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Tomorrow I am leaving for a long awaited vacation to Greece. It’s a family trip, but that doesn’t mean I am not intending to take as many photos as I can reasonably do, so most of my carry-on luggage will be filled with photographic equipment. As before any photo trip, I make a checklist of everything I need to carry. My …
HIlarious and spot-on video by Zack Arias. I’m putting this out also because, no earlier than this morning, I read this article by Kirk Tuck, which pretty much says the same. Size matters, but not as much as many “full frame” shooters think.
I recently had the pleasure of visiting Venice again for the Carnival, a great festival where people like to dress up in elaborate costumes and wear masks in the streets. It is also a wonderful opportunity for photography, but can be a daunting experience if you don’t come prepared, due to the sheer number of possible subjects and the huge …
I know it sounds stupid, but I didn’t know about this Ligthroom feature until a couple days ago… so I decided to do a short video explaining it, just in case somebody else wasn’t paying attention when they announced it 😉
This is the fourth and final part in my series about image metadata and copyright. You can find part I here, part II here, and part III here. So you’ve been conscientiously adding copyright and contact information to all of your images as I suggested in the previous articles, but what happens to their metadata when you upload them to …
This is the third in a series of posts describing how I use Adobe Lightroom to manage the metadata of my photos. Part I is here and Part II is here. In the first parts of this series I’ve shown how to ensure that your photos always contain the correct metadata pertaining to copyright ad contact information. In this final post, I …
I was chatting with some friends a few days ago when the subject of copyright, medatata, and watermarking came up and somebody mentioned the importance of clearly stating your copyright in metadata. After the chat, I went back to Lightroom, re-checked all my recent photos and found some who didn’t have a copyright notice, for some reason. Thankfully, it is very …
A few days ago, I had the unfortunate idea of engaging in an online debate about the effect of focal length on perspective in photographs. By now you’d think I would have learned that those exchanges rarely result in anybody changing their minds, even when presented with unequivocal visual demonstration of how wrong they are. Anyway, I had all but …
… or how composition rules. Or not. Didn’t feel much like shooting this week, the Muse wasn’t visiting much or at all, so I asked her why and she told me she was feeling the burden of me having to think so hard about all those rules and that I should just let go and play! If you set out …
By way of the Photoshelter blog, I just came upon the work of Ryan Matthew Smith. he is the photographer behind most of the pictures contained in the book Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking. If you have an interest in food that looks and tastes great, you should probably buy it, but given my limited penchant for …
