Notice: That’s a professional photographer, not a professional model. Yesterday, I espoused the reasons why I don’t consider myself a professional photographer, and quite likely, don’t see it happening anytime soon. I do this for the love of photography and don’t want to turn it into the drudgery of work. It’s nice to shoot what…
One of things I’ve done poorly so far is clean my camera’s sensor. It seems as though I keep finding new ways to screw it up. I started with a Delkin kit that seemed complete. It includes a loupe with a light to view my sensor, several swabs & cleaning fluid, and a little USB-powered…
I had a nice surprise when I came home today. There was a box at the door. I knew it wasn’t my shirts from Eddie Bauer (yes, I’m tragically hip) and I was surprised to find out that my canvas print from Artistic Photo Canvas already arrived. It came in a nice cardboard box with…
I’ve talked about pre-visualization before. Â That essentially means having a vision of the image you want to capture before you click the shutter. Â It’s often quite helpful to have a plan to get the images you want. Â Otherwise, you may come home and lament that your photos don’t really please you. Â I’m not even talking…
This weekend, Thomas Hawk wrote a couple of posts about copyright infringement by Imagelogr.com and Wapfever.com. Â They were basically scouring Flickr and other parts of the Internet to grab images without regard for the author’s copyright, downloading them to host on their own servers ,and then offering those images up to their customers. Â At…
For my trip to the Washington D.C. area last week, I decided to try renting a lens to give me some different perspective. Â I’d never rented glass before, so this was all trial and error for me. Â There are several businesses that serve the rental market and I wanted a way to narrow the field….