Smartphone Photography
I was recently asked to give a talk on photographing jewelry with a cellphone camera. This has become an interesting exercise in exploring the limitations of small cameras! Cellphone cameras{{1}} …
Book your cruise for May 2014
Update: This cruise has been postponed. New dates will be announced... Mark your calendar for May 15, 2014. Why? We will be cruising through the Mediterranean and taking photos.…
Sidney Ocean Centre
I went back to the Shaw Open Ocean Discovery Centre yesterday to try to get some better photos of the critters there. I think it will take a few trials still...…
My old Camera
I gave my older DSLR to my daughter{{1}} so she can learn more about photography. I thought I could teach her what I know, but when we went out last…
My New D600
This review will be broken into two parts, this one on the camera and and the article following on image quality. I bought myself a new Nikon D600 last Thursday,…
Why I like Goldstream Park
(This is the post I started to write when I noticed I had written 99 posts on this blog) The main part of Goldstream Park (that is, the banks of…
How to test a lens…
I am a bit different from most photographers (no smirking in the back row....) in that I do not believe there is such a thing as a "bad" lens. You…
retouching
In one of the LinkedIn groups I follow, Davesh asked for help with this image taken with, I am guessing, a cell phone camera with a dirty lens: with a…
Sports Photography
Yesterday I ended up taking photos of some motorcycle races. I would not call myself a sports photographer by any means, and my camera is not really up to the…
Inside the Ordinary – Lesson 2
3D Compositon For this second lesson, we are going to talk about composition. From Wikipedia: composition is the placement or arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a work of…