Breaking the Mold and Rekindling the Fire
It’s time to break my photographic mold, and I’m good with that. For the most part, until now, I’ve been content to use my photography to record the world as I see it. Now I’ve decided to take “the...
View ArticleThe Beauty of the Old
One of the reasons I made the switch to Sony cameras was the amazing imaging qualities of the cameras and the functionality of the new single-lens-translucent (SLT) technology. I’ve talked about that...
View ArticleAperture to Lightroom: Data Migration of Near Epic Proportions Part 1
Okay, maybe that’s a bit dramatic. But it’s sure beginning to feel that way…. I’ve been using Aperture ever since I got my iMac, which was about two years ago. At that time, I moved all of my digital...
View ArticleAperture to Lightroom: The Pleasure and The Pain Part 2
Last week, I posted that I had started to migrate from Aperture to Lightroom, and that I had all my images exported and ready to bring into Lightroom. That import went relatively smoothly. About 42,000...
View ArticleAchieving a Look
Recently, people have commented on some of my photographs, wondering how I achieved the punchy, colorful images. Believe it or not, it’s not that difficult, and in this article I’ll tell you all about...
View ArticleACR / Lightroom Color Profiles for Sony Digital Cameras
Sony shooter Maurizio Piraccini has made color profiles for every Sony (and Minolta) interchangeable-lens digital camera made, and they’re available for free download from his web site. Photoclubalpha...
View ArticleRick Sammon’s Croton-Creative Workshop
This image of Croton Dam was made up of three in-camera HDR images combined in Photomatix, and tweaked in Lightroom 4.2. I’ve spent the past couple of days participating in Rick Sammon’s “Croton...
View ArticleMinolta Maxxum 70-210mm f/4 First Shots Test
As I mentioned yesterday, my Minolta Maxxum AF 70-210mm f/4 arrived while I was away, and I finally got a moment this afternoon to make a few test shots. As with my previous tests, the subjects are...
View ArticleAperture-to-Lightroom Migration Follow-up
It’s been a while since I commented on my switch from Aperture to Lightroom, so I thought I might fill you in, briefly, on how things have gone. In Part 2 of the saga, I had mentioned that I had lost...
View ArticleLet Me Make This Perfectly Clear
A couple weeks back, Rick Sammon posted on his blog about a plug-in called Perfectly Clear. He also talked briefly about it during the workshop we attended. I finally got around to trying it out a...
View ArticleObtaining Perfect White Balance with Gary Fong
Gary Fong explains how to obtain perfect color balance using the Gary Fong Gray Dome from a Lightsphere:
View ArticleHCC-TV Control Room
Some first pictures with the iPhone 5. Facebook readers will want to skip this post if you’re not interested in my first impressions of the iPhone 5 camera — you’ve already seen the pictures. All but...
View ArticleX10 At The Faire
I took the Fujifilm X10 to the Maryland Renaissance Festival today. We had also planned to join a photo walk group at an area farm to shoot some sunflowers, but the weather didn’t cooperate with that....
View ArticleMaryland Renaissance Festival 9-22-13
We spent a fun day at the Renaissance Festival, and I shot exclusively with the X10 again. This time, I played a lot with the “intelligent digital zoom”, and also let the camera make a lot more of the...
View ArticleThe Barn on Westminster Pike – An Exercise in Working the Scene
Today is the first day of my “staycation” that has allowed me time (and energy) for any photography, short of documenting the new garage door that was installed yesterday. I spent Wednesday “making...
View ArticleMorning Mist
Morning Mist in the Worthington Valley My car is in the shop today, so I again got to take a ride through the Worthington Valley area after I dropped Donna off at work. This particular spot is hard to...
View ArticleAfternoon Drive
Along the same route as my Morning Mist, but this time in the afternoon, as I was going to pick Donna up from work. Taken with the Fujifilm X10 through the car window, since there’s really no place to...
View Article9:59:10
9:59:10 … experimenting with the EF-20 flash … wanting to see if it and the pop-up flash would work together … they don’t … but the little EF-20 flash works great 9:59:10 — Fujifilm X10 with EF-20...
View ArticleMaryland Renaissance Festival 10-20-13 – Day of Wrong
Today was closing day, and “the day of wrong” at the Maryland Renaissance Festival. It was a great way to (almost) finish out what has been a fantastic autumn weekend.
View ArticleToo Late for Fall Color? Catoctin Furnace, Thurmont, Maryland
Donna shoots details on this unique bowed-truss bridge. I’ve been in a slump and a funk for quite some time because, other than my recent trip to New York for PhotoPlus Expo, I haven’t made a...
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