I have been in a state lately such that I don’t have a lot to photograph nor do I have a lot of time to do it. The weather alternates from clear blue skies to solid gray overcast. I have also been re-evaluating my photos in terms of composition and thinking about how and if… Read More Rules of Composition
I have been mostly sick all week and have started to feel better as the weekend approached. I was eager to get out and hike and shoot some photos. Saturday morning looked to be cool and clear, so I wouldn’t get a cloud show at sunrise, but I would probably have a nice hike anyway.… Read More Small Waterfall
The primary site that I use for posting my photos in an online community is Flickr. I also post to Instagram, Vero, and Twitter sometimes, but I think Flickr gives me more of a photographic community than these other places and it is quite an established and well trafficked site. As 2018 comes to end,… Read More 2018 on Flickr
The weather here is not great and I haven’t been out shooting, so today I am writing about people that I follow online that I can learn from to improve my photography. I follow several photography related YouTube channels, a podcast, and some websites and check them on a weekly basis and I would like… Read More Following Content Online
I have been wanting to get a better filter kit for my lenses – better than just the screw on round filters that I have been using. I want to be able to use the 100mm slide filters, as this offers an opportunity to use graduated filters and to stack filters. A YouTube landscape photographer… Read More Lee Filter Kit
There is a fun effect you can achieve with a zoom lens called zoom burst. This is where you crank the zoom during an exposure to give a motion blur out from the center of the frame. Being trapped in the house on a rainy weekend, I thought that I would try my hand at… Read More Zoom Burst
The University of Texas has an observatory in west Texas called the McDonald Observatory. The observatory hosts several star parties a month, in which guest can come see the stars, look through telescopes, and enjoy the dark sky. The kids had a day off of school, so I took the clan half way across Texas… Read More Star Party
One problem that I frequently have is that my lens or sensor gets a little dirty. This is one of the hazards of landscape photography. Often the specs or spots are small and out of focus and not noticeable. But shooting stopped down can increase the focus depth in your image and really bring out… Read More Seeing Spots
After to going to Hong Kong for fun, I was in Penang Malaysia for work. Most of my time was there for business and I didn’t really plan any photo shooting outings. Most evenings, when I made it back to the hotel, it was dark or raining or both anyway. But, one evening I was… Read More Boats on a Gray Day in Penang
I decided to look back at what I did in September that I am happy with. Perhaps if I do this for enough months I can get an idea about whether or not I am improving. I went back through the photos that I made in September and picked out the ones that I thought… Read More September Review
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