Tips, Tutorials, Hacks
Now that Thanksgiving is over and you've started to deflate back to your normal size it's officially festive season. Whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, or Kwanzaa chances are you'll be wanting a nice family portrait to send out to relatives and friends. If you're planning to take this most important [...]
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Tips, Tutorials, Hacks
Thanksgiving is upon us once again. Like many of you, I will be spending time with my extended family, feasting, and of course taking photos. My plan of attack, photo-wise, is to skip posed shots and go light and go candid. That is, I'm bringing only one lens (the 18-105 [...]
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Essays
I went to the beach on Sunday evening to try for some nice shots of the Huntington Beach pier at sunset. Shooting sunsets is always a hit or miss proposition. Sometimes you get beautiful, jaw-dropping colors and patterns in the sky. And sometimes it just gets dark. Around here this [...]
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Grab bag
You've probably heard of TED, the website designed to spread ideas by publishing 20-minute talks by "the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers." I love TEDTalks and often download eight or ten of them onto iTunes and then watch them on long train journeys. In the last couple of months [...]
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Reviews
I really like the Flip video cameras. I reviewed the original Flip Mino back in June and recommended it for anyone who wanted to shoot more than a couple of minutes of video at a time or who wanted to reserve the space on their camera's memory card just for [...]
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