Back from Yosemite
Just got back from a wonderful three day vacation at Yosemite National Park. This is my fourth time to Yosemite – and my first in the fall. Wow… the park is a remarkably different place in the fall. The lack of crowds was certainly nice, but it was like exploring an entirely new park.
Lots of […]
Long overdue update on my Nikon D80
You may recall that I received a loaner Nikon D80 from Nikon earlier this year, part of their “Picture This” campaign. Absolutely no conditions were placed on the loan – it was an opportunity to put a sophisticated camera in the hands of a decidedly unsophisticated photographer. And I’ve pretty well lived up to that […]
Naperville Riverwalk Amphitheater
Took a walk this morning with Robin and the kids, and I loved how the shadows of the trees showed up in contrast with the brick labyrinth pattern at the Riverwalk Amphitheater. (Original photo, with larger sizes, is here.)
Disclosure: the camera I’m using for the next few months, the Nikon D80, is a loaner from […]
Photography lessons
Saw the full moon last night over our back deck, and remembered reading in The Digital Photography Book that there were some cool ways to use Photoshop to take two shots of the same image, then combine them to show the moon in its detail while simultaneously showing the surrounding area. (Scott documents the process […]
Nikon Picture This
As you might recall, I got back into “real” photography this past Christmas when I received a Nikon D50. The last four months have been a ton of fun as I’ve re-learned how to frame shots, tweak the aperture to force perspective, and play with ISO and shutter speed to get just the right shot.
Then […]
Your interesting pictures on Flickr
This is really cool: Flickr’s “interestingness” algorithm has always intrigued me (interested me?), and someone has cobbled together a way to check to see which of your pictures are considered “interesting” by the Flickr gods. Go check it out and have a blast. (If you’re, um, interested, mine are here.)
Learning digital photography
A few weeks ago I asked for pointers to help get up to speed on digital photography. Now that I have a “real” camera (with each day, I find yet another incredible feature of my D50; if you’re in the market for a digital SLR, you could do much, much worse), I’m really eager to […]
