Apr 03 2013
I am in the market for a new DSLR camera. I want everything that my Olympus has not been. High ISO, high dynamic range markings, and a wide variety of lenses to choose from. Oh and did I fail to mention Full Frame instead of that 4/3 crop factor? The truth is, Olympus has spent …
Feb 18 2013
When picking a seat on an airplane I will always take the window! Not only is it the most comfortable spot to sleep, but you can get some awesome shots out that little porthole window. One time I was flying from California to Delaware and I saw lightning off in the distance. I really didn’t …
Jan 21 2013
Last week my wife and I went to the Lake of the Ozarks. While there we took a stroll over to the Bridal Cave, thank goodness for Grandparents! It would have been nice to take the wee man with us, but I fear it would have scared him. We had a great tour through the …
Dec 03 2012
We recently had a pretty nice full moon here in the Midwest. My wife went to take the trash out and quickly notified me of its presence. I, of course, had to run and get my camera equipped with the 70-300 lens. I started photographing the moon and realized, these pictures suck! They were pure …
Sep 16 2011
So one thing I hate about long exposure photography is the noise that occurs in the black sky, even at ISO 100. Now take that noise frustration and multiply it times 5 when working with HDR long exposures. How do you fix it? Do you sacrifice the awesome look of the foreground during tone mapping …
Jan 21 2011
One thing that took me forever to understand and use appropriately were f/stops. I couldn’t wrap my head around how f/stops affected my images. After years of shooting in Auto mode (go ahead throw tomatoes at me) I decided to figure out this whole f/stop thing… that was yesterday, just kidding, I have been doing …
