There are 3 subscriptions that are used in my photography. The first is the obvious – I have a legacy Adobe Creative Cloud Photographer’s plan. This means I still only pay about $16/month after taxes. I get Lightroom and Photoshop as
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I’m doing a photo show! I will be in Ocean City NJ on the Boardwalk from Aug 1 to Aug 3 this summer. The event is called the Boardwalk Art Show and is run by the Ocean City Arts Center. I have
The demise and then undemise of TikTok has been polluting my Instagram feed with lower quality photography information. So here’s what I saw and what is correct. This is based on my experience which goes back to film, where this was a
Every year I try to do a lookback at the previous calendar year and how my photography went. It gives me a chance to reflect on what I managed to do, and get my plans together for the next year. Since
Wait, a photo contest? Today I received an e-mail about a photo contest, with the final deadline quite near. I thought ‘hey, maybe I should apply’ and then spent a few hours getting ready and making sure I followed the rules.
This will be a bit more technical than normal. This is also the post that has taken me the longest to get correct. I think I started this this post 4 years ago. I have a lot of photos. My first
6 months ago when I starting writing this post, I was in an area of Ohio with low cell service. It was nice. But this place is recently on the map and it is getting crowded, But at least for
Prompt: “write a blog post for me on photography” —– Photography is the art of capturing light with a camera to create a visual representation of the world around us. It’s a medium that allows us to freeze a moment in time,
A Look at the Nikon D8X0 Series of Cameras If you don’t want to read too much, just look at the photos and that should tell you why I like to use the more rugged type of camera. Despite how
Common online advice is that it is important to color calibrate your monitors. But if you are like me, you probably have struggled to get through this. In this post, I’m going to talk about my attempts to get my monitors
This post is part 2 in a series about Greenland Part 1 is the intro and can be found here. This post will give some background on how I ended up on this trip, but will mostly discuss the gear required for
Every year I try to do a lookback at the previous calendar year and how my photography went. For previous years posts, see the Year in Review category. It is now 2021 and the previous year was 2020. In 2020, I did
This post is an expansion of my previous post about the compulsion to click the shutter. Much of the inspiration for this post came from a friend who last year went to London for the first time. She made a big deal
I am a baseball fan. And at risk of alienating many of the readers, I am a Phillies fan. I have had the chance to tour the Citizens Bank Park twice. During my most recent trip, I brought my D850, about a
I always like to put a technical look into the year before and try to summarize it in the first 3 months of the following year. The Technical Stuff In 2019, I created 21,940 photos and about 48 videos. This makes 2019
I recently traveled on American Airlines and I discovered something interesting. I live in Seattle, and as a result, I have a Frequent Flyer card for Alaska Airlines. Alaska and American have a new partnership. As a result of this partnership, having
As a quick post, I’m going to mention something that everyone seems to have difficulty with. This is a little math-heavy and I’ll try to simplify it. F/stop progressions. Why do I have to double my shutter speed when going from F/2.0