Tag Archives: tips
Road Work Ahead
Although most of my time is gobbled up by editorial duties for Zoom Street, I still accept photo assignments for newspapers and magazines. I recently shot stills and a video […]
The Elements of Style (Skywriting Edition)
Never put too fine a point on it… Found this is the sky yesterday. The image was not edited.
It Takes a Lickin’ & Keeps on Clickin’…
I’ve squeezed the shutter button on my trusty Nikon D90 12,919 times. Bet you’re wondering how I know this. Well. it’s all thanks to a web site called My Shutter […]
“Word” is Just a Four-Letter Word
The other morning while sitting on my deck having a jolt of java, I recalled a line from Neil Simon’s play, Barefoot in the Park, which goes something like […]
Did you hear the one about Freud and Picasso?
Freud and Picasso were sitting on a bench… Unfortunately I’ve forgotten the punch line. But at least I remembered how to use the Content Aware Fill command in Photoshop CS5. […]
Remember…
You can never have enough batteries. Spares for the camera, the strobes, audio recorder, etc., etc. I add batteries to every shopping list so I’m not caught unprepared. When I […]
Merci Bokeh!
Pardon my French. Bokeh is a Japanese word for the soft, painterly, out-of-focus effect provided by a telephoto lens; or the shallow DOF (depth of field) you can achieve by […]
Copyrights & Wrongs
Here’s a tip for Adobe Lightroom users. I’d intended to post this on New Year’s Day, but it fell through the cracks in my memory. Back to the Future If […]
From Grab to Fab
Sometimes I’ll take a ho-hum grab shot and think, ‘Hmm, maybe I can have some fun with this in post.’ That’s when I put on my artist/illustrator cap and dive […]
