, potd, XSiContent, Flickr, Lightroom, personal, photography, potd June 2, 2009 Initially, this week was supposed to be the second in a series of software review posts to take a more detailed look under the hood at Photoshop Elements as an alternative to Photoshop Creative Suite. Truth be told though, the more I poke under the hood with Adobe’s Lightroom, the more hooked I get. One ...
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