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  • HDR- Rights and Wrongs

    Sunday, February 28th, 2010

    I 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 [...]

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    Unimpressed

    Saturday, January 17th, 2009

    I 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 [...]

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    Simplicity

    Sunday, January 27th, 2008

    The other day I saw a photo in one of my contact’s photo stream that smacked me in the face. I’ve learned a lot in the last year with the Picture365 project, and learned a bit about framing and composing, but it’s always hard to put into words. This photo easily summarizes that a photo [...]

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