Not sure where to begin really – this is all kind of surreal, because I really didn’t think that this milestone would see me where things are today with the blog. Needless to say, the blog has succeeded beyond my…
Tag: photography
How to build a star tracker!
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…
Great Scott, Mat, and Contests, Oh My!
Heh, cheesy headline, but they all seam together on this week’s episode of Learning Digital Photography! Yup, the podcast is done, and for those that didn’t catch my Twitter tease, this week I had the distinct pleasure of talking with…
How I shot Lightning!
Today the post is going to revolve more around a set of photos I took the other day – you see while en route back to the house, I noticed that the clouds were passing over the mountains and the…
Filling the Frame: Flowers, Faces, & Fixtures
Rules of Composition are all around us, and we are reminded of them all the time. Terms like Rule of Thirds are bandied about by everyone (including yours truly, having blogged about it myself here, here and here). Other terms…
Getting into Galleries
For many photographers, the Mecca of accomplishments is to have your work displayed on a wall – and in many cases that means a wall other than your own home. In other words, gallery displays. There are lots of ways…
Hardware Review: The Canon EF-S 18-55mm
After a couple diversion-driven weeks of postings, hardware reviews are back in full swing, and this week the 18-55mm lens from Canon undergoes analysis. Since the lens has already seen a great deal of feedback and reviews in the community,…
Martini Memory
Have you ever had some crazy idea for a photo and then realized it might not be as difficult to pull off as you thought? Something just off the wall, not really something that would ever grow into anything other…
The Moment of Oops
Ever have a moment of “oops”? You know the moments, right? We’ve all had them: That moment when you realized you said the wrong name.. That moment when you realized your ISO was set too high all day… That moment…
The Rule of Thirds Revisited
We’ve all seen the term used, and the approach should not be a novel one to most of us at this point. Heck, I’ve even talked about it here before to a certain degree. But today, I’d like to take…