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Monday, August 2nd, 2010I’ve had my Stock Photography site, www.fivestarphoto.net, online for a little over a year. I haven’t really spent any time publicizing it much yet, so no surprises I have not made that many sales. In fact, last night, I made my first one from that site! I do sell photos through my 3dphoto.net site- that [...]
Hold That Thought… an App for that
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010Being the avid photographer that I am, I am always having ideas of pictures I want to take- some simple, some complex. These thoughts can occur at any time- when I’m going to sleep, at work, at a movie, or anywhere at any time. Sometimes later I would then try to remember what it was [...]
The Power of RAW
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010As long as I have been taking digital photos exclusively (5 years now), I have largely avoided the RAW format. For starters, the file sizes are 4-5x bigger, requiring that much more flash memory and hard drive storage. Secondly, RAW files don’t look good- you have to manually work them over for a while to [...]
Ask For Gift Cards
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010If you’re like me and you have a family that insists on giving gifts at Birthday’s and especially Christmas, even if it is cash or gift cards, I usually opt for Gift Cards. I will say up front, the idea of exchanging what amounts to cash at Christmas is somewhat odd, but if one, being [...]
The Human Element
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010When you involve people in your photograph, no matter how they are represented, they will generally become the subject of the photograph. I recently read a publication by Petersen’s Photographic called Digital Photography Guide. It is quite good, with tons of examples, very much like how I write articles in this blog. One article talked [...]
UV or not UV?
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Yesterday I had a sales guy try to pressure me into a UV filter for a 10-22mm wide angle zoom lens. In the days of film, these were commonplace, though I personally never used one. Film, at least, was sensitive to the UV portion of the spectrum and could at higher altitudes, make the picture [...]
Step Up/Step Down Rings
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010In my insane drive to push macro as far as I can and as cheaply as possible, I bought these two sets of rings from Fotodiox on eBay. Together, all 14 rings cost me a total of $15 + $4 shipping. What they do is step up, or down, from diameters of 77mm to 49mm. [...]
Super Macro 3D Setup
Thursday, January 14th, 2010In the Super Macro bit I wrote last week, I mentioned a bit about the setup I used to get that super-close-up of table salt, at 280x. Here is a photo of that setup. From right to left above: 28mm wide angle lens, in my case- an old Canon FD mount lens (by Albinar) Adapter [...]
Renting Camera Equipment
Monday, January 11th, 2010Do you have a nice camera and lenses that you’ve had for a while, but want to try something new? Do you have a point-n-shoot, but would like to try out an SLR, to see if you might like one in the future? Well, if you’re a cautious person with throwing around your money on [...]
Geavity
Thursday, July 30th, 2009I found a new site yesterday that might have some potential. It’s called Geavity, at www.geavity.com. The tag line is “What’s in your bag?” You set up a profile and list your camera gear, and then you can link up with other like-equipped photographers, as it has a social aspect to it. I’m going to [...]
