D.I.Y Macro Extension Tube
On May 24th 2009 all of my camera equipment was stolen from my car. Thank God for Renter’s Insurance… It covers all assets in your vehicle too! It was a blessing in disguise as I upgraded my camera body and all lenses to the higher grade glass. I had to...
2010 Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse
I jumped on the band wagon of photographers all over the world last night and shot for the moon. The last Lunar Eclipse to occur on Winter Solstice was 1634 and the next one won’t be until 2094, I had to take advantage of the once in a life time experience. It...
Niagara At Night
Before you pack your tripod for a vacation or business trip, make damn sure you remember your you put your ball head! I had to hand shoot these images braced on a freezing cold metal hand rail in 13 degree weather with dinky fleece gloves on. I reiterate, make damn...
Sick Of The Rectangle? …Cross The Border!
I am a fan of breaking the rectangle. 95.99999999% of the photographs you see online are rectangles, with the occasional Square or Circle. Now, I am certainly not the first to put a border around an image, and I most certainly won’t be the last. Sometimes...
Van Gogh? Not Quite, But Close!
Van Gogh is rolling in his grave with the adaptation of the Pixelbender plugin for Photoshop CS 4 and CS 5, click the previous link for your install. Once again Adobe blows the top off the brain and comes up with an amazing way of manipulating images with a few quick...
Layers: 2nd Edition… THANK YOU SIR, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER!
<—– Click the book to buy it, don’t even read my review… seriously, you are wasting time you could be spending reading “Layers”… I have been using Photoshop since the days of Adobe Photoshop 5.0, roughly 11 years. The bulk...
Niagara Falls and the ORIGINAL Buffalo Wing!
Every once in a while Uncle Sam sends me somewhere for training that is pretty cool! Buffalo, New York was last weeks destination, in this case it was more than cool…it was flippin’ cold! While we were in class for the bulk of the day learning some new...
Matthew Wolin, H-D-R 3-6-5!
I was stumbling around HDRspotting and I found Matty Wolin! Matty hailing from Chicago Illinois is an avid HDR photographer. Head over to his blog or his Flickr Photostream, you will see what I am talking about. Project365, his personal project to publish a...
My Favorite HDR Ever!
Went to Half Moon Bay for a Christmas Card photo shoot and decided to capture the wife in her prime! Lest you forget, Life is amazing!
