Category

If you’re curious here is a link with test images from the new Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III. On display are: 1. Examples of Fixed Point Photography 2. Examples of available Picture Styles 3. Examples of ISO Sensitivity 4. Examples of Long Exposures 5. Work Examples. Images are full size JPEG so be warned it may take a while to get through the images. The dimensions of each full size JPEG is 5,616×3,744 pixels. The s

Serendipitously I happened to view the Photoshelter blog seconds after various videos of presentations at Photography 2.0 NY were added. I only got a chance to watch Chase Jarvis Turning Frowns Upside Down, but will be back to watch the others. Chase’s presentation was great. I highly recommend viewing it. On the note of Chase… I’ve recently been reading Chase Jarvis’ blog and have found it re

The past few months I’ve been making efforts to minimize my waste footprint by choosing products that utilize less packaging particularly those using various forms of plastic. If products I or my wife use contain plastic we’re now more aggressively checking to see if it can be recycled. My wife has begun a loose phone campaign to inform manufacturers and resellers of “organic” products, as we

SABLE-3, Southern Alberta Balloon Launch Experiment #3, is a very impressive experiment in which a specially prepared point and shoot camera was attached to a helium filled balloon. The results are amazing. The camera was set-up with a tracking device and configured to snap a photo every minute. In 2 1/2 hours the balloon reached maximum altitude of 22 1/2 miles, the edge of our atmosphere! The write up and photos ar

The greatest thing about photography to me is that it truly is an endless journey. To this day I still feel I have barely touched the surface of what potential lies ahead for me in this great medium. Like most photographers we often delve into what successes we have had. Not surprising this proud display of photographic success is what most of us see when we view each others web sites, online forum submissions or pri

One of the longest standing challenges facing photographers has been working with photographic media that inherently has a lower dynamic range than what we, the photographer, see with our own eyes. This challenge has spurred a lot of innovative solutions enabling photographers to push film and digital media to their limit. These innovations have included various darkroom techniques for film, graduated neutral density

So you use Flickr… what else is out there that is going to enable you to get the most out of it? Thanks to Flickr’s API a lot of people have come up with some very interesting tools. As I’ve learned there are a lot of things to discover from GreaseMonkey scripts to external sites that enhance the Flickr experience. Below (in no particular order) are my favorite external sites that enable me to more

If you’re in the San Francisco Bay area I highly recommend attending the following discussion at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley: The Legal Landscape of Street Shooting June 24th, 2007 at 6:30-8:30PM Registration is only $10 and the lecturer should be great. David Greene, Executive Director of The First Amendment Project is an experienced litigator for First Amendment issues, a founding member