Opinion
Adding Ads
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010I spend quite a lot of time and effort maintaining multiple, photography-oriented websites, and it costs me a lot in server fees, software, etc… And in the future- since I sell photos on the side- I might consider placing ads as well. So, first off, I am telling you this because I have a policy [...]
Contests & Egos
Friday, May 28th, 2010I will admit, I’m not much for contests. If I were a recording artist, I would probably not cater to what critics wanted, but rather, what I wanted to do. Same with photography. Of course I have dreams of selling pictures and imagery, so you do need to provide something that people want, but the [...]
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 [...]
HDR- Rights and Wrongs
Sunday, February 28th, 2010I have yet to do a write-up on HDR, but before I go down that road, I want to go on-record and say that HDR is *way* too much overused. There are sites like Stuck In Customs where nearly every shot is in HDR. While I like the effect and think he is a great [...]
Unimpressed
Saturday, January 17th, 2009I was just posting some photos to Flickr, and saw some amazing images in a group I was posting to. I visited the picture, and it was immediately obvious to me that the owner mashed several images together to create a fictitious, if beautiful, scene. Let me say up fron that I have no problem [...]
