Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category
Review: LightCompressor – HDR App for Mac
HDR, or High Dynamic Range, photography has been all the rage the last few years. With the advent of digital photos and post processing software, this has become very easy to create these images. There are a number of purpose built applications that do nothing but HDR, and do it very well. LightCompressor falls into what [...]
Review: SanDisk RescuePRO Recovery Software
It’s Christmas Day. Everything is crazy. Driving to visit family. Making sure everything is packed & all the gifts are ready to go. Add to that a sick baby, and you have a recipe for photographic disaster. In the middle of setting up lights & testing exposure at the grandparents house, I decided to reformat [...]
No Excuses: Part 2
This is a continuation of my No Excuses series. Through the series I’m discussing situations that I have encountered on a somewhat regular basis while working as an event photographer. When shooting events, it’s mostly about rolling with the punches and making something out of nothing. You rarely know the site before you arrive, and [...]
Review: PhotoJoJo Camera Phone Macro/Wide Angle Lens
The other day someone gave me a $50 Amex gift card for a project I helped them with. It was burning a hole in my wallet, so I started looking for something {mainly junk} I could spend it on. I was on Twitter and saw someone post a link to the PhotoJoJo.com version of the [...]
Give your family’s Thanksgiving photos that extra Oomph!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING (Tomorrow) !!!!!!! Just for you fine folks, I thought I would bump some articles I wrote last year on how to take great holiday photos using flash. The first is how to use an off camera flash setup. The second is how to bounce your flash, just incase you don’t have all the [...]
No Excuses: Part 1
As a rule, photographers are not always presented with them most amazing places, light, subjects, situations, weather, etc. to shoot. If you shoot formal events like I do, then you know that very often you are presented with some of the worst shooting situations possible. You show up to the venue to at 2pm to [...]
CameraBag 1.9 Update adds Reprocessing
One of my very favorite iPhone apps, CameraBag, has added their Reprocessing functionality to the iPhone version of their App. Just look at my Daily iPhone Photo pages and you will see examples where I’ve used this app time and time again. In true CameraBag fashion, the user interface is super clean. So much so [...]
iPad Camera Connection Kit: Not iPhone compatible
The title says it all. As you know, I’m iPad-less till either tomorrow or the following Friday. That didn’t stop Apple from teasing me by delivering my iPad Camera Connection Kit today. I preordered it right after the first iPad was delivered earlier this month. Since I didn’t have an iPad to plug it into, [...]
5 settings you should know how to change on your Point & Shoot camera
Most people buy point and shoot (p&s) cameras because they are small, simple, and make pretty decent photos. There are a few options on point & shoot cameras that are easy to access and can help make your photos that much better, but you have to know what they are and how to use them. [...]
Back to Basics: Shooting again with my first SLR
When I first started shooting, I was using film and a Minolta X700 exclusively. My father had one, and learned how to use it with his help. I shot a lot with his camera. When my grandfather passed away I inherited his X700. I shot with that camera and it’s 50mm f/1.4 lens for [...]
