Bend to Visualization
The scene just wouldn’t bend to visualization. — Ansel Adams
Photography
A simple gallery of standalone photographs—spirals, sunsets, city streets and waterfalls—each shared with minimal text. It’s my place to let pictures speak for themselves.
A cloudy day is natures giant soft-box. — Layne Kennedy
How Shift Lenses Change your Life ← I haven’t played with a tilt-shift lens before, but seeing some of the cool things you can do with one it makes me want to play.
Where are the best photography spots in Minneapolis?
I would really like to get out and do some fun shooting but would love to find some new spots that have a lot of interesting stuff going on. The Stone Arch bridge is obvious, something a little less obvious. I was thinking that the Midtown Global Market would be a fun place, but …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Where are the best photography spots in Minneapolis?Bottle Cap Tripod
This is pretty cool. While I’m not going to support anyone using plastic water bottles, if you have something that this mounts to it could be really handy. Someone want to make a version of this that can screw into a SIGG bottle? adaptinstyle: why carry around a cumbersome tripod …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Bottle Cap TripodLightroom Tip: Smart Collection for Pictures Without Location
Lightroom 2 introduced a badly needed feature, Smart Collections. I was ecstatic about using Smart Collections to assist with workflow. One of those workflows I’ve been working on has been adding IPTC location data to my photos, essentially setting the Country, State, City and …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Lightroom Tip: Smart Collection for Pictures Without LocationI’m going Dog Sledding, with my Camera!
This will be me in a couple of weeks, except I’ll have a camera strapped around my neck too. Photo by Dennys Bisogno Several weeks ago Tammy was trying to figure out what to get me for my birthday, and she found this trip that she thought was a perfect gift for me. Wintergreen …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: I'm going Dog Sledding, with my Camera!Paging through the B&H catalog. This is the only catalog I ever look at.
Diving in with DNG
I’ve hesitated and resisted migrating all my native Canon Raw (CRW and CR2) files to DNG. However, over the last couple of months I started to do a DNG conversion on import. Today I went all in. I’m doing a mass conversion year-by-year. I’ll write another post on the process and …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Diving in with DNGCanon 5D Mark II Video - Reverie
A couple of weeks ago Canon made a really big splash by announcing the Canon 5D Mark II. I’m a longtime Canon owner now having gone from the Digital Rebel to 20D to 40D now. I’ve wanted a 5D ever since the first one came out since it has no focal length multiplier. The CMOS …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Canon 5D Mark II Video - Reverie