Shooting

In Case You Missed It V2.0

Compelling Links from the Photo Community: August 4, 2011 Zacuto posts part 2 of their Great Camera Shootout. James Estrin posts a touching tribute to Jerome Liebling. The awesome dudes at Photoshelter share this video of Blake Discher talking about negotiating with clients. Selina Maitreya shares her summer reading list. James Pomerantz re-posts this classic […]

Photographing Fireworks

The Fourth of July is right around the corner.  Here in the United States, many folks will celebrate Independence Day, the day we commemorate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, declaring independence from Great Britain, by getting drunk and blowing things up.  So this is the time of year I get lots of questions […]

Time-Lapsed

One of the best of the lesser-known features that most of the Nikon Cameras I use is the “Interval Timer Shooting” menu item found in the shooting menu. This menu item, allows you to program the camera to automatically take photos at an interval that you set. For example, you could set the camera to […]


Inspiration

Many years ago, when I was at the Rochester Institute of Technology studying to become a photographer, I used to sneak off to the library in search of inspiration.  This was before the Internet and before the personal computer. One of my favorite things to do was to watch and listen to a series of […]

Atlanta Botanical Garden Frog

Confessions of an Autofocus Snob

      These fancy Nikon cameras that I like to use have some incredible technology built into them.  Thankfully, lots of research and development must have gone into the autofocus functions of these cameras.  I don’t know what I would do if I had to resort to manual focus or rely on substandard autofocus […]

The End of Kodachrome

Goodbye to an old friend.  The last of Kodachrome.